Manprit Kauur (she/her)

Meet Manprit

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Occupational therapy has always felt like the meeting point of art and science to me; creativity and imagination sitting alongside a rigorous understanding of the body, mind, and environment. That balance is what drew me in, and it's still what keeps me here.

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My interest in pain care isn't just academic, it started with my own chronic pain in my early twenties, which quietly took over my work, my hobbies, my routines, my mental health, my relationships. The turning point for me was learning to hold two things as true at once: that my pain was real, and that my future wasn't fixed because of it. That dialectic - acceptance and change, together, not one before the other - is still what shapes how I work with people today.

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I like to look beyond symptoms. I work with people to get clear on where they actually want to be heading, back at work, back to a hobby they've shelved, or back to feeling more like themselves,  and then we build the path there together. This is where the creative side of me shows up in the room: I bring a playfulness and curiosity to therapy that's shaped around each person, because the strategies that actually stick are the ones that feel like they belong to that person, not a plan lifted from a textbook. I love working with people who are willing to try something new and run with it and that's usually where the real shifts happen.

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I hold a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy from Glasgow Caledonian University and have practised across acute hospitals, nursing homes, and community health in Glasgow, Singapore, and Australia, across neurology, orthopaedics, geriatrics, neurodivergence, and mental health.  Working across such different healthcare systems and cultures has also shaped my practise. I've learned that there's no single "right" way to understand or respond to pain, and I bring that culturally-informed lens into how I listen and what I recommend.  

 

I've since trained further in motivational interviewing, seating and positioning, and return-to-work planning, with a growing focus on mental-health-informed practice.

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Outside work, I'm usually being dragged around by my recently rescued ex-racing greyhound, chasing the last of the sunlight, or tracking down whatever live music or theatre is on.