Alison Self has over 30 years experience as an occupational therapist working with people who have sustained a concussion or brain injury and have cognitive impairments. She has experience working in the UK and Australia. On moving to Western Australia in 2002 she joined a specialised brain injury rehabilitation team and re-developed the occupational therapy programmes for the service. Since 2007 she has run her own independent practice providing cognitive rehabilitation for people recovering from concussion and brain injury.