Treehouse Theraplay

09/09/2025

Neurowild always produces amazing resources for parents/therapist/schools and kids etc. Positive identity is so important to be our true Self

02/09/2025

Love this! So informative for everyone

18/08/2025

Amanda is away this week at the International Childhood Trauma conference, obsessing (fangirling?) over meeting all the amazing people that drive the way we work. So excited to be here learning more and more!

The morning session perfectly aligned with everything I believe is essential when working with children who have experienced trauma. The key message that resonated most deeply? We need to centralize CURIOSITY over expectations to truly open pathways for connection, communication, and healing.

A quote that really struck me: "Anxiety isn't designed to be regulated by thought." This speaks so powerfully to why body-based, expressive approaches like play therapy are so effective - we're meeting children where their nervous systems actually are, not where we think they should be.

28/06/2025

Sharing from 'School Can't Australia' Thanks for making people feel heard and seen with School Can't.

We’re told:
Attendance first.
Endure school.
Be there every day.
Push through—and one day, one day—you’ll see the benefits.

But what if school is the thing hurting you?
What if a child is not thriving but surviving?
Masking. Freezing. Panicking.
Sitting in silence while their heart races.
Coming home and falling apart.

What if they’re scared?
Or sad.
Or lonely.
Or bored.
Or overwhelmed to the point their body says: enough.

Is that really something we want them to endure?
Day after day. Year after year.
All the way to graduation?
Will that deliver the outcomes we’ve been promised?
Or will it leave them broken?

Attendance doesn’t equal thriving.
And distress is not a foundation for learning.

When students can’t attend school, there is always a reason.

They are not choosing to stay home.
Their nervous system has already chosen for them.
The way back is not through pressure or punishment.
The way back is through safety.
We must put the student experience at the centre.

If we want students to learn, we must ask:
What does school feel like, in their body?
Not in the lesson plan.
Not in the attendance record.
But in their lived experience.

Let us create school environments where the student experience is one of:
- Relational and physical safety
- Belonging and inclusion
- Agency and voice
- Purpose and engagement
- Care, trust, and success

This is how we support recovery.
This is how we rebuild capacity.
This is the foundation on which students learn.

Because until a child feels safe, learning can’t begin.
And if we care about children, we cannot keep pretending it can.

27/06/2025

Love an iceberg info graphic!

21/06/2025

On point this one...its difficult as adults to stay regulated when our cups are empty as well. Its important to fill your cup and remind yourself that if your child is having a hard time and you are overwhelmed as well that you take 5 minutes to regulate your self or of course practice some co regulation, do something together, a milo, water the garden, colour, try laugh like lion, horsey breathes!

13/06/2025

Proposed changes to Ndia get us all nervous, but this appalling. I fear for our specialised allied health professionals and participants this will impact. I hope we can all be noisy and stop this from happening. We are a remote region and the impacts to travel cuts will be devastating to all.

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What impact will the new NDIS recommendations mean for providers and participants?

First off, are we as a profession, less valued than other allied health providers? Further, paediatrics is a specialised scope of practice requiring extensive additional training to do the job WELL.

CHILDREN ARE NOT JUST “SMALL ADULTS”. If experienced paediatric clinicians leave the NDIS, children with complex and potentially life threatening conditions will be left in the hands of new grads with little to no paediatric experience.

Children who are culturally and/or socioeconomically disadvantaged WILL DIE without access to experienced clinicians. Thats not a “maybe”.. that is a FACT.

Put simply - with 10 years experience as a complex paediatric physio, with not one, but two degrees.. my current annual profit is substantially less than my first year out of uni as a new grad.

To make it feasible to continue to deliver services, particularly in areas like Cairns, you can expect to see the following:

1. Outreach clinics will no longer be sustainable due to 50% cut in provider travel time.

- Children who do not live in a major city or town will lose the very few paediatric physios currently servicing the area. Unfortunately I’ve witnessed the catastrophic impact on a childs health and function as a result of services being delivered by physios who primarily work with adults. Paediatric physiotherapy is a unique and specialised field of practice, requiring substantial additional training and experience due to the unique needs of children. This is especially important when it comes to diagnosics, implementing early critical preventative measures and predicting future needs for children who will be undergoing surgery, are at risk of losing function and those with progressive, life limiting conditions.

- These outreach services are substantially more expensive to deliver due to higher insurance premiums (based on annual use >20,000km), additional venue hire, vehicle wear and tear, etc.

- It also limits capacity to accept clients in Cairns to offset the loss, as whole days are committed to servicing these smaller communities.

2. Less flexibility to deliver the most suitable, effective physiotherapy services with respect to modality, location, child safety etc.

- Limited scope to chose a venue based on the needs of the child, as it will no longer be feasible to block of provider travel to suitable venues further from the office. This will be due to the need to use that time to accept new clients.

- Less choice and flexibility for parents to choose a time that suits their needs, as dedicated blocks of time will be dedicated to seeing multiple children at one venue on an allocated day and time.

- Children and families who experience socioeconomic disadvantage will face FURTHER difficulties accessing services, as it will no longer be feasible or sustainable to accept a larger proportion of clients with complex extenuating circumstances affecting their capacity to travel to/from appointments. I strongly believe ALL children deserve access to appropriate support from an experienced clinician, regardless of socioeconomic status, family structure, cultural diversity or rural/remote location.

3. Providers will be required to increase the number of participants accessing the service, reducing the amount of time available to tend to the needs of children with complex needs in a timely manner.

- YOU think waiting 4 months for a wheelchair to be approved, 3 months for it to be delivered is bad? Wait until I can no longer dedicate my weekend to completing 25 page AT forms.

- Greater reluctance to accept complex cases (my favourite) due to the amount of additional (and often probono) time that goes into doing the BEST JOB POSSIBLE to get them the critical supports they need. Doing “bare minimum” is not who I am, and it is never who I will be. There is a lot of sacrifice to keep true to those values, but there is nothing left to scarifice at this point, except the roof over my head.

Shane Knuth MP Bob Katter Anthony Albanese Michael Healy MP Terry James Amanda Camm MP Mark Butler MP Jenny McAllister Emma McBride MP Rebecca White

11/06/2025

Always choose kindness 💜💐

24/05/2025

Oh bluey! We love you 💜https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AWv717fZN/

To the mama whose heart has been through a lot lately —

Breathe. Just for a moment. In and out.
Let this be the reminder you didn’t know you needed.

Love yourself a little extra right now — not because you’ve failed, not because you’re broken, but because you’ve carried the weight of so much that no one else can see. The invisible heaviness of all the “almosts,” the “not todays,” the late-night worries, and the endless “what ifs” that you quietly tuck away while still pouring love into everyone else.

You’re healing — slowly, quietly, deeply — in places words can’t reach.
And even though the world may not clap for you, and even though no one hands you a trophy at the end of the day, what you’re doing matters more than you’ll ever know. You wake up, show up, and give pieces of yourself in a thousand little unnoticed ways — making lunches, soothing tears, folding clothes, offering hugs, sacrificing sleep, bottling stress, and choosing love again and again.

That’s not small. That’s not ordinary. That’s everything.

Mama, you are growing in the quiet.
You are healing in the chaos.
You are rebuilding while still raising tiny humans — and that is no small feat.
You’re the safe place, the soft landing, the steady hand in the storm.

Yes, there are days when you feel like you’re barely holding it together.
When the noise is too loud, the mess too much, and the expectations too high.
But even then, even in the middle of your exhaustion and overwhelm —
you are showing up. You are loving. You are trying.

And that effort? It’s sacred.

To the mama who feels unseen:
I see you.
To the mama who doubts her strength:
You’ve made it through every hard day so far — that’s proof enough.
To the mama who thinks she’s not doing enough:
You are doing more than most could ever understand.

You are doing your best. Let that be enough.
Even if the dishes aren’t done.
Even if the to-do list is unfinished.
Even if today felt more like survival than success.

Your love is showing up in a million quiet ways — and your babies feel it.
They won’t remember the clutter or the chaos —
they’ll remember your arms around them, your voice singing at bedtime, your steady presence.

So hold yourself with grace.
Be gentle with your heart.
And know this:
You don’t have to be perfect — you just have to be present.

🤍 You are enough. You always have been

07/05/2025

In anticipation for Mothers day, happy mothers day! Remember to look after you. 💐

24/04/2025

** sad to say that NDIA have since removed this off their website, don't think it was on it for more then 24 hours! Very disappointing with the confusion around NDIS

There has been quite a bit of confusion and concern for a while now about how NDIS plans have 'stated' supports and not having flexibility i.e. choice and control. This new information is very reassuring about how funding within a stated support category is flexible.

18/04/2025