Assistance Areas

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy Assistants build on strengths and difficulties and support participants with practical solutions to increase individual skills. Occupational Therapist can support participants with fine and gross motor skills, sensory processing, daily living skills and social skills just to name a few.

Social Work

Social work assistants provide support and counselling to assist with conflict resolution, understanding relationships and friendships and support in major life changes and trauma.

Speech Therapy

Speech Therapists support participants with communication disorders including all areas of verbal and non-verbal language, including but not limited to understanding of language, listening, speaking, reading and writing and social skills.

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy Assistants support participants to build musculoskeletal development, motor impairment, orthopedic issues, rehabilitation. Coordination issues and developmental challenges through a range of treatment programs designed by a qualified physiotherapist.

Dietetics

Dietitian assistants will promote positive behaviours concerning nutrition and dietary benefits. They will teach and inform participants about the many benefits of nutrition and the impact it has on health and disease prevention. They will support participants with eating complications and sensory issues in relation to fussy eating.

Exercise Physiology

Exercise physiology Assistants will promote the benefits of activity to improve mobility, manage pain, increase strength, improve fitness, improve walking gait and balance and generally improving quality of life, independence and wellbeing.

Education

Education Assistants will support participants in skill building and to implement learnings directed by an allied health professional and possibly educators. Education assistants will determine the appropriate learning styles of the participants and adapt their delivery as required.

Psychology

Assistance to support participants with understanding, prevention and treatment of developmental, social and emotional, cognitive processing by obtaining a good understanding of thought processes and actions through supporting positive resolutions which may cause the behaviours and emotions of concern.

Mentors

Mentors are individuals who share knowledge, experience and understanding. Mentors provide effective techniques and skill development with the aim to act as role models. A mentor promotes skill development and aims to build self-confidence, independence and capacity to the person they are mentoring.

Music therapy/Art therapy

Music and Art therapists provide the opportunity for people to express emotions within an atmosphere of comfort and relaxation. Individuals may join in the making of music or choose to listen - or both. Therapeutic experiences may include song writing, music performances, vocal or musical improvisation. Art therapy involves the use of creative techniques such as drawing, painting, collage, colouring, or sculpting to help people express themselves artistically.  Benefits from therapy can include; improvement of self-management, decrease symptoms of depression build self-esteem and reduce stress, just to name a few.

Just Therapy is committed to providing participants with high quality Therapy Assistants.