How to support toothbrushing, hair brushing, and other hygiene and care tasks
Daily care routines like toothbrushing, hair brushing, washing, and dressing can be challenging for children with sensory sensitivities or emotional regulation needs. This session explores gentle, practical strategies to make these tasks more comfortable and manageable for both children and their caregivers.
We’ll look at ways to reduce stress, build trust, and support independence—whether your child finds certain textures overwhelming, struggles with transitions, or simply needs a little extra reassurance.
Join us to share experiences, learn new approaches, and discover tools that can help make care routines feel safer, calmer, and more positive.
Each in-person course will have a max of 15 attendees and will be in a Workshop format.
The course will run 10am-11.30am and there will be lunch provided afterwards as well as time for questions for the in-person course. When booking, please do let me know of any dietary requirements. Bookings close a week before the event to allow planning.
We apologise – but these courses are not suitable for children and there is no childcare available.
Accessibility
– The ground is all one level
– There are disabled toilets and a Changing Place
– There is plenty of parking around the back of the building (including Blue Badge spaces) and more on the streets around the building.
Please do let us know if you have an access requirements.
About Juniper Tree Therapy
Nurturing Development • Supporting Connection • Sharing Tools
Juniper Tree Therapy is a Specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapy team, supporting children, young people and their families across Leeds. We are passionate about supporting those with a wide range of unique needs, including learning difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, physical and motor impairments, and sensory and emotional difficulties.
We consider how an individual’s nervous system perceives sensory information; from the world around them, and from within their own body. We then consider how this impacts on the way that children engage in daily life, and how they are able to connect with the important people around them.
We consider the family as a whole, and we are passionate about ensuring that the child or young person is their own ‘expert’ about their experiences, strengths and areas of challenge. We are also able to interpret their bodily responses, and the perspectives of their close family, friends, and other Key Adults.
Using a Sensory Integration and Sensory Attachment Intervention lens helps us to understand what is beneath a presenting difficulty. This means we can create recommendations and guidance to help to provide support within each child’s individual family life. We focus on providing repeated opportunities for regulation and connection across the day, to help the brain to ‘rewire’ in response to regulating experiences.
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