Occupational therapy Team
Fraser Clarke
Lorraine Johnson
Lorraine Johnson
Fraser is an experienced Occupational therapist who has worked with disability equipment for the last 20 years. Fraser has specialised in manual and power wheelchairs and uses who need complex supports. He has managed teams of senior therapists in a range of specialist organisations in Perth.
Lorraine Johnson
Lorraine Johnson
Lorraine Johnson
Lorraine Johnson is an Occupational Therapist with over thirty years’ experience working in the disability sector – in paediatrics, neurological rehabilitation and for the last two decades in complex seating/positioning and mobility.
She is passionate about helping individuals to find the right assistive technology and strategies to as
Lorraine Johnson is an Occupational Therapist with over thirty years’ experience working in the disability sector – in paediatrics, neurological rehabilitation and for the last two decades in complex seating/positioning and mobility.
She is passionate about helping individuals to find the right assistive technology and strategies to assist in achieving their goals and maximising independence. Lorraine was also part of an international research team in developing a risk assessment for sitting acquired pressure injuries.
Lorraine was a dance teacher in her younger years and still enjoys fitness classes and ‘breaking a move’ with her young grandsons.
Jeimer Ng
Lorraine Johnson
Lehanne Rabie
Jeimer is an occupational therapist with a deep-seated passion for working alongside individuals and families irrespective of complexity to achieve their personal goals. He adopts a holistic approach throughout his practice and has a special interest in the way individualised assistive technology and sincere social inclusion can be used
Jeimer is an occupational therapist with a deep-seated passion for working alongside individuals and families irrespective of complexity to achieve their personal goals. He adopts a holistic approach throughout his practice and has a special interest in the way individualised assistive technology and sincere social inclusion can be used to help people find meaning within their unique circumstances.
Jeimer also has a passion for child development, is driven to meet the varying needs of families, and has a keen interest in the way creativity, storytelling and sleep can positively influence a child's behaviour, social engagement, and overall independence in daily life.
Lehanne Rabie
Lehanne Rabie
Lehanne Rabie
Lehanne is an Occupational Therapist with a special interest in supporting children and families living with disabilities. Helping them develop independence and accessing support systems to enable them to live a meaningful and happy life. Lehanne graduated in 2009 from the University of the Free State in South Africa and had the privile
Lehanne is an Occupational Therapist with a special interest in supporting children and families living with disabilities. Helping them develop independence and accessing support systems to enable them to live a meaningful and happy life. Lehanne graduated in 2009 from the University of the Free State in South Africa and had the privilege of developing her skills set in settings that required 'out-of-the-box thinking' being challenged with very limited resources.
She feels passionate about supporting individuals to develop resilience and perseverance to be able to thrive within their unique circumstances and environment.
She has experience working in the disability sector specifically related to acquiring and accessing assistive technology (wheelchairs and alternative seating), supporting clients with ASD, learning difficulties, sensory and emotional regulation/processing and ensuring inclusion in the community, school and home environment.
She enjoys working alongside families to overcome barriers, develop independence optimally and support individuals to achieve the goals that are important to them.
Leesa Moran
Lehanne Rabie
Leesa Moran
Leesa has more than 25 years experience as an OT in the disability field, specialising in the Early Child Approach, supporting children aged 0 - 9 years and their families.
Leesa's approach is built around connected and respectful partnerships with children and their families, to promote child development and participation in everyday life
Leesa has more than 25 years experience as an OT in the disability field, specialising in the Early Child Approach, supporting children aged 0 - 9 years and their families.
Leesa's approach is built around connected and respectful partnerships with children and their families, to promote child development and participation in everyday life at home, school and local communities. Leesa is committed to the delivery of participation based supports that are grounded in evidence-informed practices for optimal outcomes for clients and their families.
Jane Weidyk
Lehanne Rabie
Leesa Moran
Jane is an occupational therapist who is dedicated to supporting adolescents and young adults with disabilities to live fulfilling, meaningful lives. She comes from a background in complex equipment prescription and has undergone additional training in seating, home modifications, and pressure care. She has a passion for learning and evi
Jane is an occupational therapist who is dedicated to supporting adolescents and young adults with disabilities to live fulfilling, meaningful lives. She comes from a background in complex equipment prescription and has undergone additional training in seating, home modifications, and pressure care. She has a passion for learning and evidence-informed practice and is continually seeking out new ways to ensure her clients are receiving the best possible support.
At home, Jane spends her time with her two very young boys and managing a full house of animals.
Chloe Hyde
Mathilda De Jager
Mathilda De Jager
Chloe is an Occupational Therapist with a passion for working with individuals and families to enhance their wrap-around supports and overall wellbeing. She has experience working with children and families with a variety of barriers and needs in a variety of environments.
She has a special interest in neuro-affirming practice and advo
Chloe is an Occupational Therapist with a passion for working with individuals and families to enhance their wrap-around supports and overall wellbeing. She has experience working with children and families with a variety of barriers and needs in a variety of environments.
She has a special interest in neuro-affirming practice and advocacy for all clients, but with particular regard to school-aged children and young adults.
Chloe enjoys a creative and activity-based approach to therapy with a client-led focus to achieving goals and outcomes.
Meaningful engagements, self-motivation, and fun, play a significant role in shaping Chloe’s therapeutic approach for all clients.
Mathilda De Jager
Mathilda De Jager
Mathilda De Jager
Mathilda is a fun-loving occupational therapist with 10 years of experience. She has a special interest in early childhood intervention and firmly believes that this is the stage of life where a vast impact can be made. She has experience with a range of disabilities including global developmental delays, autism, attention deficit hype
Mathilda is a fun-loving occupational therapist with 10 years of experience. She has a special interest in early childhood intervention and firmly believes that this is the stage of life where a vast impact can be made. She has experience with a range of disabilities including global developmental delays, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, sensory processing disorders, and mental and physical impairments.
Mathilda owned a clinical practice in Namibia and particularly enjoyed mentoring younger therapists. She is a social person who loves getting to know people. In her free time she enjoys being outdoors and spending time with her husband and two children.
Bronte Dhal
Mathilda De Jager
Shanelle Higgins
Bronte is an Occupational Therapist with a passion for working with Children. She has a strong belief that working within the child's environment and using family-centered practice will gain the best results from therapeutic interventions.
Bronte uses child-led approach to support the child's growth and development as well as using the chi
Bronte is an Occupational Therapist with a passion for working with Children. She has a strong belief that working within the child's environment and using family-centered practice will gain the best results from therapeutic interventions.
Bronte uses child-led approach to support the child's growth and development as well as using the child's interest and strengths to support the development and progression of goals.
Bronte has experience working with children with ASD and ADHD as well as sensory processing and learning difficulties. She uses a sensory based approach to therapy and learning and enjoys assisting families and teachers to create supportive environments for their child to learn and grow.
Shanelle Higgins
Shanelle Higgins
Shanelle Higgins
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Hayley Poh
Shanelle Higgins
Hayley Poh
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Jen Ivey
Shanelle Higgins
Hayley Poh
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Physiotherapy Team
Kelly Bowers
Samara Dunning
Samara Dunning
Kelly is a highly motivated and experienced paediatric physiotherapist with a strong passion for early intervention. Kelly graduated with a Bachelor of physiotherapy from the University of Notre Dame in 2016 and a master’s degree in advanced Paediatric Physiotherapy Practices in 2022. She worked for a short time within a tertiary hospita
Kelly is a highly motivated and experienced paediatric physiotherapist with a strong passion for early intervention. Kelly graduated with a Bachelor of physiotherapy from the University of Notre Dame in 2016 and a master’s degree in advanced Paediatric Physiotherapy Practices in 2022. She worked for a short time within a tertiary hospital setting before moving into the disability and community sector where her passion for working with children grew exponentially. Kelly has gained extensive experience with NDIS as a Senior Early Childhood Practitioner and Specialist Support Coordinator.
Kelly has strong skills in the assessment, identification, and treatment of children with neurodevelopmental and movement difficulties. Being a strong believer that play is a child’s language and that toys are their words, her hands on skills are often mixed with a big dash of fun, creativity, and playfulness.
Kelly loves sharing the excitement with each of her families when their child masters the skill they have been working so hard to achieve – this is her favourite part of the job! She enjoys collaborating with children, their families, other health professionals and teachers or educators to optimise the health, well-being, and abilities of each child to enable them to move and participate in everyday activities, like playing, learning, going to school, and being part of a family and community. Being in the position to empower families to support their children to reach their full potential and improve their quality of life brings her great joy.
Prior to physiotherapy, Kelly specialised in teaching acrobatics, balance, and contortion skills for 20+ years. This has allowed her to develop her skills in movement analysis and she has gained a strong understanding of how the body works, and how to adapt or modify activities to build strength and achieve success.
Kelly also has a special interest in working with adults with neurological injury and aims to provide a transdisciplinary approach, working collaboratively alongside the complex care team and with other key supports in an individual’s life.
Kelly has a continued passion to learn and upskill. She also has a certificate of training in the Cuevas Medek Exercise (CME) approach.
In her downtime, Kelly is a meditation and yoga enthusiast. She is a nature and animal lover, and you will never find her dog far from her side.
Samara Dunning
Samara Dunning
Samara Dunning
Samara is an experienced physiotherapist who has worked across several areas and has ultimately found her passion in the disability sector. Samara enjoys working with adults and paediatrics with physical disabilities in order to reach their full potential, whether this be through therapy-based intervention, provision of assistive technolo
Samara is an experienced physiotherapist who has worked across several areas and has ultimately found her passion in the disability sector. Samara enjoys working with adults and paediatrics with physical disabilities in order to reach their full potential, whether this be through therapy-based intervention, provision of assistive technology or support worker and family training.
Samara also has a special interest in respiratory care and has continued to work in the hospital sector to maintain these skills and transfer them across to the community environment. She hopes to work with those who have fallen in the cracks between NDIS and the healthcare system to ensure they receive the ongoing respiratory care they need for their disability.
In her spare time, Samara enjoys spending time with her two Aussie shepherds and her soon-to-be husband going on offroad adventures and camping trips.
Trent Banks
Trent Banks
Trent Banks
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Jeremy Foo
Trent Banks
Trent Banks
Jeremy is a Physiotherapist with a passion for working with people of all ages and all disabilities.
He aims to provide client-centred, holistic care that is strength-focused and evidence-based.
He has experience with supporting with exercise programs such as home, gym, or hydro, as well as providing support with simple and complex assis
Jeremy is a Physiotherapist with a passion for working with people of all ages and all disabilities.
He aims to provide client-centred, holistic care that is strength-focused and evidence-based.
He has experience with supporting with exercise programs such as home, gym, or hydro, as well as providing support with simple and complex assistive technology. Jeremy developed a soft spot for regional healthcare after spending almost 4 years servicing the Wheatbelt area at his former employment
Speech Therapy Team
Kia O'Neill
Ruth Canas-Lozano
Ruth Canas-Lozano
Kia is a dedicated and compassionate Speech Pathologist with a strong commitment to helping individuals of all ages. Since graduating in 2015, Kia has been committed to providing inclusive and neuro-affirming services to her clients. She firmly believes in the power of building upon strengths and is passionate about assisting her clients
Kia is a dedicated and compassionate Speech Pathologist with a strong commitment to helping individuals of all ages. Since graduating in 2015, Kia has been committed to providing inclusive and neuro-affirming services to her clients. She firmly believes in the power of building upon strengths and is passionate about assisting her clients in reaching their full potential.
Kia is highly skilled in implementing the 'Sounds Write' literacy program, which enables her to effectively assist individuals in developing their literacy skills, including reading and writing abilities. She also has a keen interest in using Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) to assist children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, providing them with targeted and effective interventions.
Recognizing the importance of effective communication for everyone, Kia is well-versed in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) techniques. She collaborates closely with her clients and their families to ensure their unique needs and goals are met.
Kia also has a strong background in addressing speech-sound disorders and supporting children with their receptive and expressive language needs. She has extensive experience working in schools and collaborating with teaching staff to support students with speech and language difficulties.
With a warm and empathetic approach, Kia fosters a supportive environment for her clients, empowering them to overcome challenges and achieve their desired outcomes. Her dedication to inclusivity, combined with her comprehensive skill set, makes her a valuable asset in the field of Speech Pathology.
Ruth Canas-Lozano
Ruth Canas-Lozano
Ruth Canas-Lozano
Ruth is an experienced Speech Pathologist who graduated from Edith Cowan University. Ruth is passionate about empowering individuals of all ages to communicate effectively. Ruth is committed to helping children with their literacy skills. Ruth understands the difficulties some children experiences with schooling. Ruth herself has overcom
Ruth is an experienced Speech Pathologist who graduated from Edith Cowan University. Ruth is passionate about empowering individuals of all ages to communicate effectively. Ruth is committed to helping children with their literacy skills. Ruth understands the difficulties some children experiences with schooling. Ruth herself has overcome her own personal challenges and is empathetic and driven to help families and children re-engage with learning.
Ruth’s approach to therapy is very much child and family centred led. Ruth makes every effort to work with the child’s interest, regulate their emotions/nervous system and make them feel safe and at ease with her. Ruth also provides parent coaching. Ruth enjoys teaching parents how to play with and engage their children and look for communication opportunities and communication attempts.
Ruth has extensive experience working with paediatric clients with a range of conditions. These include:
- Children with Global Developmental Delay
- Autistic children
- Speech delay
- Developmental Language Delay
- Children with attention and executive functioning difficulties
- High tech communication devices such as TouchChat and LAMP
- Hearing Loss
- Selective Mutism
Ruth is certified Sounds-Write clinician – a Systematic Sequential Phonics program, and Key word sign. Ruth has also completed additional training in Colourful Semantics, Talk for Writing and essay writing.
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Admin Team
Jay Stott
Marina Krollig
Marina Krollig
Jay is our resident admin who loves to liase with clients, their families and support coordinators to assist them in fitting them with one of our wonderful therapists so they can achieve their therapy goals!
In his spare time, Jay enjoys playing wheelchair Basketball and watching movies.
Marina Krollig
Marina Krollig
Marina Krollig
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Marina Krollig
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We are looking for OT's, PT's and SP's with great customer service skills and experience in providing therapy and within the NDIA to join our highly experienced team.