Learn More About Nature & Thrive Service
Parent Coaching
In person or online services aimed at collaborating with caregivers and extended family members to share knowledge, create action plans and strategies for in-home, school, and other environments, develop home programs and work together to support your child’s strengths and challenges.
Telehealth
Fun and interactive online OT sessions in the comfort of your own home from anywhere in New Zealand. Individualised child and family-focused sessions that are tailored to meet your child’s needs and goals.
Learn how to use what you have access to within your home environment to support your child’s engagement, attention, self-regulation, motor skill development, and sensory needs.
In-Home Occupational Therapy Evaluation
An Occupational Therapy Assessment and following this a comprehensive Evaluation Report will be carried out for all new clients to determine underlying challenges, highlight strengths and provide a baseline for how Occupational Therapy intervention will assist your child in areas of your concern. This process will include both standardised testing, as well as clinical observations, that will either be carried out in the home, or school depending on where your child is experiencing their primary difficulties.
An Occupational Therapy Evaluation can look into challenges with regards to the following functional domains:
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Mobility (Gross motor and fine motor skills, postural stability and endurance, praxis, sensory integration)
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Communication (Verbal and non-verbal skills, shared attention and engagement, social communication, play skills)
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Learning (Attention and concentration, visual perception and visual motor integration, auditory processing, handwriting, organisation skills, sensory integration)
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Self-Care (Sleep, dressing, grooming, feeding, toileting, sensory integration)
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Social Skills (Social cognition and social communication skills, self-regulation, social problem solving, interaction and engagement, play skills)
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Self-Management (Self-regulation, behaviour, anxiety, organisation skills)
In-Home Occupational Therapy Sessions
Engaging and collaborative individual sessions for your child in their home environment to assist with development in areas such as self-regulation, social-emotional development, sensory processing capacities, motor skills, problem-solving and planning, learning and attention, improvement in daily life skills and social skills.
Have access to specialised resources within your home, become a part of the fun of play-based OT, and have the opportunity for family members to be incorporated into sessions for whole family engagement and learning together too.
In-School Occupational Therapy Sessions
Individual or group-based OT sessions can also be conducted directly in your child’s learning environment.
These sessions can be to provide additional 1:1 support in the classroom to help target learning needs; provide the additional sensory input your child needs to be able to engage, learn and focus; learn how to safely navigate the playground and their physical environment; provide classroom-based strategies to optimise learning, or help your child to engage with their peers in a meaningful and “expected” way.
School/Teacher Training & Consolation
In-person or online consultations aimed at collaborating with teaching staff, support staff, and key members of the school community to share knowledge with regards to your child’s individual learning profile and needs. As well as opportunities to create specific school and classroom-based recommendations and resources either for individual children or whole class engagement, support environmental design for engaged attention and optimal learning, and create move to learn spaces to address children’s sensory and movement needs within the school environment.
Professional Development and Learning Opportunities
In-person or online consultations for new graduate Occupational Therapists or those looking to move into the world of Paediatric OT.
To help expand knowledge for assessment and evaluation processes, treatment modalities, and clinical reasoning, as well as understanding the underlying and unique differences that present for children with a range of developmental, mental health, and genetic conditions.
Sense Rugby NZ
Sense Rugby is a rugby based Occupational Therapy program designed to help kids who usually find it difficult to be part of a sports team. We utilise a child’s strengths and their motivation to help them to participate, and we focus on creating a positive successful social experience first and foremost.
Our overall mission is to helps kids to love movement and sport. We do this because we believe in the power of sport to create lasting physical and mental change and create a sense of belonging and community.
Special Groups
In the future, Nurture & Thrive therapy will look to offer social groups, sensorimotor groups and an offsite camp program to support social and sensorimotor development.
For more information, please ask.
Nature-Full Groups
Nature-full Nature Based Group Therapy Programmes for Children
Nature-based group therapy programmes for children aged 7 - 12 years who may be experiencing challenges with: emotional regulation, attention, social interaction, sensory processing and responses.
The Nature-full programme provides opportunities for young people to connect with nature and develop social-emotional skills that support good health and wellbeing.
Lego Therapy Groups
LEGO-Based therapy is an evidence based social skills program developed for people on the Autism Spectrum by Daniel Le-Goff and Simon Baron- Cohen. This therapy model coaches group participants to work as a team, using LEGO in a structured way to achieve an outcome together as a group. The intrinsic value of LEGO for the participants means that motivation and volition is naturally high, so learning of the social skills is accelerated. Research has also shown the skills learned in the group naturally transfer well to other settings such as from the clinic setting to the home.
