OT Time Kids Therapy

29/10/2025

Happy OT Week!

✅ Yep cooking is an occupation!

✅ Play is an occupation!

16/10/2025

🪵 Clapping sticks today. Seems simple enough but so many skills developed in this one little activity.

✅ I need to plan the steps to take to do this task and adjust my plan if it’s not working out.

✅ I need to plan how I hold my hands and grade the pressure to manipulate tools like saws, peelers and knives.

✅ I need to make adjustments to support my nervous system if sensations like sawdust falling on bare skin or kneeling on grass is too much.

✅ I need to coordinate both sides of my body while I hold something unstable with one hand while I use my other hand to use a tool such as textas to decorate.

👌 But first of all I need to feel safe with a regulated nervous system so I can be present, learn and pay attention.

🌳 So good to achieve that by being in nature doing what you love. ❤️

15/10/2025

Today’s episode direct from my waterfront office in Lota.

✅ We planned

🗣️ We communicated

🪵 We collected

🪚 We sawed

⛺️ We structured

🌟 We created!

❤️ Hands, heads and hearts.

🌳 OT in the great outdoors…
☺️ Living it!
🥰 Loving it!

☕️ If you think this might be your child’s cup of tea message me. Happy to chat.

06/10/2025

🙏 A big thank you to the organisers of this year’s Cowgirls Gathering for inviting me to speak about incorporating horses and nature in my work as an OT.

❤️ A particular thank you to my lovely friend and colleague, Amanda Hancock, head of human and animal welfare.

🐕 Amanda is renowned for her many talents including scent training for dogs and horses, snake handling, manifesting, and is always prepared with a range of potions for bites, stings and grazes. 😉

🕺 And of course, her on demand 80’s dance moves.

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.