What is Occupational Therapy and what will it do to help?
Occupational Therapy is recommended for kids and teens who need help developing their motor skills, identify / meet their sensory processing needs, emotional regulation and social skills. Motor difficulties can affect your child’s ability to participate in school and their learning outcomes. Sensory issues such as being overstimulated by sounds, texture, taste and visual stimuli can result in your child struggling with attention, concentration and result in increased anxiety, big reactions to small problems and meltdowns.
Explore Therapy can support your child’s development, provide assessment and therapy for a range of issues in a range of areas including:
Attention and concentration issues Autism Spectrum Disorder Coordination Emotional regulation Social Skills Fine motor abilities such as handwriting Gross motor abilities, including muscle control and coordination Self-care skills such as dressing, feeding and toileting Sensory processing difficulties such as (touch, taste, smell, movement and sight)
INITIAL ASSESSMENTS
Not sure what's going on for your child, or where to start? An Initial Assessment is the best first step.We take the time to understand your child through conversation, play-based observation, sensory profiling, and reflex testing — combined with what you, your child, and their teachers tell us. From there, you'll have a clear picture of your child's strengths, challenges, and the right next steps forward.Choose from an email summary, full written report, or standardised testing with report — whatever fits your family's needs.
From 60
minutes
From $280
2-18yrs
ONGOING THERAPY
Play-based, neuroaffirming, trauma-informed support. Built around your child, not a one-size-fits-all programme.
Our ongoing sessions support independence with daily routines, motor skills, emotional regulation, sensory needs, and friendships.
We also offer Food Explorers feeding therapy for children who find mealtimes tricky,
Group work includes Social Connection, Handwriting, Girls Club, School Readiness, and PMP groups.
Individual sessions, feeding therapy, and group programmes.
All under one roof.
From 45
minutes
From $100 per session
2-18 years
ONLINE
PROGRAMMES
Flexible support you can access from home, at your own pace.
Calm the Meltdowns: Sensory Support for Children:
Our online course helping parents and professionals understand and respond to meltdowns with confidence.
Toileting Masterclass:
A practical, no-fluff online session covering regulation, posture, interoception, and environment. Everything that makes the biggest difference with tricky toileting.
From 60
minutes
From $100
Parents
Professionals
WORKSHOPS
Behaviour is Communication: Let's Learn the Language
Professional development for kura and kōhanga staff, helping teachers understand what's really happening inside a child's body and brain.
The nervous system, sensory processing, and the foundations of attention and emotional regulation.
When staff understand the why beneath behaviour, classrooms shift from correction to connection.
Tamariki feel safer, calmer, and more ready to learn.
Available as staff meetings, teacher-only days, or half/full day sessions.
2026 bookings now open.
TESTIMONIALS
OUR MISSION
To help your child do whatever their heart desires either at kindergarten, home, school or in play with the goal of making resilient, confident, happy and awesome human beings.
