by Louisa Di Fiore | May 21, 2024 | Mental Health OT, Occupational Therapy, Psychology
What Is a Mental Health Occupational Therapist & Why Might I See One? Firstly, we need to ask ourselves what is Occupational Therapy? Occupational Therapy (https://www.otaus.com.au/about/about-ot) is concerned with ‘occupation’, meaning it is all the activities,...
by Louisa Di Fiore | May 26, 2023 | Occupational Therapy, Psychology
Difficulties with attention or distractibility, impulsive behaviour and managing our emotions can affect our participation in meaningful occupations within the home, family life and the community including employment and social situations. This can cause significant...
by Sarah Wolfel | May 14, 2019 | Attention, Core Strength, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Hand Skills, Handwriting, Marte Meo, Occupational Therapy, Parenting, Posture, Sensory, toileting
As a parent we often worry about whether our children are meeting milestones and developing appropriately in a wide range of areas. Sometimes it can be clear when a child is having difficulty and for others it can be hard to determine if being slightly slow to reach a...
by Sarah Wolfel | May 1, 2019 | Attention, Occupational Therapy
Attention and concentration are important skills for children to be able to interact and engage appropriately in a variety on environments. When children struggle with these skills it can greatly impact on their academic performance regardless of their intellect. It...
by Brett Williams | Jan 20, 2019 | Allied Health, Communication, Couples, Family Therapy, Marte Meo, Occupational Therapy, Parenting
Following and leading in relationships can be important concepts to understand and apply because they have a large bearing on self-esteem and the building or diminishing trust over time. While these principles apply to all relationships, let’s start by focussing...
by Brett Williams | Jul 27, 2018 | Allied Health, Family Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Sensory
Anger is such an interesting emotion. It is so misunderstood and seen as something Bad. There is no question that anger can be scary. But it is not in itself bad. The “badness” so to speak is when: it causes fear in those around us where fear is not useful...