Our Occupational Therapists enables people to participate in activities they find meaningful.
Our Speech Pathologists are focused on diagnosing, treating, and supporting communication issues.
Our Psychologists provide Mental Health Services for Children, Teens, Parents and Families
Kool KATTS exists to support children and their families to live their best lives.
Kool KATTS has provided Allied Health services in Sydney’s central region since 2017. We help children from 0 – 16 years to achieve their developmental goals, become more independent, and thrive! Each child is offered support tailored to meet their specific needs
and goals.
What’s the best thing about working at KoolKatts? Easy. The people.
We’re devoted, committed, diverse and driven to be the most Pawsome therapists in Western Sydney. We are energised by the happiness we bring to families while supporting each other. We provide awesome experiences to families and love doing it together.
Kool KATTS works collaboratively with everyone in a child’s life that contributes to their physical, emotional and educational development. We encourage parents to participate in therapy sessions to empower them with the confidence to continue the skills taught in clinic at home and in the community.
Working with us, you can expect:
Experience matters when it comes to your child, and at KoolKATTS, our leadership team boasts over 50 years of clinical experience with unwavering dedication to our families. When others use a bubble wand and play floor is lava, we use evidence based tools and techniques to help your family, like:
Step into a clinic designed with your child in mind. Our custom-built clinic offers a unique therapy experience tailored to DIR Floortime protocol. This will allow you to get to your goals quicker. Why? Because our clinic rooms are designed to be big enough for motor development and intensive regulation, and small enough to capture your child’s attention while supporting them to do hard things:
We don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy. Kool KATTS offer a range of therapy services to compliment your child’s therapy or target specific challenges. We provide:
All of the Clinicians at Kool KATTS under go a one year post graduate certificate in DIR Floortime and have weekly mentoring with a highly experienced Floortime trainer (our Management team). Our Director Kim is a certified trainer through Profectum Academy in the DIR®/Floortime Model and teaches basic courses throughout Australia and Overseas. Additionally, our team receive monthly group mentoring with advanced practioners from around the globe.
Kimberlee is Kool Kids And Teens Therapy Service’s Founder, Director and one of its Senior Clinicians. Kimberlee is an experienced and sought after paediatric therapist in the Parramatta area.
Kimberlee is passionate about being able to support children and parents to live their best lives. She has undertaken, and continues to pursue specialist training in the DIR Floortime and Sensory Integration approaches, to understand and tailor therapy to each and every child. Kimberlee graduated with an honours degree from Western Sydney University. She is a busy mum of 2 and 3 step children!!
After going through the challenges of raising a ‘spirited’ child, she realises that she finds her joy in working helping make the lives of parents with children that have neurobiological disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, developmental delays and learning difficulties.
Kimberlee is a member of the Australian Occupational Therapy Association and The Culture is Everything Health Professionals Group.
She aims to make Kool KATTS one of the BEST places to work!
Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy – BSc (OT)
Michelle is a dedicated and passion-driven occupational therapist with many years of hands-on professional practice in a wide variety of settings such as in hospitals, community, school-based, rehabilitation centres, aged care facilities, and private clinics both in Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Her extensive experience includes treating children with physical and intellectual disabilities, global developmental delays, visual and hearing disabilities, genetic anomalies as wells as metabolic disorders.
She also has special interests in psychosocial disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADD, ADHD, and Regulation/Sensory processing challenges.
Michelle has undertaken advanced training in Sensory Processing challenges such as Low Vision, Sensory Processing for Executive Functioning, Sensory Integration and Praxis and Visual-Vestibular Praxis Deficits.
Michelle has extensive experience with mentoring, training, and supporting other occupational therapists to help further develop their clinical skills.
Michelle has a wonderful, caring demeanour and our parents and children absolutely love her from the minute they meet her! Michelle is a mum of 2 young children. She loves spending time with her family and exploring Sydney!
Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology) – B.App.Sc (Speech Pathology), CPSP, MSPA
Bec has extensive experience as a Paediatric Speech Pathologist. She joined Kool KATTS in 2024 to head up our Speech department. Bec has a range of clinical passions including DIR FloorTime, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), and literacy. She loves engaging toddlers and young children who are developing early communication to build their language and connections to others. She understands that regulation and relationships are crucial as the foundation for communication.
It is her passion to identify the individual differences that make each child unique and customise her intervention to their strengths. Her passion for AAC further supports her purpose of identifying what is the best communication option for each child’s individual differences. She also loves working in literacy and is a Sounds-Write provider. Helping children and teenagers navigate the written word and learn to enjoy reading is incredibly rewarding. She enjoys educating other therapists across all experience levels and Speech Pathology students to help them become the best clinicians they can be.
Bec has experience completing assistive technology reports to support her clients in accessing AAC, along with prior mentoring and parent education experience across the areas of early communication, language development, AAC and literacy. Bec enjoys working collaboratively with parents and other health professionals to achieve the best outcomes for her clients.
Bec’s qualifications include:
Masters of Occupational Therapy – MOT
ra is an energetic and dedicated therapist who loves nothing more than putting a smile on children’s faces and watching them achieve their fullest potential.
Ira has previously worked in the Philippines, where she was situated in a Multidisciplinary clinic helping children, young adults and families achieve their therapy goals. Ira has extensive experience collaboratively working with children and their parents by performing screening assessments, individualised and group therapy programs in areas such as gross and fine motor skills development, social skills development, sensory integration, self-care skills and more.
Ira has a particular interest in sensory integration, feeding, handwriting and running group sessions.
ra has been fortunate to work with diverse range of clients including children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delays, ADHD, Down Syndrome. Ira has recently completed her Post Graduate Profectum DIR Floortime Certification.
For her Masters Degree in Occupational Therapy Ira developed a social skills assessment tool!
