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!
Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy – BSc (OT)
Lee is a cool, calm, and collected therapist with experience working with a diverse set of clients with different conditions such as ASD, ADHD, GDD, speech delay, and Down’s syndrome. He has worked both in an in-clinic/home setting and online-based teletherapy. He makes sure that a child’s needs and goals are met using evidence-based and evidence-informed practice.
Lee has worked mostly in multi-disciplinary paediatric clinics alongside speech language pathologists and physical therapists for most of his professional career.
He has assisted in setting up an online forum dedicated to helping parents and educators connect and understand their child more. Lee helps families achieve their therapy goals by tailoring specific programs to help facilitate development or improvement of gross and fine motor skills, social skills, self-help skills, and sensory integration.
Masters of Speech Pathology
Michaela is a dedicated speech pathologist who is passionate about helping children achieve their communication goals. She strives to make a positive impact and provide compassionate and individualised therapy. In her spare time, Michaela likes to knit and crochet.
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy – BOT
Nuyra is a calm and compassionate OT and loves working with all ages. She has a particular interest in school readiness, social skills and emotional regulation for our children with Developmental Delay and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy – BOT
Isobel loves to create a fun (but challenging) environment for children. She enjoys working with our pre-school and early primary children to develop their motor co-ordination, executive functioning, and emotional regulation.
Isobel has experience working with children to develop their social skills and help regulate their emotions under the Social Thinking Curriculum course. She helps children and their parents in understanding thoughts and feelings. Previously, Isobel completed her 4th year placement with us and we just couldn’t let her leave! Isobel’s strength is that she never gets ruffled – she is our Koolest Kalmest Katt!
Isobel is our social media guru and she also runs our Sense Rugby Program!
Sheregularly volunteers her time for a number of community and disability children’s programs. Throughout her life, Isobel has always been passionate about keeping fit and healthy, and in her spare time, enjoys endurance water polo, netball and exploring anywhere outdoors!
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy
Angelica has previous experience working in a number of paediatric multidisciplinary clinics in the Philippines over the past 5 years. She has a passion for working with children and teens with Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism and Global Developmental Delay. She has previously been a student coordinator within teaching clinics and will continue her excellent teaching skills to future generations of OT’s here in Australia.
Angelica has completed post-graduate qualifications in Sensory Processing, Executive Functioning, DIR Floortime and the Play Project.
Angelica love to see how a child can unleash their skills through play! She enjoys seeing the big smile on the faces of children and their parents when they’re able to do hard things through the magic of play.
In her spare time Angelica loves being physically active and working out!!
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy
Georgia has a passion for working with children. She is currently completing her 4th year of her Bachelor of Occupational Therapy at Western Sydney University.
In her previous placement experiences, she has worked in private allied health clinics, community settings such as schools, and home environments.
She has experience with children with Autism, ADHD, sensorimotor difficulties and cognitive challenges, to name just a few.
Georgia’s excellent communication skills and encouraging nature means that she easily connects with children and their support network, which builds strong therapeutic relationships. She likes to make her therapy sessions fun and uses a play-based approach to assist children in achieving their goals and increasing their independence in everyday activities.
Hannah is an energetic and passionate OT who loves working with children of all ages – and they love having fun with her! Hannah has extensive experience working alongside children and teens in schools and running life skills groups. Hannah has a particular interest in early intervention, play focused therapy and DIR Floortime. Hannah believes that working with the child and family’s strengths is at the heart of intervention. Hannah loves to work with children in a group setting and runs some of our social, motor, school readiness and handwriting groups.
In her spare time you can find Hannah going on adventures in the great outdoors or knitting her next sweater.
