Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy

Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) is the process of relearning cognitive skills that have been lost or altered as a result of damage to pathways in the brain or neurochemistry. If skills cannot be relearned, then new ones have to be taught to enable the person to compensate for their lost cognitive functions.

OUR APPROACH

What is Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy?

Education

Focus on awareness and personalised education for client and family members.

Process Training

Focus on retraining of cognitive skills through direct practice of skills.

Strategy Training

Focus on identification and implementation of strategies to compensate for lost skills.

Functional Activities

Focus on practical real life tasks to improve relevant and purposeful skills.

how does crt work?

The Process of CRT

Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy follows a structured process, tailored to each individual’s needs. Fatigue management plays a huge part in the success of any rehabilitation program, and BIS Services are experts in this area. Our CRT Therapist and CEO, Natalie Mackenzie provides training and education around fatigue management for clients and professionals.

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Initial Assessment

The process begins with a detailed evaluation of the individual’s cognitive abilities, emotions, and behavioural needs. This comprehensive assessment, alongside a comparative assessment with family or friends guides the development of a personalised therapy plan. Recommendations reports are provided.

Goal Setting & Values

Personalised short- and long-term goals are established with input from the client, family, and the therapy team. These goals focus on areas most critical to improving day-to-day life, and those that are most important for the client, based on their own values and motivations. BIS Services use GAS to monitor outcomes.

Practical Sessions

Practical, real-world activities aimed at restoring cognitive function. These may include memory exercises, attention-building tasks, problem-solving tasks, and structured emotional regulation strategies. Throughout, feedback and positive reinforcement serve to aid insight and awareness, whilst boosting meta cognitive skills.

Ongoing Monitoring

We monitor progress consistently, ensuring that rehabilitation plans evolve based on how the individual responds. This flexible approach ensures continued, sustained improvement. Scaffolds and strategies should be regularly reviewed for uptake and habitutation, and modified as skills improve.

Meet Our CRT Therapist

Natalie Mackenzie is the Founder & CEO of BIS Services, and develops and delivers our training, as well as still holding her own client load. Natalie is a Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist, Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer, Clinical Hypnotherapist and ICF Accredited ADHD Coach.

Natalie won the NR Times Neuro Rehab Leader of the Year 2024 and is committed to driving forward service development beyond our own provision. She has won a number of business awards for her innovation and leadership skills. Her passion still remains a clear vision for improving the lives of individuals who have been affected by brain injury.

Natalie is also known as The Brain Injury Therapist, providing online support and education online across the world, delivering courses and one to one cognitive rehabilitation programs, both online and in person. She is also author of the Fatigue Management Journal and speaks internationally on ADHD & Brain Injury.

Testimonials

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The report and recommendations Natalie produced to share with my work at the end of our 12 sessions was incredibly valuable to help them better understand how my brain works and how to get the best out of me. HR and my Line Manager created a tailored development plan based on the recommendations which helped me settle into my role and improved my performance significantly. It also helped improve my working relationship with my Line Manager as before reading the report he had limited understanding of ADHD and how it affected me and we had struggled to see eye-to-eye on a number of occasions.

CLIENT

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I fully understand now what is happening within my brain, as wasn’t given an insight from the hospital/OT. I am able to use the tools provided, in my daily life should I require them. I now don’t feel quite so broken/damaged, as understanding Neuro fatigue means I can manage it. I am improving all the time