Paediatric & Developmental Occupational Therapist
Eastern Suburbs, Sydney

When everyday life feels harder than it should, the answer often lies in the body.

When your child is overwhelmed by big emotions, struggling to focus, or finding everyday moments harder than they should be, it is rarely a matter of trying harder. The answer usually lies underneath, in the body and the nervous system.

Brought to you, at home and at school, by one therapist who holds the whole picture.

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How can I help?

Start where you are

I am a parent noticing something

Handwriting, coordination, big emotions, attention, sensory needs or a child who is capable but not showing it.

What I help with → 02

I am an early learning centre, preschool or school

Classroom observation, educator consultation, sessions on site, and parent evenings and staff workshops.

Working with schools → 03

I am exploring the NDIS

Help getting your child onto the NDIS, the reports an access request needs, and support for self and plan managed plans.

NDIS and early access →

You Know Your Child Best

Does any of this sound familiar?

Emotions that overwhelm

Big feelings arrive fast and hit hard. Boundaries, or not being in control, can feel like too much.

Capable, but not showing it

You know what they can do. Somewhere between knowing and showing, it gets lost.

A thousand miles an hour, or not in the room

Constant motion that will not settle, or a child who seems to drift somewhere you cannot reach.

The words they use about themselves

“I’m bad at this.” “I’m the naughty one.” A child’s story about who they are starts to form.

If any of these feel close to home, the approach explains what is usually underneath them.

Meet Ella

A focused, whole person approach

Ella MacLean is a Registered Occupational Therapist with a focus on early intervention for children aged two to nine, focusing on regulation and developmental foundations, who also facilitates therapeutic groups at a leading mental health hospital. Her work is held together by one idea: that regulation begins in the body and the nervous system.

From that foundation she draws together reflex and sensory integration, nervous system regulation and evidence based psychotherapy, as a single integrated approach rather than separate services, with considered clinical reasoning at the centre of every session.

Ella has strong working relationships with schools across the Eastern Suburbs and knows them well, their programs, their classrooms and how a child’s day there runs. She lives here too, and you are likely to pass her running the path down from Vaucluse, or with her dog at Rose Bay.

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The Integrate & Regulate model

What shapes every program

A clear beginning, method and endpoint, with the foundations assessed and built first.

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Concentrated

Frequency and repetition, because that is how the body consolidates

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A clear path

You always know what we are doing, why, and what comes next

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Parents empowered

Families and schools equipped with knowledge to carry change forward

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Clinically grounded

A considered model, grounded in neuroscience and the nervous system

Let's find the right path for you

Wherever you are starting from, there is a way forward. Tell me who I can help, and I will take you to the right place.

I am here for my child I am exploring the NDIS

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