OT Time Kids Therapy

30/09/2025

👏 I’m excited to share that I will be presenting at the Cowgirls Gathering this weekend at Kilkivan Showgrounds as part of the Human and Animal Well-being program.

💎 You can catch all the gems about OT in equine environments at 1pm on Saturday Oct 4th in the presentation tent

🙏 Or join me for our mindful morning moment at 7am in the pavilion Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

❤️ Looking forward to a weekend surrounded by horses and those that love them.

Photo credit Shear shots by Jayne https://www.facebook.com/share/16QRfcpLGk/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://cowgirlsgathering.com.au/?srsltid=AfmBOorr1lNEG9vD4IQ64Pmj5dZUfIAeiA6t1Y4ll_CJQXblBieotJDE

16/09/2025

🪄 Pure Magic!

🛶 We built the boats.

🛖 Constructed the village.

🎣 And we fed the people.

🪵 I remember creating miniature cattle yards with my brothers in the bush while waiting for dad.

🗃️ I remember I had a miniature doll I kept in a matchbox with a tissue for a blanket.

🫖 I remember having tea parties and making mud pies with my imaginary friend little Janice.

❤️ Can you recall your most magical play experiences from your childhood?

04/09/2025

🍏 There’s more to eating than putting food in your mouth, chewing and swallowing.

Some kids just have to start here:

👀 Can you look at the food?
👃 Can you smell it?
🖐️ Can you touch it?

If trying new food is tricky, start there.

🕵️ Explore food. It doesn’t have to be at the dinner table.

🗣️ Talk about the sensory features food. Wet, dry, crunchy, soft, warm, cold, orange, green, red.

🙌 Play with food

😊 No pressure to eat. Just fun.

🌳 Being outdoors naturally encourages relaxation and attention. Can you see what other skills we’re developing?

❤️ Food exploration and play is just one of the skills we work on in our outdoor and Telehealth sessions.

🍃 Message me if this speaks to you or you’d like to be supported through tricky life skills with your child.

22/08/2025

🍃 Outdoors.

🏴‍☠️ Where imaginations run wild.

🙌 Senses are stimulated.

🔨 Skills are developed without effort.

🌈 And you’re lost in the moment.

🌳 Fully present and engaged.

N.B. I’m afraid the crew of this vessel had to walk the plank 😜

20/08/2025

It’s natural to love fidgets.

It's the little things we hold onto that mean the most! 🦦💕

14/08/2025

🌿 Now Taking New Clients – OT Telehealth & Nature-Based Therapy in bayside Brisbane. 🌿

Helping kids thrive, connect & grow – in the space that works best for them!

💻 Flexible telehealth sessions from home
🌳 Engaging outdoor therapy in nature
✨ NDIS, Medicare & private clients welcome

📩 Message me today to chat about how I can support your child.

13/08/2025

🌟 Equine OT Telehealth style. A Trip to the Vet!

🩺 Our play brought up all sorts of challenges.

🆕 Unexpected travel and transitions to a new places and people.

💡 Strange sights and sounds.

🩹 Examination and treatment.

❓ Does this sound familiar to any experiences your child may have had?

🌟 Through play we can explore relationships, sensory processing, planning and problem solving in a non threatening way without the intensity of focus on the child themselves.

22/07/2025

🤩 Some days are just awesome!

🐝 Sessions outdoors really are the bees knees!

🗺️ First up, map making…. So good to bring our awareness to where we are in the world.

🎶 Then making music…..nothing like finding the right stick for the job.

🐴 And finishing with a lap around the hobby horse cross country course…… living out our horsey dreams in plush. Alas no pic for that adventure. I was catching my breath.

01/07/2025

🇻🇳 I never would have thought that my speechie friend Katy and I would be working together in Vietnam.

⭐️ We first met and worked together as new grads in the bush and for the next week or so are supporting children and teaching staff at a wonderful organisation called Children’s Hope in Action.

🖥️ I first found out CHIA a few years back when I supervised a Telehealth student placement for them so it’s been wonderful meeting everyone in person.

⭐️ They’re doing amazing work for children with disabilities, health, education, water and housing for disadvantaged families.
Check them out.

01/10/2024

ATL Member spotlight: OT Time Kids Therapy

Deanna Williamson is based in bayside Brisbane offering the peaceful and empowering experience of OT with horses. Equine-assisted occupational therapy may boost your child’s confidence, develop communication and social skills and improve motor and self-care skills.

Find OT Time Kids Therapy in our ATL National Directory: https://animaltherapies.org.au/membership-account/profile/?pu=deannawilliamson-otbigpond-com

Website: www.ottimekidstherapy.com.au

30/07/2024

🐎 Meet Patches. Our very first horse. She was blind in one eye. To get on we waited until she was eating and we’d swing a leg over her neck on the blind side, shimmy down and then turn around once on her back. I don’t remember anyone teaching us to do that. We were a bit wild and free to work things out for ourselves. Not a helmet in sight and outdoors most if not all of the day. And patches munched away happily as we crawled all over her.

🌳 We have a natural affinity with nature and animals because we are part of the natural world. We are drawn to it. It makes us feel good. This even has a fancy name, the biophilia hypothesis.

📺 Seems obvious doesn’t it, but it’s not the way we tend to live our lives. Running around in cars, looking at phones or computer screens and the time we’re outdoors we are focused on a goal like getting fit.

🙌 I’m absolutely certain that I was drawn to studying and practicing equine assisted therapy for the benefits it can bring for physical and mental health. You can be absolutely present and paying attention to your surroundings and the horses and get the oxytocin kick from connecting with another living creature.

❓ If you could choose 1 thing to be mindful of when outdoors what would it be?

🌳 You could notice the detail in a tree. The bark, the way the branches emerge from the trunk, the shape of the leaves.

🍁 Or perhaps listen for birdsong. Or set a mindfulness timer and when it sounds look out of the window and take a few mindful breaths.

😉