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The Wild Orange Tree

Embodied pelvic care & integrated mental health support for women and mothers

The Wild Orange Tree offers holistic health and wellness support that empowers women to navigate each stage of their motherhood journey. I am an occupational therapist, post-natal doula and practitioner of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®. By merging ancient wisdom and professional training I aim to be a source of information and support for women as they prepare, transition and grow into motherhood. Through this passion for women's health I want to see women thrive, embrace their feminine, and achieve their birthing and mothering potential.

10/03/2026

Across so many areas of women’s health, something important is missing.

Support often focuses on symptoms, diagnoses, or treatment.

But what about the impact on daily life?

The shift in identity.
The renegotiation of roles.
The invisible mental load.
The sensory and nervous system changes.
The ways routines, relationships, and participation are reshaped.

Pregnancy.
Postpartum.
Fertility journeys.
Menstrual health.
Perimenopause.

These are profound occupational transitions.

And this is exactly where occupational therapy belongs.

Ground & Grow is my group professional mentoring space for OTs who feel drawn to working in women’s health and want support integrating an occupational lens into this work.

Together we will explore:
🍊 occupational transitions across the female lifespan
🍊 translating OT theory into real-world practice
🍊 practical ways to support role shifts in matrescence and beyond

This is the final call for registrations.

If you’ve been feeling the pull toward this work, I would love to welcome you into the space.

Our first online Zoom session is on Friday March 20 at 1pm AEDT, repeated at three weekly intervals (changing to 1pm AEST) for a total of five sessions. A What’s App group will connect us and create opportunity for further learning between these sessions. Investment is $550 upfront or 3 x payments of $195.

Comment below or send me a DM and I’ll share further details.

26/02/2026

So… you’re an OT.

You learned about occupation, identity, transition, environment, meaning-making.
You were taught to see the whole human.

And then life happened.

Pregnancy.
Birth.
Mothering.
Perimenopause.

A changing relationship with your body and headspace.
A transition that reshaped how you moved through the world.

And you found yourself wondering:

Where is occupational therapy in this?

Because what you were living was deeply occupational - roles shifting, routines disrupted, sensory worlds changing, identity evolving.

Yet OT wasn’t always clearly named there.

Many therapists quietly start asking:
Is women’s health within OT scope?
Can we support mothers?
Where do I fit in this work?

You’re not the only one asking.

A growing community of OTs are reclaiming this space - integrating maternal health, pelvic health, mental health, embodiment, and life transitions into practice.

🍊 Ground & Grow was created for this moment.

An online group mentoring experience for OTs wanting to connect lived experience with clinical practice and grow confidence in women’s & maternal health work.

You don’t have to figure it out alone anymore.

✨ Starts March 20
✨ 5 live online sessions (recorded) + WhatsApp community
✨ $550 upfront or $195 x 3 payments

Comment GROW or send me a DM to learn more or secure your place 🧡

25/02/2026

“I feel drawn to women’s health… but I don’t know where I fit.”

I hear this from occupational therapists all the time.

You might be:
• noticing more clients navigating motherhood, hormones, or identity transitions
• sensing occupational impacts that don’t quite fit existing frameworks
• wanting to work differently - but not wanting to abandon OT foundations

The truth is, women’s health practice doesn’t begin with learning more techniques.

It begins with learning to see differently.

In this round of professional group mentoring, we will slow down clinical reasoning together.

Each session is grounded in an occupational therapy model of practice, using case studies to explore how women’s lived experiences across life stages shape occupational participation, identity, and wellbeing.

No pressure to be an expert.
Not even an expectation that you already work in women’s health.

Just space to think, reflect, and grow alongside other therapists.

🧡 Five 1.5-hour Zoom sessions (recorded)
🧡 Every three weeks in a small mentoring group
🧡 Designed for occupational therapists

If you’ve been looking for a way to grow your confidence without overwhelm — this might be your next step.

Comment GROW to get more information, or send me a message if you would like to join us when we kick off on March 20.

23/02/2026

A little bit more info about who Ground and Grow is for - my next round of group professional mentoring for OT’s who want to deepen their connection to their professional roots and build their confidence in spotlighting women’s health as a factor that impacts occupational performance.

Send me a DM if you would like more info or are keen to join us when we kick off on March 22 🧡🍊

22/02/2026

I have the honour and privilege to work in private practice and focus specifically on women’s and maternal health.

But women’s health doesn’t only live in specialised clinics or niche roles.

It shows up wherever occupational therapists work with female bodies, identities, and life transitions.

It shows up in paediatrics…
When a young person is navigating puberty, menstrual cycles, body changes, and the emotional work of becoming.

In rehabilitation wards…
Where a woman adjusting to spinal cord injury quietly wonders how intimacy, fertility, or motherhood might look now.

In mental health services…
Where burnout, caregiving load, hormonal shifts, and invisible expectations shape daily occupations.

In chronic pain clinics…
Where pelvic pain, endometriosis, or persistent fatigue reshape participation long before they are named.

In community rehab….
Where perimenopuase may be showing up just as much as the physical or cognitive impact of stroke.

In aged care…
Where menopause, continence changes, loss, and identity transitions are held without always being recognised as women’s health.

Women’s health is not a setting.
It is a lens.

And occupational therapy offers something uniquely powerful here - an understanding of doing, being, becoming, and belonging across the seasons of a woman’s life.

Many OTs are already doing this work - they just don’t yet have language, frameworks, or professional community to hold it as women’s health.

That’s why I created Ground & Grow — a mentoring space for occupational therapists who feel called toward women’s health practice. Whether that is in private practice, or in all the spaces we can address the unique occupational needs of women and girls.

Because women’s health isn’t somewhere you arrive.
It’s something you begin to see — everywhere. 🍊

If you’re interested in finding out more about my group professional mentoring offering starting soon, comment GROW or send me a DM. I’d love to share the details with you.

20/02/2026

This is especially for my occupational therapy colleagues…

Are you working, or wanting to work, in the women’s health space?

Do you feel a calling to ground down into your occupational therapy roots and re-engage with our models of practice through a feminine lens?

Do you want to grow in clarity and confidence in how to support the occupational needs of women in various life stages and seasons?

🍊This is an invitation to join my upcoming group mentoring circle. It will consist of five online sessions with community and connection through a What’s App in between.🍊

We will use case studies, curiosity and co-creation to ground and grow ourselves - strengthening clinical reasoning, deepening professional identity, and expanding our capacity to hold the complexity of women’s lives and transitions.

This is not about learning a rigid framework or becoming a “perfect” practitioner. It is about returning to the heart of occupational therapy - doing, being, becoming and belonging - and learning how to practice from a place that feels rooted, relational and sustainable. 🧡

If you’ve been longing for thoughtful professional reflection, supportive community, and space to integrate who you are with how you practice, I would love to welcome you.

PS: This group is open to those who participated in my previous group professional mentoring offerings.

🍊Expressions of interest are now open.
Comment GROW or send me a DM for details.

&Grow

19/02/2026

There are seasons in life that exist in the in-between.

Infertility
Pregnancy
Postpartum
Perimenopause

Spaces where the old self and ways of being no longer fit, but the new self hasn’t fully arrived. Spaces we often didn’t choose - and sometimes we don’t want to be in.

Occupational therapy offers a different lens here.

Through doing, being, becoming and belonging, we gently support how life is lived inside the transition. Not just how it looks when you reach the other side.

Because even in uncertainty, identity is reshaping. Meaning is forming. And you are still living your life, right here in the middle 🧡🍊

13/02/2026

When you can climb up high you gain a new perspective.

Nothing changes but you can see things differently.

And I think this is what therapy for mothers is able to do.

We can’t always change a lot about the context and circumstances in which we mother.

But when we are offered time and space to pause, we can climb from the valley of self blame, self doubt and inadequacy to the mountain top of self compassion and see our mothering journey for what it is.

Navigation of impossible standards, pressure to disconnect from ourselves, and pathologisation of the wrong things.

And from this new perspective we can make conscious choices about how we want to respond and what is going to matter to us.

Maybe nothing changes, but the view can feel a lot lighter and clearer 🍊🧡

11/02/2026

Tight rope walking and motherhood.

Who thought they might have something in common.

This powerful analogy is something that has come up a number of my client sessions recently. And imaging the challenges of motherhood in this way has given a lot of clarity around why something feels hard and what actions someone might want to take.

I want to share four things that I take away from this analogy, and I wonder if they are helpful for you.

06/02/2026

A story about a referral that made me smile.

The changes to our everyday doing is one of the biggest things we sometimes have to navigate as mothers. And this is the work that occupational therapists do so well.

These changes are worthy of support 🧡🍊

05/02/2026

So when is it time to seek support?

The perfect mother myth tells us that a good mother should be able to cope.

That needing help is weakness. That needing guidance means there is something wrong with you. That you mustn’t be tough enough.

This is so far from the truth, yet this unspoken expectation can keep so many people trapped and afraid to reach out.

Matrescence and mother-becoming are enormous transitions that were designed to be done in community and with support. Feeling less alone and accessing some practical strategies can make a huge difference.

Some signs that it might be time to reach out…

🍊 you constantly feel on edge

🍊 rest doesn’t feel restorative

🍊 your anger surprises you

🍊 you feel disconnected from yourself or your body

🍊 the mental load feels unmanageable

🍊 you keep thinking “I should be coping better”

You also don’t have to be at breaking point to seek support. Mother support can be preventative, gentle and paced.

You’re allowed to reach out before things unravel 🧡

My DMs are open if you would like chat about what support for you could look like.

02/02/2026

Many of the women and mothers I work with aren’t falling apart.

They are functioning but at a cost.

They carry an invisible mental load.

They feel anger or resentment they don’t recognise.

They are deeply sensitive to noise, touch and demands.

Their body holds stories their mind hasn’t caught up to yet.

They aren’t drowning. But it’s taking a lot of effort to swim, and they are starting to wonder how much longer they can do it.

These patterns aren’t flaws, but clues to what is going on underneath. They are often protective responses to an overwhelmed system, or a body doing its best to keep you safe.

And there are gentle, compassionate ways to make more sense of your story, support your body, head space and nervous system, and grow into this emerging version of you.

You don’t need to be in absolute crisis to deserve support. To be curious about matrescence,and the ways you be and do in the world.

If you think it might be time, I’d love to be a part of your team.

🍊 Medicare rebates available
🍊 DM me find out more

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Coolum Beach, QLD

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Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://thewildorangetree.com.au/

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The Wild Orange Tree is a place to connect to your body so you can navigate mothering transitions with self-love confidence and vitality. With a focus on pelvic health, mental health and menstrual cycles, I support women from pre conception to postpartum and beyond. My name is Janelle and I am a mother, occupational therapist, Arvigo® practitioner, Holistic Pelvic Care© provider and Birth Preparation and Healing practitioner.

I am drawn to the innate wisdom for mother care and healing from within traditional cultures, and combine this with my professional knowledge and skills. Through individual and group sessions, I support women to prepare, transition and grow into the mother that they want or need to be. Because embodied women make powerful mothers.