Skills for life through play
SERVICES
We offer a range of innovation services to meet the needs of individuals, families, and community groups. Take a look below for an overview.
Occupational Therapy
We believe it is the birthright of every child and family to feel seen, heard & valued in daily life.
We are a specialist trauma-sensitive service that celebrates diversity.
We are a whole person service providing a vast array of approaches to support overall growth & development. Our dynamic approach to intervention support goals being met in an efficient, meaningful and enjoyable way.
Our passion, love and belief in what we share is evident in our services, team and environment. Our occupational therapists have extensive experience in working with children of ALL Ages, Abilities, and Diagnosis.
Each child and family are unique and have individual needs and circumstances. Our family focused, play-based approach supports each individual child and family unit to develop skills for life.
We know that primary carers are their child’s first teachers and value coming together & collaborating with all supports within a child’s life.
We foster meaningfulness and function into our services in a safe and nurturing environment. This supports each child’s unique magic to shine for all to feel, see and enjoy.
Areas include:
- Infant: Settling, sleeping, security & attachment, early play, engagement, feeding, sensory exploration, movement & milestones.
- Toddler: Social connection & expression, sense of security, strength & stability, problem solving & adapting, gross & fine motor skills, emotional regulation, sensory integration, cooking & eating, dressing & grooming, coordination, pretend play & resilience.
- Child / Adolescent: Sense of self in social connections, shared emotional thinking, independent adaptive fine & gross motor skills, sensory & emotional integration, resilience, focus & attention, autonomy, self-care, functional movement patterns & stability, movement flow, coordination, cooking & eating, sensory integration, handwriting, spelling, reading, written expression, behavioural responses, & health & wellness.
- Beyond Trauma: Sense of safety & security, grounded connection, playful interactions, reorientation, body organisation, emotional & sensory integration, body, mind & spirit connection, empowerment, adaptive behavioural responses, and health & wellness.
Occupational Therapy Assistant Service
Our Allied Health Service supports generalisation & flow within our sensory integrative, trauma-sensitive clinic.
Saturday, one on one service.
We value supporting balance and integration across therapy and life.
This service can complement or act as a transition for occupational therapy services. The purpose is to extend independence with less specialised facilitation.
Allied health services integrate:
- Playful connection – weaving play, connection & meaningful participation in functional skills for life
- Individualised approach – therapeutic goals and the intervention approach is guided by a specialist trauma-responsive therapists to meet the child’s needs and abilities.
- Quality & safety – we collaborate with other therapists, educators and support workers to aid integration of skills across environments
- Growth & Development – a powerful service to begin to generalise skills for life across areas of social connection, self-care, movement integration, sensory & emotional integration, & learning & attending.
Allied health assistants facilitate plans that are developed by the mentoring specialist OT’s within Active OT for Kids, ensuring intervention is guided towards empowerment and skills for daily living.
Fee $86.79 / Hour – NDIS claimable
Ocean Therapy
The ocean is an environment enriched in sensory experiences where there are opportunities to:
- Move with Meaning
- Feel & Express with purpose & meaning
- Connect to Self, with Others & with Nature
Ocean Therapy is individualised to the child’s needs, supporting meaningful participation & development of functional skills across areas of:
- Mental
- Physical
- Emotional
- Social
Ocean Therapy provides a window of opportunity to develop foundational skills associated to challenges with social, emotional & behavioural responses (often as a result of trauma) including:
- Postural activation & stability
- Movement fluency around the body axis
- Shifts & Regulation of physiological states – breath & heart rate
- Security in self
- Resilience
- Sensory & Emotional integration
This integrative approach supports individual’s overall health & wellness whilst diving deep into aiding their foundations of body, mind & spirit; guiding skills for life.
We offer one on one services & surf camp therapy groups. All services were designed & are carried out by our specialist trauma-sensitive paediatric occupational therapists. All hold additional surf coaching & ocean safety training.
The surfing culture values being present in a single moment, sharing time & place with each other at one with nature. Our service integrates this value & supports an individual to break through their barriers to share the ‘ALOHA’ spirit.
Camp Reset
Our Camp ‘Reset’ provides specialised services for children who present with trauma responses as well as for their parents/carers.
The aim of the camp is to support building functional capacity skills for life throughout playfulness, adventure, curiosity & connection; growing beyond trauma.
Camp Reset is a 5-day intensive, individualised program designed to enhance children’s independence, functional capacity, and social engagement in daily life. This program aligns with individual’s goals, focusing on skill development across: self-care, social, motor, emotional and rest domains. Camp Reset is a capacity building occupational therapy program in a social community environment.
We organise, we plan, we carry, we cook, we clean, we learn, we create, we walk, we surf, we climb, we share, we sing, we problem solve, we tune in, we reflect, we action, we build & we find our confidence. With the 1:2 ratio, the specialist occupational therapists, support each child to access their abilities, advocate for their needs & action from a place of security & independence.
Rural Telehealth
Every child & family deserve to feel supported & receive the care & services to aid growth, development & healing.
Our specialist therapists not only travel to rural communities to support education, intensive therapy & program development, we also offer online telehealth services.
Our services include:
- One on One Assessments & Therapy
- Parent / Carer Support & Coaching
- School & Clinic Workshops & Training
- School & Clinic Intensive Therapy Support
Telehealth Service Support Development of Children’s:
- Security & Attachment
- Sense of Self & Confidence
- Focus & Attention
- Impulse Control & Adaptive Function
- Behavioural Responses
- Sensory & Emotional Regulation
- Social Connection
- Connection to purpose & Meaning
- Learning
- Executive Functions
- Health & Wellness
Contact us to dive deeper into planning the service to meet your needs.
Sports Precision & Recovery
Enhance your efficiency & precision in sports performance through an integrative body, mind, spirit approach to function.
Sport is an extension of play and development across the lifespan. Sport teaches many foundations for integration across all areas of life. From motivation, organisation, discipline, moving through emotions, navigating through space, strength and coordination, teamwork, shifting states of regulation and resilience.
Active OT for Kids is at the forefront of providing integrative services, based on current research, including innovative approaches and resources. Our service delivery is guided by a wellness & multi-system growth framework. Focus includes considering:
- Sensory Integration
- Movement patterns & fascia release
- Connection of the body, mind & spirit
- States of regulation & the role of playfulness & attachment
- Integration with nature
Our approach supports:
- Re-integration post injury
- Sports performance
- Efficiency & precision
- Vestibular concussion
- Recovery & longevity
- Injury Prevention
- Mental, physical & emotional wellness
The sports precision team at Active OT for Kids is here to guide elite athletes of all ages.
Offering one on one & team services. Contact us to set up a meeting and begin the journey towards peak performance, efficiency, & wellness across life.
Mental Health & Wellness
Innovative mental health service that is playful, freeing & promotes individual’s to be active in their journey.
In recent times there has been a rise in challenges with mental health & wellness alongside increased awareness of this. These challenges are having significant impact on everyday participation, engagement, performance, relationships & emotions in daily life.
Active OT for Kids is at the forefront of providing integrative services, based on current research, including innovative approaches and resources. Our service delivery is guided by a wellness & multi-system growth framework. Focus includes considering:
- Sensory Integration
- Movement patterns & fascia release
- Connection of the body, mind & spirit
- States of regulation & the role of playfulness & attachment
- Integration with nature
Our approach supports:
- Living with mental health Diagnosis
- Daily living skill performance
- Motivation & engagement
- Social connection
- Embodiment & empowerment
- Mental, physical & emotional wellness
The wellness team at Active OT for Kids is here to guide children, parents & athletes.
Offering one on one & group services. Contact us to set up an initial consultation and begin the journey towards health & wellness across life.
Healing through connection
Active OT for Kids is at the forefront of providing integrative services, based on current research, including innovative approaches and resources.