About

Therapist Experience

Through a wide variety of professional and life experiences, I have built therapeutic skills across occupational areas such as:

• specialist services in schools - adapting the curriculum for learners with Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Global Developmental Delay; ensuring safe travel in vehicles; supporting access for complex physical and/or complex behavioural needs through fine & gross motor activities, sensory programs, hydrotherapy, ergonomics and switch-adapted technology

• community-based and in-hospital therapy for neurological, sensory and physical barriers to daily activities, including upper limb function, functional cognition and visual perceptual assessment and intervention

• identifying and linking families in with relevant funding and supports, and training the teams working with them - advocating with reports and meetings

• managing teams of therapists, families and therapy assistants to deliver programs and rehab in the community, most recently as National Manager for Better Days, an injury rehabilitation company based in Auckland, New Zealand

• conducting, publishing  and presenting academic research on barriers to daily life faced by people from refugee backgrounds: https://doi.org/10.1177/1539449216668648; https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1754279; Occupational Therapy Australia conference, Perth, 2017

• teaching English as a second language locally and internationally, alongside accreditation in Community Development work