Naturally Kids Allied Health

06/06/2025

🌱 Did you know our wonderful team travels to Ingham regularly to p̶l̶a̶y̶ w̶i̶t̶h̶, I mean, provide therapy to all the amazing kiddos in the Hinchinbrook?! 🌱

We'd love to work with your child to 🤩

ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕔𝕥 𝕦𝕤 for more information about how we can support the children in your life 👀

Thanks for the write up Hinchinbrook Life 💚

Supporting kids with fun, play-based therapy! 🎉

Naturally Kids Allied Health brings expert occupational therapy to Townsville & Hinchinbrook, including Nature-Based Therapy and Sense Rugby, Empowering every child to thrive at home, school & beyond.

Learn how they make a difference: https://tinyurl.com/28d68z7j

14/05/2025

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨. Families are where it all begins—love, safety, connection, and care.

But things have changed. Support networks are stretched. Most parents are working. Kids have fewer chances to just play. And families are expected to do it all, often without enough support.

At Naturally Kids, we support families by offering strategies and creating space for you to focus on what matters most—🅔🅐🅒🅗 🅞🅣🅗🅔🅡 🌱💚

14/05/2025

A fabulous visual for ways to support your child during a meltdown.Thanks to The Sensory Spectrum for the reminder. Original post credit to Calm the Chaos Parenting

This is a good reminder of what can help your child shift during a meltdown.

06/04/2025

🌱✨️ Exciting Announcement ✨️🌱

Naturally Kids is thrilled to share that our Founder, Director, and Senior Occupational Therapist, Kymberley, has been appointed as Treasurer and Board Member for Nature Play QLD!

Nature Play QLD (NPQ) is dedicated to increasing the time Queensland children spend in unstructured outdoor play and connecting with nature.

"Nature Play is a vital ingredient for child health and wellbeing, and I’m excited to be part of the movement supporting this for all of Queensland’s children—especially those in North Queensland," says Kymberley.

Congratulations, Kymberley! This appointment is a testament to your deep commitment to child wellbeing and nature-based therapy. We’re so proud to see you championing Nature Play at a state level, and we can’t wait to see the positive impact and benefits for children across Queensland.

Kymberley Walker, Nature Play QLD Management Board Treasurer.

Kymberley is an Occupational Therapist, former legal practitioner, and a passionate advocate for children’s play. As the founder of Naturally Kids Allied Health, she supports neurodivergent children and their families across Townsville and North Queensland. In 2022, she pioneered Joey’s Mob, Townsville’s first nature-based occupational therapy program, creating inclusive spaces where kids can thrive outdoors.

A mum of two, Kymberley understands the importance of unstructured play in nature and champions opportunities for all children to connect with the outdoors. Her dedication to this mission has led to her appointment as an inaugural board member of Nature Play Qld, where she hopes to drive change for children’s development and wellbeing through play at a broader, societal level.

Kymberley Walker

02/03/2025

💚 Clean Up Australia Day 💚

Today, Kymberley and her family headed down to the den (our Joey's Mob space) with bags and nets in hand to pick up litter.

Since our sessions take place on public land under a permit from Townsville City Council, we always carry in our equipment—swings, mats, and play items—and ensure we leave the space better than we found it.

Other people enjoy this beautiful area too (as they should!), but sometimes that means a little extra cleaning up to keep it safe. The recent floods also washed in more debris, so Clean Up Australia Day was the perfect chance to give back.

But really, caring for our spaces shouldn’t be a once-a-year event—it should be a habit. We only have one planet, and it’s worth looking after.

🌏 How do you help care for the places you love? Let's all do our part! 🚮💚

26/02/2025

It’s true!

26/02/2025

Absolutely 💚 this. If you were ever wondering why we don't teach social skills and why each member of our team will advocate for ND affirming spaces. voices and experiences matter.

Summer Farrelly we couldn't agree more.

P.S. 💡perhaps we need to be teaching "ND social skills" to neurotypical peoples...

25/10/2024

This week is OT Week. This year's theme is "80 years of connection" and our team has been celebrating all the ways we support children and families to connect with each other.

It has been 80 years since the development of the first Occupational Therapists Club in Australia (now known as Occupational Therapy Australia). In all that time we have stayed true to the importance of connection for our wellbeing - with each other, families, the community and the environment.

At Naturally Kids we are proud to provide opportunities for our team and clients to build positive connections with others through strengths-based, respectful relationships.

26/09/2024

🧠 Mental Health First Aid training 🧠

In addition to supporting children, a huge part of our role is to support the family, friends, and the therapeutic team around these kiddos. Recognising when someone needs help can be tricky as can knowing how to help.

To help our team better support you, across today and tomorrow, we will be off-line undertaking our Mental Health First Aid accreditation.

The lovely Julie-Ann, in our admin team, is available to take your calls if you need anything. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing everyone when we are back on deck on Monday.

30/07/2024

💛 International Day of Friendship 💛

In 2011, the United Nations named today (30th July) as the International Day of Friendship to recognise the importance of friendships to our mental health and wellbeing. Friendship promotes understanding, connection and peace between individuals, cultures and countries.

For neurodivergent people, friendships can be hard. Special interests, RSD, different communication styles and sensory processing needs can make social interactions, let alone making friends, trickier. Finding your tribe and being around people who both understand and champion you is a powerful way to improve self-esteem, self-perception, wellbeing and, ultimately, health.

We love facilitating opportunities for Townsville kiddos to explore friendships in their way in a safe and super fun way!

💛🌱🏉✨️

24/07/2024

🏅Challenge Games 2024 🏅

Wishing all our friends a wonderful time at Challenge Games today and tomorrow. We love the opportunity for participation and inclusion that it offers for the NQ school kiddos. The timing this year, with the start of the Olympics days away, is just an added bonus!

Some of our team are down there volunteering, so please make sure to say "hi" 👋 if you see them.

Let the ribbon collecting begin!

16/07/2024

If you come to the clinic this Friday, 19th July, don't be alarmed if your OT is wearing their Pyjamas! 👕👖🥱

This Friday, 19th July, our team is participating in National Pyjama Day. This event is to raise vital funds to support kiddos in the foster care system. We consider ourselves fortunate to be able to work with and support many children in kinship and other care arrangements.

If you can, please consider sponsoring our team (or your specific OT) while we raise funds to support children in care https://fundraise.thepyjamafoundation.com/st/7710/12983