Independence looks different for everyone. We build yours.
Occupational therapy at The Centered Space helps children and adults do the things that matter in their actual lives, from a child learning to manage a classroom to an adult setting up a home that finally works for them. We start with the person and their environment, build the supports around them, and meet you where life happens.
From a child's classroom to an adult's home that finally works.
Occupational therapy is about doing the things that make up your life. We work across the lifespan, and we change the environment before we ask you to change.
Here is the ground we cover, for children and adults alike.
Book a free OT consultThe ecosystem comes before the therapy.
We do not just do therapy. Before a single session, we look at the whole system around you. If you need a key worker, a transdisciplinary plan, or help with your NDIS supports, we sort that first. We will not start therapy on someone with no ecosystem around them, even an adult. Once the foundation is steady, the therapy actually works.
We put the key-worker hat on
Every clinician here is a trained Key Worker. We coordinate the whole team so you are not managing seven separate experts.
We stabilise first
Consults, supports, an NDIS consult if it is needed. We get the person steady before we build skills.
Goals built with you, not for you
Functional goals in your own words, tied to the life you actually want to live.
Where your feet are
Home, school, the cafe, the workplace, the community, or telehealth. A board that works in the clinic but not at the shop is not good enough.
Transdisciplinary by default
Speech and occupational therapy are not siloed. We share strategies across the team so the plan is one plan.
We will always find a way
If the usual path does not fit, we turn left. Creative is how we are wired, because we are neurodivergent too.
Therapy that sees the whole human.
Plenty of places offer OT. Here is what you will not find everywhere.
Book a free OT consultEnvironment first. We ask what needs to change in the room before we ask what needs to change in you.
Sensory accommodations are clinical, not optional, from the first appointment.
Regulation before performance. A dysregulated person cannot learn, so co-regulation is always the first job.
No goals aimed at suppressing stimming or making anyone look more normal. Goals belong to you.
We work across the lifespan, including adults too often told OT is just for children.
Co-produced goals. You and your family are equal partners, not the audience.
Real-life therapy, not textbook therapy.
We will literally meet you where life is at, where your feet are. Goals are not traditional goal writing. They are about what will make a real difference in your week: getting out the door in the morning, cooking a meal safely, managing a full day of work, a home set up so daily life is not a fight. And if the usual path does not fit, we will always find a way. We get creative, we pivot, and there is always a way.
Children, adults, and the people around them.
Children and families
Sensory, motor, play, self-care and school, with you as the expert on your own child.
Adults
Daily living, work and study, assistive technology, and home and living assessments, held for the long term, not referred and discharged.
Support Coordinators and referrers
A provider you can send anyone to, with clear communication, sound reasoning and honest timeframes.
From first hello to therapy that fits.
No mystery, no pressure. Here is the path.
A free OT consult
A real conversation about daily life and what would actually help.
Stabilise the ecosystem
If supports, coordination or an NDIS consult need to happen first, we do that.
Assessment, the right way
Function and environment, in clinic, at home, in the community or by telehealth.
Goals built with you
Functional, first person, tied to your life.
Therapy where life happens, then review
We deliver, we train the people around you, and we adjust as things change.
How NDIS funding works for occupational therapy.
We will always be straight with you about funding. We help you understand your plan, and we never bill you to navigate the NDIS.
NDIS funding may cover occupational therapy where it aligns with the participant's goals and approved plan. Not all NDIS plans include occupational therapy supports.
The NDIS price guide rate for therapy supports. Quoted per person based on goals and complexity.
- A clear plan for your supports, in plain language
- Sessions where life happens, billed in line with the price guide
- Travel and non-face-to-face time only where it genuinely applies
- We never charge you to help you understand the NDIS
Rate shown follows the official NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits for therapy supports and may change when the guide is updated. We confirm current rates with you in writing before any work begins.
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Clinical backbone. Human heart.
We are a neurodivergence-affirming team, and we are genuinely like family. Every clinician is a trained Key Worker before they ever work here, so the person in front of you sees the whole picture, not just their discipline. Behind every person we support is the whole team: quarterly whole-team case conferences, fortnightly clinical case conferences across disciplines, an internal NDIS specialist we meet with every week, and individual clinical supervision. That is what makes us different, and it is why people stay with us for years.
Frequently asked
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- Prefer email? Reach us at admin@thecenteredspace.au
- Support Coordinator or referrer? Download the occupational therapy guide (PDF)
- Not sure where to start? Ask us for a free OT consult first.
- In person across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Northern New South Wales, plus home, community and Australia-wide telehealth.