What this looks like in a session
I started Wild Springs because the way I want to work did not fit the model most clinics run. Less tabletop, more holistic. Every plan is tailored to the participant in front of me, not a template I learned at uni. We might be outside, at school, or on the floor of the therapy room, wherever the person is most regulated and the actual work can happen.
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Child-led
I follow what matters to the person in front of me and build the work around it.
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Body-based
Movement and the senses, not tabletop assessments unless they actually help.
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Holistic
The whole picture: the person, the family, and the systems they are navigating.
Child-led, not protocol-led
The participant's interests shape the session.
If a child lights up with sensory bins or outdoor movement, that is where the work happens. If an adult is most regulated talking through a walk rather than across a desk, that is where we go. Therapy works better when it is built around the person, not around a template I learned at uni.
Body-based, not tabletop
Real OT shows up in regulation, transitions, and how the body holds stress.
I don't do tabletop work just because it is easier to bill. Sessions move, between standing and sitting, indoors and outdoors, talking and not-talking, because that is what regulation actually looks like for most of the people I work with.
Family-supportive, not isolated
The participant doesn't live alone in the session.
Support for households navigating diagnosis, NDIS shifts, school transitions, and the everyday weight that comes with all of it is part of the work. I stay in contact between sessions where it makes sense, write plans the family can actually use, and make sure Sam, when relevant, is across what is happening.
What this looks like in practice
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Listen first
The first session is a conversation. What brought you here, what has worked, what hasn't, and what the day-to-day looks like.
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Build a plan together
Goals come from the participant or the family, not from a deficit list. I write something concrete enough that we can both refer back to it.
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Adjust as we go
Plans shift. Diagnoses change. The NDIS moves. We change with it, without restarting from scratch every time.
Ready when
you are.
New clients welcome. Plan-managed and self-managed NDIS clients accepted. For complex cases, the consult lets us figure out together whether Wild Springs is the right fit, before any plans are made. No pressure, just a conversation.
