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Sunshine Coast Occupational Therapy

Embracing every mind, nurturing every path

At Kalos Therapy, we embrace neurodiversity, providing tailored, strengths-based support for individuals of all abilities. 

We offer occupational therapy for individuals experiencing intellectual, developmental, social emotional, and mental health challenges. Kalos Therapy specialises in providing services to individuals between the ages of 7 – 21, however can provide services to those above the age of 3 and into adulthood. We cannot currently support aged care clients.

At Kalos Therapy, our intervention is both effective and enjoyable, fostering growth through play and creativity. 

About Us, here at

Kalos Therapy

Kalos Therapy is a neurodiversity-affirming therapy practice on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. We specialise in providing occupational therapy services for children, teens, and adults, with a focus on supporting individuals with learning challenges, intellectual disabilities, neurodivergence, and mental health needs. At Kalos Therapy, we believe in a strengths-based approach, where every person’s unique abilities are embraced and celebrated. 

Our mission is to create a welcoming and inclusive environment where clients feel empowered to grow, learn, and thrive. We tailor our services to meet the specific needs of each individual, offering personalised support that builds confidence and fosters independence. Whether through play-based therapy for children or skill-building for teenagers and adults, we aim to make therapy engaging and meaningful. 

As a Sunshine Coast-based practice, we are dedicated to supporting our local community with compassionate and professional care. At Kalos Therapy, we understand that every journey is different, and we’re here to walk alongside you as you navigate life’s challenges. With a team committed to acceptance, fun, and holistic well-being, we are excited to make a difference in the lives of our clients.

At Kalos Therapy, we believe in building skills through connection, fun, and understanding.

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Therapies and Assessments

Our team are passionate about supporting individuals with intellectual, developmental, social emotional, and mental health challenges. We specialise in providing services to individuals between the ages of 7 – 21, however can provide services to those above the age of 3 and into adulthood.

 

Therapy Sessions

We can provide ongoing therapeutic intervention sessions in our Caloundra clinic, your home, in the Sunshine Coast community, or via telehealth (video chat or phone call). Read more about our intervention supports here. 

 

Assessments

Kalos Therapy offers a variety of assessments and reports, including:

  • Standard Occupational Therapy assessment 
  • Sensory Assessments 
  • Autism Assessments 
  • Functional Capacity Assessment (FCA) 
  • Individualised Living Options (FCA+ILO) 
  • Supported Independent Living (FCA+SIL)
  • NDIS Access Assessments
  • Subsidised NDIS Access Assessments (coming soon) 

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Kalos Therapy - Sunshine Coast Occupational Therapy

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Kids, teens, adults 🏡 Therapy, FCAs, SIL/ILO 🌻 Neurodivergence 🧸 Child development ✨ Social-emotional 📚 Executive functions 🌀 Mental health ☀️ Sensory
  • Therapy doesn’t always look like “therapy” - sometimes our OT sessions include impromptu fashion parades 🤪 Our long term goal is to be able to tie our 👟 We’re starting with making fun things out of Wikki Stix before we move onto some of the more specific movements to learn tying shoelaces 💭 and who said we couldn’t have some fun along the way!
  • Meltdowns and tantrums often get lumped into the same category… but they’re actually *very* different experiences. A tantrum is usually about wanting something. A meltdown is about the nervous system becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes what looks like “bad behaviour” is actually a brain saying I can’t cope right now. When we understand the difference, our response changes too. Less punishment, more support, more regulation 💚
  • One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
  • We love jumbo tweezers!! They work on so many skills, like… 💪🏻 hand strength 🤲🏻 bilateral coordination 🤔 motor planning 💡 attention and concentration 👀 visual perception ⏰ timing Can you think of any others? 💭
  • Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
  • Sometimes we forget how much we’ve already made it through. The stressful days, the overwhelming seasons, the moments where we genuinely didn’t know how we were going to cope. But here you are. Still going. Still trying. Still showing up 🧡
  • I don’t ✨ hate✨ Zones of Regulation, I just don’t love how it’s often taught 😅 When kids learn that green = good and red = bad, we accidentally teach them that some emotions aren’t okay. Anger isn’t wrong. Excitement isn’t bad. High energy isn’t a negative thing. Regulation isn’t about being calm all the time 🌿 It’s about having the right level of energy for what you’re doing ⚽📚
  • Every now and then we rotate the books in our waiting room 📚 Biiiig big nostalgia with our Pamela Allen books 🐮🐄 know any others? 🤔
  • I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
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Therapy doesn’t always look like “therapy” - sometimes our OT sessions include impromptu fashion parades 🤪 Our long term goal is to be able to tie our 👟 We’re starting with making fun things out of Wikki Stix before we move onto some of the more specific movements to learn tying shoelaces 💭 and who said we couldn’t have some fun along the way!
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Meltdowns and tantrums often get lumped into the same category… but they’re actually *very* different experiences. A tantrum is usually about wanting something. A meltdown is about the nervous system becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes what looks like “bad behaviour” is actually a brain saying I can’t cope right now. When we understand the difference, our response changes too. Less punishment, more support, more regulation 💚
Meltdowns and tantrums often get lumped into the same category… but they’re actually *very* different experiences. A tantrum is usually about wanting something. A meltdown is about the nervous system becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes what looks like “bad behaviour” is actually a brain saying I can’t cope right now. When we understand the difference, our response changes too. Less punishment, more support, more regulation 💚
Meltdowns and tantrums often get lumped into the same category… but they’re actually *very* different experiences. A tantrum is usually about wanting something. A meltdown is about the nervous system becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes what looks like “bad behaviour” is actually a brain saying I can’t cope right now. When we understand the difference, our response changes too. Less punishment, more support, more regulation 💚
Meltdowns and tantrums often get lumped into the same category… but they’re actually *very* different experiences. A tantrum is usually about wanting something. A meltdown is about the nervous system becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes what looks like “bad behaviour” is actually a brain saying I can’t cope right now. When we understand the difference, our response changes too. Less punishment, more support, more regulation 💚
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Meltdowns and tantrums often get lumped into the same category… but they’re actually *very* different experiences. A tantrum is usually about wanting something. A meltdown is about the nervous system becoming overwhelmed. Sometimes what looks like “bad behaviour” is actually a brain saying I can’t cope right now. When we understand the difference, our response changes too. Less punishment, more support, more regulation 💚
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One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
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One of my favourite therapy games right now is Perspective Detectives 🕵️ We read a clue card and try to figure out all the different things that might be going on. There’s no single “correct” answer. Just lots of possibilities. Sometimes putting on a detective hat or pretending to be a different character makes it easier to see things from another angle 🔎
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We love jumbo tweezers!! They work on so many skills, like… 💪🏻 hand strength 🤲🏻 bilateral coordination 🤔 motor planning 💡 attention and concentration 👀 visual perception ⏰ timing Can you think of any others? 💭
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Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
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Being a therapist means seeing people on some of their hardest days 🌻 Something I wish more clients knew is that therapy isn’t about having the perfect answers or showing up with everything figured out. Some days simply arriving is the biggest step. Some days the goal is just getting through the session. And that’s okay. Therapy is a space where we can go at your pace, change direction when something doesn’t fit, and figure things out together 😌
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Sometimes we forget how much we’ve already made it through. The stressful days, the overwhelming seasons, the moments where we genuinely didn’t know how we were going to cope. But here you are. Still going. Still trying. Still showing up 🧡
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Sometimes we forget how much we’ve already made it through. The stressful days, the overwhelming seasons, the moments where we genuinely didn’t know how we were going to cope. But here you are. Still going. Still trying. Still showing up 🧡
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I don’t ✨ hate✨ Zones of Regulation, I just don’t love how it’s often taught 😅 When kids learn that green = good and red = bad, we accidentally teach them that some emotions aren’t okay. Anger isn’t wrong. Excitement isn’t bad. High energy isn’t a negative thing. Regulation isn’t about being calm all the time 🌿 It’s about having the right level of energy for what you’re doing ⚽📚
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Every now and then we rotate the books in our waiting room 📚 Biiiig big nostalgia with our Pamela Allen books 🐮🐄 know any others? 🤔
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I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
@kalos.therapy
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I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in OT. Less focus on compliance. More focus on nervous systems. Less “sit still”. More “what does your body need?”. Growth in this field means listening, unlearning, and doing better when we know better 🌿💭
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