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🌟 Empowering lives through expert OT
⚖️ Medicolegal Education for OTs & Solicitors
📍 Servicing Brisbane, Ipswich & GC
👇🏼 Visit our website & discover how OT can help you
29/01/2026
They don’t teach you this about OT careers, but it matters long term.
OT isn’t one pathway, it’s many:
• medicolegal
• paediatrics
• community
• leadership
• consultancy
Your degree is the foundation, not the limit.
What actually shapes growth isn’t grades or how fast you build a caseload...It’s the environment you start in.
Supervision.
Exposure.
Role clarity.
Support as complexity increases.
This gap is why we built our grad program at MLEA. Not to fast track output, but to support sustainable practice from the beginning.
👉Curious about alternative OT pathways?
Follow along! We share them openly.
28/01/2026
Content isn’t going to make itself! 🤳
27/01/2026
Vocational potential is rarely black and white.
When someone can’t return to their previous job, it doesn’t automatically mean they can’t work at all. OT-led vocational and functional assessments look beyond the diagnosis to uncover what is realistically achievable.
We examine:
✨ transferable skills
✨ functional capacity
✨ workplace accommodations
✨ task demands and barriers
✨ role-specific requirements
This level of nuance is essential for fair, evidence-based decision-making. Whether it’s for legal matters, NDIS planning, return-to-work pathways or clinical learning for OT students.
Because understanding work potential is more than a yes/no answer.
It’s about mapping the safest, most realistic path forward.
👇 Want more info on our vocational or functional assessments?
23/01/2026
Most families don’t seek Occupational Therapy because something is “wrong”.
They seek support because everyday tasks are taking too much energy — for their child and for them.
Paediatric OT helps identify what’s making daily life feel hard and puts practical strategies in place to support participation at home, school and in the community.
☎️ If you’re unsure whether OT is the right next step, we’re always happy to help guide that decision.
22/01/2026
Meet Emily – Our Community OT!☀️
Hi, I’m Emily! I’m a Kiwi Occupational Therapist who studied in New Zealand before relocating to Brisbane in 2024 to begin my OT career. I love OT for its person-centred approach and the opportunity to support people to improve their everyday lives in meaningful, practical ways.✨
I’ve worked as a community OT under the NDIS, supporting clients aged 3 to 70 with a wide range of diagnoses.
My experience includes completing assessments and delivering therapeutic interventions focused on enhancing daily functioning, building capacity, supporting community participation, and accessing assistive technology. I have a particular interest in neurological and physical conditions.
I’m passionate about working collaboratively with clients, supporting their goals, and helping them build the skills and supports they need to live life more independently and confidently. 🌱
I’m excited to be part of MLEA and continue delivering client-centred, practical OT that makes a real difference in everyday life.
21/01/2026
You’ve been warned!! ⚠️
20/01/2026
Something as simple as how a person gets dressed can change the direction of a case.
ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) form the foundation of medicolegal assessments, yet their power is often underestimated.
At MLEA, our reports go beyond symptoms, showing the ripple effect of daily activities on work, home, and community life. Because true clarity comes from understanding function in context.
Engaging participants takes more than good planning, it takes continuity.
Our newest blog breaks down how OT–AHA collaboration helps keep therapy active between reviews.
Read the full blog → https://tr.ee/J2UUCmgwVt
15/01/2026
Can anyone else relate? 😂
14/01/2026
Strong medicolegal outcomes rely on more than medical facts.
OT reports bridge the gap between health evidence and legal decision-making by clearly articulating functional impact, capacity, and lived experience.
Clarity is what enables fair outcomes.
13/01/2026
Feeling overwhelmed by the small things usually isn’t about motivation, it’s about mental load.
Routines give the brain structure. They reduce decision fatigue, support regulation, and make everyday tasks feel more manageable, especially when anxiety, ADHD or sensory sensitivities are in the mix.
📑We've created a free weekly planner — simple, flexible and designed to support real-life routines (not perfect ones).
DOWNLOAD via the link below and start with just one small routine 🤍
Sometimes, structure is the support.
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MLEA was founded in 2011 by respected Occupational Therapist, Vanessa Aitken. Her approach of impartiality under all circumstances and her 30+ years of clinical practice, quickly established her widespread reputation for high-quality expert clinical opinions, supporting fair settlements nationwide. As demand grew for her services, Vanessa added more specialists to the team. Covering everything from respiratory disease, to spinal injuries, to whiplash, infants to old age.
Understanding clients need 100% reliability from their assessment reports, Vanessa built a team of highly qualified clinicians. Our experts provide reliable clinical opinions to lawyers, insurers, NDIS, fund managers, trustees, and employers. Whether our opinion helps achieve a fair legal settlement, facilitates a disabled person's access to NDIS support, or enables an employer to recruit the right person for the job; you can rely on us for integrity, honesty and expertise.
We work closely with clients to understand their personal barriers and help them redefine what they are capable of. Our goal is to understand capability and expand capacity to help people live their best possible lives.
APPLYING FOR THE NDIS: Compliant with NDIS requirements, we can assist you to clearly define and measure the impact of your disability on your everyday life with evidence.
PREPARING FOR YOUR NDIS MEETING: When your access is approved, we will then assist you to prepare for your first planning meeting. This service includes providing you with all the necessary details of the supports and related funding you need to achieve your goals and to ensure you are able to move towards your goals.
RENEWING YOUR NDIS PLAN: Our highly credentialed team will provide you (or your carer and/or family) with expert guidance and the understanding you need to prepare you for your NDIA meeting. We will educate you, review your NDIS plan and supply the necessary supporting evidence you require to remain on the scheme with sufficient funding to achieve your personal and life goals.
