About Fi.

Fi Mitchell graduated from La Trobe University Occupational Therapy in 2008. After 3 years working in adult mental health settings, she started working as an OT at a Special Developmental school in metropolitan Melbourne in 2012. Fi loved working at the school, collaborating in a rich multi-disciplinary environment with education staff, Speech Pathologists and Physios. Here, Fi developed her skills in working with children who were learning to communicate with AAC (Alternative Augmentative Communication).
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Fi Mitchell completed further training in sensory based intervention, self-regulation, mindfulness for children, strengths-based approach, picky eaters and problem feeders - food play (the SOS approach), mindfulness, trauma informed care, executive functioning skill development, neuro affirming social supports, Autism in girls, Collaborative Problem Solving, Learn to play for adolescence and parent coaching.
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Fi believes in a strengths-based approach, building on the families’ strengths and interests. She uses coaching in her practice, tuning into the expertise and wisdom parents have about their children. Her special interests include self-regulation, social development, and play-based therapy.

Outside of clinical practice Fi has nurtured her passion in providing education workshops in collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines; a trauma informed primary school teacher with a master’s in student well-being and a children’s Yoga teacher. Together, they developed workshops around self-regulation and developing inclusive edu-caring relationships with students. Fi also collaborated with Castlemaine based child psychologist to explore how we as therapists and teachers can be neuro affirming in our therapeutic approaches.
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Fi works in the community, where kids like to play, learn and have fun. She is energetic, playful, and fun to work with. In her leisure you she enjoys painting with water colours, she is a permaculture enthusiast, gardener, bird watcher, indigenous plant appreciator, dancer, roller skater, snowboarder and skateboarder! Look out for Fi riding her mountain bike on the local trails around Castlemaine on the weekends!