Nicole Woods (MOT), BAppSC graduated with an undergraduate degree in 2007. She continued her education to complete a Masters of Occupational Therapy (MOT), where she focused most of her practical training across a range of paediatric fields including public health settings, schools and private practice. This provided a range of experience in working with children who have various challenges associated with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, sensory processing disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, FASD and global developmental delay. Since completing her Masters in 2007, Nicole has gone on to complete further units of continuing education including:

 

• Getting Kids in Sync presented by Genevieve Jereb,

• Building Blocks for Sensory Integration by Sheila Frick,

• New Treatment Perspectives (Colleen Hacker)

• How does your engine run: The Alert Program for Self Regulation by Carla Cay Williams 

• Basic course of DIR®/ Floortime™ 

• Level 2 DIR/Floortime training through the ICDL Foundation.

• Therapressure© Brushing Protocol - Sensory Defensiveness, presented by Patricia and Julia Wilbarger

• Therapeutic Listening© under Sheila Frick and Colleen Hacker.

• Focus on Treatment Workshop presented by Sheila Frick

• M.O.R.E program and Treatment Intensive (Oetter & Richter). 

• Clinical Reasoning and treatment planning for Praxis under Dr Teresa A. May-Benson 

• Attended Sensory Integration: The essentials to understanding the theory, neuroscience and research under Professor Anita Bundy and Professor Shelly Lane.

• The Listening Program by Advanced Brain Technologies.

• The Tomatis Method trained

• Bessell Van Der Kolk’s’ Trauma-informed treatment. 

• Normans Doidge ‘The Brain that changes itself’. 

• SOS Approach to Feeding, a program to address problematic feeding behaviours.

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Nicole is one of the few Australian Occupational Therapists trained to use and administer Auditory Integration Training (AIT), having been actively mentored and trained by clinicians direct from the U.S.

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Nicole enjoyed being involved with the amazing Camp Jabiru an Australian based camp that aims to combine a typical camp experience with the addition of therapeutic intervention. Nicole has been fortunate to be group leader across a number of years that the camp has been running. Nicole also supported Linda Collier in a research program through Sydney University. The program investigated the effects of sensory integration therapy in the school. Committed to family-centred care, Nicole enjoys working alongside a number of therapists who together provide a quality service that supports children and their families.