New Leaf is a solo practice, run by a neurodivergent occupational therapist. It's built deliberately small, so the person you first speak to is the person you work with.
New Leaf is run by a neurodivergent occupational therapist. That shapes the practice more than any framework does.
Being measured against a checklist that was never built for you, and being asked to change rather than understood, is known here firsthand, not in theory. A lot of therapy still works that way. Comply, smooth out the differences, tick the box.
therapy should be deeply validating, not corrective.
So I come to you. No clinic, no waiting room. I meet you, or your child, in the places you already feel settled: home, school, the workplace, or your community.
And we start with who you are, not who a checklist says you should be.
I start with what you can do and what you care about, whether I'm working with you directly or with your child. Support needs come into it, but they're never the headline.
You know yourself, and your child, better than anyone. I work alongside you and your wider support network, whether that's family, educators, employers, or other clinicians, so everyone is pulling in the same direction.
When something's hard, I look at the mismatch between you and what's around you, and we adjust the world to fit, not the other way around.
There's no single template. Support is shaped around how you take in the world and what matters to you, at a pace that feels safe.
AHPRA-registered occupational therapist: fully qualified and accountable to national health practitioner standards.
Experienced across ages 0–65: including Autistic people, ADHD, Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, and a broad range of sensory processing profiles.
Grounded in current frameworks: neuroaffirming practice and Responsive Feeding Therapy, with an ongoing commitment to professional development so the support stays current.
Lived experience and clinical training, together: the dual perspective that shapes every session: clinical rigour with firsthand understanding of navigating the system.
NDIS Services: New Leaf Allied Health Services Pty Ltd is an unregistered NDIS provider offering services to self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants. We are currently unable to provide services to NDIA-managed participants.
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