Our OT Services
Belinda and Megan are highly experienced Paediatric Occupational Therapists offering supports that incorporate knowledge from developmental science, interpersonal neurobiology, the neurobiology of trauma, neurodiversity, sensory processing and integration, and attachment-based research.
Offering comprehensive and meaningful assessment, in close partnership with parents and educators, we are able to make sense of where underlying developmental and relational challenges are showing up in the everyday routines and activities children need and want to engage in.
ASSESSMENTS
We tailor the assessment process specifically for your child, to discover their strengths and understand their unique needs, using a variety of assessment tools and approaches. This can include a combination of formal/standardised assessment tools, along with targeted clinical observations, and informal observations within your child’s natural daily settings.
Gathering information and completing assessments in this way allows us to provide the therapeutic supports that are meaningful and relevant for you and your child.
Common areas of assessment and support include:
Parent-Child Relationships
Play and Social Engagement
Emotional Regulation
Attention and Arousal Regulation
Sensory Processing and Integration
Movement and Balance (including body awareness, postural control, motor planning, fine and gross motor skill development)
Self-Care Skills (Dressing, Hygiene routines)
Fussy eating & Mealtime Challenges
Sleep
Toileting & Toilet Training
School and Classroom Engagement
Handwriting
We offer services across a range of settings including home visits, education site visits (child care, kindergarten, school), and clinic-based sessions, depending on the unique needs of each child and family. Provision of support through telehealth (phone or video call) is also available.
We offer a spacious sensory-motor clinic allowing us to tailor individualised therapeutic supports within a well-equipped and sensory-rich environment that invites play, creativity, and movement.
As Occupational Therapists, where we identify a child may also need additional supports, we are committed to communicating this with families and supporting them to understand the pathways in accessing those supports. We are committed to working collaboratively with those services, to offer wrap around supports in the early years.
are you an educator?
Providing attuned and responsive supports to children and families in the South East for 18 years, Megan and her team know the importance of communicating and collaborating with significant adults in a child’s life across home, community and education settings.
We particularly value the partnership that is developed in working closely alongside educators across all Early Years settings, from child-care, kindergarten and primary school, regularly delivering workshops and projects that continue to deepen our shared knowledge and commitment to rich and inclusive education and support for the children in our community.
Mentoring, Workshops and Professional Development can be offered with the following areas of focus:
Understanding and supporting neurodiversity, developmental trauma, and sensory processing differences in education settings
Using Relationship-based approaches to support arousal and emotional regulation and facilitate developmental progress
Understanding and supporting toileting challenges in early education settings
Building Educator knowledge in the foundations of handwriting development and what gets in the way of progress and confidence in the early years
We have immediate access to an incredible breadth and depth of knowledge regarding child development and relational approaches now. This is a wonderful thing! However, we find that for this information to be supportive of parents and educators in the day-to-day moments with our children and students, we need to provide support that allows them to make sense of this in a meaningful way, with language that is relevant and ‘brings the information to life’.
Supporting knowledge and confidence in using these understandings in everyday moments across early care and education settings can be provided in 1:1 mentoring, coaching, small group reflection or larger group trainings.
Circle of Security
This program was developed to bring to life over 60 years of attachment-based research in a way that allows families to make sense of what their children need, so they can experience healthy and strong relationships.
Megan is registered Facilitator of the program which supports parents to make sense of those needs, as well as become aware of what may get in the way of seeing and meeting those needs in the everyday chaos of loving and parenting children. Megan has over 17 years supporting parents in this way and provides a unique group-based experience that supports early relational health, as well as self-compassion and community connection to parents. Being immersed in the life of working with children and families and raising 3 children of her own, Megan brings humour and realism to this setting.
For more background information and parent resources visit the Circle of Security website.
Sitting on a waiting list?
Sitting on a waiting list?
Wait List Wonderings, Worries and WTFs’
As a team, we are passionate about the role the parent-child relationship plays in the everyday health and well-being of both children and parents, and the relief parents can experience when they are able to access meaningful and relevant knowledge to allow them to understand and support their own child’s unique relational and developmental needs outside of the therapy room.
We are working on a new option for families on any waiting lists for OT support! This group-based support will bring parents together and allow them to gain early support and understanding of their child’s developmental needs, making sense of how they can be supporting these needs in everyday life, whilst they wait for individual support and therapy. Topics that will typically be covered include arousal and emotional regulation, play and social engagement, motor skill development, sensory processing, and toilet training.