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Occupational Therapy.

Flying Start Preschool Boost Provider.

✨ Sensory + self regulation
🌿 Child development + play
☀️ Real support for families + educators in the early years
🐚 South Australia + online

03/10/2026

It’s so good to have you here!

I’m an experienced OT, and believe in supporting parents and educators alongside children in the early years.

I’m interested in:

• How all kids are wonderful and worthy, just the way they are

• How juggling work and daily life can get in the way of parenting how we want to

• How we can play if we have no time and energy

• How we can be co-regulators for children if we are overwhelmed ourselves

• Helping kids and grown-ups to understand themselves, advocate for themselves, and meet their unmet needs

• Neurodiversity-affirming social connection

• Sensory experiences and nature play

…and that’s just the start!

Michelle 🌿
Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Wattle Tree Therapy is a key partner in the Preschool Boost Program, delivering supports as part of the Flying Start reforms.

Office for Early Childhood Development

28/09/2026

Accessibility and inclusion for all, not just those who are able.

28/09/2026

Very excited to be undertaking whole day training “Evidence-based and neuro-affirming intervention for ADHD: Parent training”.

All my work involves supporting children in the context of their family and early education environments. Parents need support as much as their children.

Looking forward to deep diving into what the evidence relevant to ADHD says today.

Australian Psychological Society

10/09/2026

If I have to verify my email address one more time… 😮‍💨

Seriously though. I had to download SEVEN apps just for ONE of my children.

Every individual thing has an app.

Notifications happen, I check my phone, but I’m busy and so the reminder is gone. The information is buried in the app.

My attention is fragmented between these “dings” on my phone, and real life demands. It’s easy to forget.

This is just one of many ways the demands of modern parenting has shifted from previous generations.

I believe that everyone in a child’s life can sometimes use support. Kids aren’t growing up alone. Grown ups need to have the capacity to raise children.

Did you know that I offer standalone parent and educator support? Check out the Wattle Tree website for more information.

Michelle 🌿
Wattle Tree Therapy

04/09/2026

If you have a child who is sensitive to noise, but likes to make noise themselves this could be regulating for them.

I called this the 🐝 bee breath ✨. It works because it blocks out external noise whilst also allowing the child to make noise themselves. And, at the end it forces a big inhalation which is known to be calming for our nervous systems.

This needs no equipment. You can do it anywhere, with one or small groups of children.

And it can help adults regulate too. This is quick thing that early childhood educators and parents can try for themselves.

I’m Michelle, Paediatric OT from Wattle Tree Therapy 🌿 and Flying Start Preschool Boost Provider for early childhood education and care services.

Get in touch via the website to see how we can work together.

26/08/2026

I’m so sick of all the parenting advice. It seems to just add pressure. Maybe what we we really need is less pressure.

Every day that I’m an OT and a Mum, I become more convinced, that flexibility is the way to:

• Take the pressure off to be perfect
• Stop stressing about the “best” decision
• Shake off any guilt
• And enjoy my kids more.

What do you think?

🌿 Michelle, OT

19/08/2026

Wattle Tree Therapy is delighted to be on the Preschool Boost menu of official providers.

This is part of the South Australian Government’s 3yo Preschool and Flying Start Initiative. It’s a commitment to reducing developmental vulnerabilities for young children in our state, by funding early childhood centres for allied health supports.

If your child is at an early childhood centre, or you’re an educator yourself, check out the Wattle Tree Therapy website for more information!

🌿 Michelle, OT

www.wattletreetherapy.com

25/06/2026

This is exactly what I experience! 💚 It’s a sensory difference.

28/05/2026

In my 16 years as a Paediatric OT, I’ve had the privilege of visiting hundreds of early childhood centres, like daycares and preschools.

The best centres aren’t the fanciest. They’re the ones where educators are either:

✨ Warm and responsive
✨ Playful and fun, or
✨ Intentional and inclusive.

What do you like about your child’s early childhood centre?

05/05/2026

I get to meet the most amazing people with the most brilliant minds! ✨ I love my job.

Address

Adelaide, SA

Telephone

+61401370676

Website

http://www.wattletreetherapy.com/, http://www.instagram.com/wattletreetherapy

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