Registered Occupational Therapy · Sydney & Telehealth

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. Integrate & Regulate is dedicated paediatric Occupational Therapy that works at the neurological foundations beneath the surface, using reflex integration, sensory processing and the science of neuroplasticity to help your child feel calmer, more capable and more connected. This is dedicated, designed care that reaches the root of the difficulty, not just the behaviour on the surface.

One integrated, evidence based approach, drawing together sensory and reflex integration, nervous system regulation, and established psychotherapy, grounded in occupational therapy.

Designed, outcome focused programs. Care that comes to you. And the same therapist, Ella, every single session.

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Trusted Within The Community

Trusted by families, preschools and schools across the Sydney community.

As a registered health practitioner, specific client examples and testimonials cannot be shared, in line with AHPRA advertising regulations. What can be shared is the qualifications, the approach, and the research it is grounded in.

The Evidence Behind The Work

Grounded in established science, not guesswork

This is considered, evidence based occupational therapy. The approach draws on recognised research in sensory processing, the nervous system, neuroplasticity and child development, the same foundations trusted across the field.

Sensory integration

Built on the foundational work of A. Jean Ayres and the modern research of the STAR Institute for Sensory Processing, including Sarah Schoen.

The nervous system

Informed by the work of Stephen Porges on the nervous system and safety, and Dan Siegel on regulation, connection and the developing mind.

Neuroplasticity

The intensive model is grounded in neuroplasticity research, the brain changes through frequency and repetition, which is why concentrated work can create lasting change.

Purposeful, functional play

Not just play. Each activity is a purposeful, functional movement targeting a specific reflex or sensory goal, embedded through play and always well communicated, so you understand the why.

You Know Your Child Best

Does any of this sound familiar?

So many of the families I meet describe the same moments at home. If any of these feel close to home, you are in the right place.

Emotions that overwhelm

Big feelings arrive fast and hit hard, and once they take hold, they can be very difficult to come back from.

Everything, all at once

Sounds, textures, lights, crowds. The world comes in at full volume, with nothing to turn it down.

Calm to meltdown in seconds

One moment they are fine, the next they are completely gone, with almost nothing in between.

Digging in, holding on

A change of plan, a different cup, the wrong sock. Small things can feel impossibly big.

Always on the move

Bumping, crashing, never quite still. Their body is still learning where it is in space.

You have tried everything

You have read the books and followed the advice, and you can feel there is something underneath it all.

And because of that, everyday life can start to feel unpredictable, a trip to the shops, getting dressed, the school run. You love your child more than anything, yet in the hardest moments you might find yourself wondering, why is everything so hard?

Using evidence informed strategies that work with your child's brain, body, sensory processing and nervous system, not against them, daily life can become calmer, more connected and far less exhausting for everyone. Because when we understand what sits underneath the behaviour, we can respond in ways that build regulation, resilience and connection.

Two Ways I Can Help

Whoever you are here for, there's a path for you

My main work is supporting childhood development. Alongside this, I offer a limited number of telehealth psychotherapy places for adolescents and young adults, roughly aged 13 to 25.

Primary Practice

Children & Families

Intensive reflex integration programs that work at the neurological foundations of your child's development, supporting the nervous system to settle, focus and grow, with change built to truly last.

The Integration Intensive, Condensed Intensive and Maintenance programs
Reflex integration, sensory processing, motor development and regulation
Home and school based across Sydney, where schools are on board

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Limited Telehealth Places

Adolescents & Young Adults

In addition to supporting childhood development, I offer adolescents and young adults ongoing telehealth psychotherapy that maintains a nervous system focus, for those making sense of a new diagnosis, a shift in identity, or grief for the life they imagined.

As someone who received her own late diagnosis of ADHD, alongside a realisation of her own sensory preferences, Ella deeply understands the work of learning to know and become yourself again, and brings that lived understanding to every session.

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Meet Ella

A warm, whole person approach

Ella MacLean is a Registered Occupational Therapist and approved Behaviour Support Practitioner 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, evidence based psychotherapy and behaviour support, as a single integrated approach rather than separate services, with genuine warmth at the centre of every session.

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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 here for myself I am exploring the NDIS

Registered Occupational Therapist · Evidence based · Trusted by Sydney families, preschools and schools