Occupational Therapist

AREAS OF PRACTICE

  • Infants, children and families

  • Adolescents and young adults

  • Carer/parent support and coaching

  • Self Care independence (toileting, hygiene, mealtimes, dressing, showering) 

  • Life skills (budgeting, community access, cooking)

  • Managing transitions and daily routines

  • Fine and gross motor skills

  • Handwriting and classroom participation

  • Play and social skill development

  • Sensory regulation and emotional development 

  • Executive functioning skill development 

  • Nature therapy and nature play

About Paris

Paris has been working as an occupational therapist since she graduated university in 2016. Paris has specialised working with families and their children from babies to young adults. Paris works within a family-centred holistic approach when working with her clients, as well as focusing on developing independence when working with adolescents and young people. She has worked with families through NDIS, Medicare, and privately, offering both face-to-face and online services in a variety of settings.  Paris has worked in a variety of workplaces such as the private sector, Non Government Organisation (NGO), public sector and self-employment. 

Paris is calm, compassionate, enthusiastic and caring and has a passion for working toward a team approach to care. She is committed to working with appropriate multidisciplinary team members and the wider network to promote and facilitate positive outcomes for her clients. She has a strength based approach and works closely with parents and carers and young people combining an occupational performance coaching method and her expertise to tailor interventions that are feasible to their individual needs. Paris prides herself on her ability to be empathetic and approachable, walking alongside the families, children and young people she works with to assist them to achieve their goals.

When working with parents and carers, Paris uses a conscious, positive parenting approach focusing on the importance of a close connected child-parent relationship. Paris is passionate about  utilising the therapeutic benefits of nature and being outdoors with those she works with. In addition, Paris is passionate about the importance of outdoor play for children particularly in our modern world.

Paris graduated in 2016 from the University of Newcastle completing a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy with Class 1 Honours. She has completed professional development training in the areas of sensory interventions, toileting independence, sleep training, feeding therapy through Feeding Therapy Australia using a responsive feeding method, coaching, infancy and puberty and adolescent specific training. Paris has completed training in trauma and trauma informed practice as well as Neurosequentual Model of Therapeutics (NMT). NMT is a trauma specific training which has a holistic and ecological approach to interventions, targeting not only the child or young person but their caregiver relationships, broader family networks, school and community. The approach builds resilience through safe, ensuring relationships and daily experiences of success. 

Paris lives with her young family on Darkinjung Country. She loves spending her time in nature, being with her family and friends and living an active lifestyle.