https://www.fimitchell.com.au/home daily 1.0 2020-10-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f755a5cb4743f3d86ac5933/1601526380372/DISCOVERY-WONDER.png Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f75592205a7793966c0e7a1/1601526234686/SUPPORTIVE-RELATIONSHIPS.png Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f755b9d0dd0c87c419908a2/1601526709634/PLAYFULNESS-.png Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f7559bfb4743f3d86ac3d14/1601526227450/KINDNESS-POSITIVITY.png Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f6d5b671f31d27257157d55/1601527922001/fi-mitchell-rainbow-8.png Home - Where to start? Get in touch to discuss how OT may look for you and your child. I offer an initial session with the parent / carer as a 60-minute community based visit or telehealth consultation to gain a better understanding of your child’s needs. Following this, we will book in a follow up session to meet you and your child in person to discuss goals and develop an individualised treatment plan. Where therapy happens: Sessions and consultations take place in your community spaces. Home, school, parks, playgrounds, in the shops, at a local pool, depending on what best suits you and your family. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f6d5e999912fa260717fb7b/1601003828053/fi-mitchell-ball-8.png Home - Assessment, education, and therapy for: Emotional development and Self-regulation Daily living skills, sleeping, toileting, dressing, eating, organisation Play skills friendships and social skill development School readiness, concentration Sensory Processing Handwriting Fine and gross motor skills, strength, and coordination https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f6d5fc56dfc6343693a519f/1601003838683/fi-mitchell-overall-8.png Home - Funding Referrals can be made by parents, carers, teachers or other health professionals involved with the child. I accept: NDIS for self and plan managed children (sorry, I can’t support NDIS managed clients) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f6d63789912fa2607188b63/1601004899835/fi-mitchell-lay-back-8.png Home - Get in touch. connect@fimitchell.com.au 0449874749 Castlemaine, Victoria Australia Youtube Instagram https://www.fimitchell.com.au/contact daily 0.75 2020-11-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f7564872fbf5a336381fd1d/1601528985970/FI-MITCHELL-contact.jpg Contact https://www.fimitchell.com.au/about daily 0.75 2020-09-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6aa80fa0998d5f952b4705/t/5f6d78358d53706f7fd6472a/1601009772097/Fi-Mitchell-Portrait.jpg About - About Fi. Fi Mitchell graduated from La Trobe University Occupational Therapy in 2008. After a couple of 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). Fi Mitchell has 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, social thinking, DIR-floor time, Learn to play for adolescence and parent coaching. 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 her dear friend, Rosie Parry, a trauma informed teacher with a master’s in student well-being and a children’s Yoga teacher. Together, they are continuously developing a workshop series around self-regulation and developing inclusive edu-caring relationships with students. Fi works both in the community and clinic. She is energetic, playful, and fun to work with. In her leisure she enjoys painting with water colours, she is a permaculture enthusiast, indigenous plant appreciator, dancer, roller skater, skateboarder and surfer!