Clinical Consultancy Services
Clinical consultancy is available to government and community organisations, justice and custodial services, health and disability teams, vocational and education providers, legal and advocacy agencies, and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations. The practice is based in Boorloo (Perth), with consultancy available across Western Australia and nationally.
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Consultancy draws on contemporary occupational therapy practice, evidence informed frameworks and culturally responsive approaches, with a focus on human rights and occupational justice. Recommendations consider the functional, cognitive, cultural, social and environmental factors that shape how people participate in everyday life, and how systems and services can respond more effectively to these needs.
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Get in touch by email or phone to discuss what you need. A written scope of work and quote will be provided.
Consultancy Services
Service Design & Implementation
Support with the design, implementation and review of occupational therapy services across forensic, secure, custodial, rehabilitation and community settings. This includes clinical governance, models of care, care pathways and transition programs. Service design is informed by occupational science, occupational justice, and social and emotional wellbeing frameworks, with the aim of ensuring services are contextually relevant, rights based and responsive to the people they serve.
Research & Evaluation
Support with research projects, reviews, project design, and program and service evaluation. Clinical areas of interest include traumatic brain injury, FASD, disability, mental health, suicide prevention, trauma, substance use, and family and domestic violence. Broader areas include justice health, regional and remote health, and projects committed to reducing the over incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Research is guided by community governance.
Environmental Assessment
Occupational therapy review of prisons, forensic units, secure settings and community environments using a transactional person - environment - occupation lens. Assessments consider sensory, cultural, cognitive and psychosocial needs alongside how the physical environment impacts occupational performance, dignity and safety. Recommendations are intended to improve participation and wellbeing, and to reduce restrictive practices such as restraint and seclusion.
Secondary Clinical Consultation
Case level consultation for teams supporting people with complex cognitive, neurodevelopmental, psychosocial or forensic support needs, in custody or in the community. Consultation draws on functional, behavioural, and cognitive formulation, social and emotional wellbeing frameworks, and critical reflexivity to support assessment, intervention planning and case review. Guidance is tailored to the needs of the person and the resources of the team or support network around them.
For Justice Services
Consultancy for prisons, youth detention, community corrections and justice agencies on how brain injury, disability and mental health conditions affect occupational performance in custody, during throughcare and on return to community. Advice aims to equip staff to recognise these needs and respond in ways that improve participation, wellbeing and relational outcomes. This is intended to support quality of life and meaningful occupation for people serving long sentences, as well as supporting reduced reoffending and re-integration.
For Legal & Advocacy Services
Occupational therapy consultation on how disability, brain injury, and mental health conditions affect a person's functioning and participation in legal processes. Guidance for legal teams and other stakeholders addresses communication supports, functional capacity and practical participation needs. This is intended to help legal processes better account for a person’s individual profile, with the aim of supporting fair treatment and access to appropriate community supports.
Training, Programs & Education
Tailored training, workshops, guest lectures and program input for organisations, services and universities. Content can be adapted for clinical teams, frontline staff and students. Training draws on clinical experience across metropolitan, regional and remote practice, and can be co-designed with services to help address specific workforce development needs.
Policy & Submissions
Occupational therapy input into policy, inquiries and submissions. Input is informed by occupational science and clinical practice across metropolitan, regional and remote Western Australia, and centres the occupational rights of people who are often underrepresented in policy processes.
Occupational therapy consultancy in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and services working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across metropolitan Perth, regional and remote Western Australia. Work is led by Community, with occupational therapy offered as a resource in support of community priorities and self determination. Areas of practice include individual and group clinical consultation, service and program development, resource development, and workforce support. Practice is responsive to local context and informed by a commitment to cultural safety and strengths based ways of working.