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Thriving Through Nature

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Thriving Through Nature

We offer a unique nature based occupational therapy and counselling service for children.

11/03/2026

NEW EASTER HOLIDAYS OT PLAYGROUP!!
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Join us these school holidays for a small, supportive playgroup designed for young children and their parents. Our sessions combine nature play, connection, and gentle therapeutic support in a relaxed outdoor environment.
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This playgroup offers a space for families to connect with one another, share experiences, and explore play in a way that honours each child’s unique neurology.
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Dates & Times: Week 1 (April School Holidays)
Tuesday April 7th
Wednesday April 8th
Thursday April 9th
(attendance required all 3 days)
Two session times available each day:
🍄 9:00am – 10:00am
🍄 10:30am – 11:30am
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Who Can Attend:
Children aged 3–4 years and their parents/caregivers.
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What to Expect:
Sessions are semi-structured and guided by occupational therapists, with a focus on child-led exploration. Each day will include a planned nature-based activity such as:
🪵 Sensory and messy play
🪵 Pretend and imaginative play
🪵 Food play
🪵 Nature scavenger hunts
🪵 Open-ended nature exploration
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Children are always welcome to engage at their own pace, and there is no pressure to participate in any activity.
Therapists will also be available to provide gentle guidance and support around topics such as:
🐨 Types of play and play development
🐨 Supporting social connection
🐨 Understanding your child’s needs through a neuroaffirming lens
🐨 Topics important to your family
🐨 Families are encouraged to share what they would like support with, and we will weave these discussions throughout the week.
*contact info@thrivingthroughnature.com.au to confirm interest*

09/03/2026

BIKE SKILLS GROUPS ARE BACK! 🚲
These Easter school holidays we are returning with our beloved ‘Learn to Ride’ Bike Skills Groups!
Delivered by our lovely OTs, your child will be supported in building confidence, balance, coordination, and road safety skills while making new peer connections and having fun. This skills group spans across two 90 minute sessions:
🚲 9:00am: Ages 5-8
🚲 10:30am: Ages 9-12
*Send an email to info@thrivingthroughnature.com.au to confirm interest and enrolment.

04/03/2026

🌲PARENT CONNECT GROUP🌲
Access our new adult program tailored to parents and carers of neurodivergent children seeking connection, education, and support guided by neuroaffirming therapists!!
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These groups aim to support your child’s therapeutic goals while uplifting parent and carer wellbeing within a confidential and evidence-based space. Providing psycho-education on fortnightly topics, these sessions will be shaped and guided by the knowledge and lived-experiences of each individual, aiming to combat parent and carer isolation while empowering your home and strengthening your child’s safest and biggest supporter… You 💚
🌲 Available during school hours, beginning in Term 2.
🌲 Fortnightly attendance required.
🌲 Connect with other Neurodivergent parents and carers.
🌲 Aimed to empower both the parent and child under a neuro-affirming lens.
🌲 Parent-led topics and psycho-education.
🌲 Confidential therapy service aimed to minimise parent isolation and expand parent wellbeing, confidence and knowledge of neurodivergence
*Enquire via email or website*

03/02/2026

🍄 PEER SPOT AVAILABLE!! 🌿
We have just a few spots left in our Mondays 2pm Nature Group. These weekly peer groups offer a regulating and natural environment to build safe connections and meaningful skills aligned with your goals. Therapists provide a neuro-affirming lens within a child-led approach, allowing your child to feel empowered, heard, and be their most authentic selves! ☀️🐢🐨
*Enquire online to confirm interest*

14/01/2026

🌿 2026 ENROLMENTS NOW OPEN FOR OUR EARLY YEARS OT NATURE GROUPS (ages 3-5) 🌿
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🐨 Weekly play-based therapy sessions led by our lovely OTs. Providing a gentle, child-led, and nature-based space for our kiddos to grow and learn. Parents remain present during session, but we also support growing confidence in separating from parents safely.
🐢 Scaffolding social confidence and meaningful, safe peer connections within real-time and real life peer interactions.
🐨 Supporting developing body awareness and body confidence through movement and play.
🐢 Space for children to experience, understand, and move through big feelings within a safe and regulating outdoor environment.
🐨 Increased access to safe, trusted, and attuned adults for co-regulation and emotional learning.
🐢 Focus on uplifting our kiddos across social, emotional, physical, and neuro-developmental domains.
🐨 Delivered under a neuro-affirming lens to ensure each kiddo can grow as their most authentic and empowered self!
🐢 Decreased costs due to lowered group session duration (60 minutes total billed):
🌿45 minutes of direct therapy
🌿 5-10 minutes of parent feedback after each session
🌿 5-10 minutes of clinical notes and session preparation
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**Sessions occur weekly throughout DepEd term 1 calendar. Termly commitment starting February 3rd.
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21/12/2025

🐨 Peer spot just opened up! 🐨
One of our beloved Nature Groups has room for one more curious kiddo 🌿
🌿 Wednesdays 9:30am
🌿 Ages 6-8yrs

🍄Neuro-affirming, child-led, nature and play-based approach
🍄‍🟫Supporting body awareness, communication, and emotional regulation skills while developing safe connections within real-time opportunities and experiences
🍄 Term commitment beginning 4th of February 2026

10/10/2025

A brief reminder that today is International Mental Health Day. We want to acknowledge the close relationship between neurodiversity and mental health. Understanding and advocacy starts with inclusive access. Access to support, diagnosis, flexibility, all under the foundation of affirming and accepting brain diversity are integral in developing identity, confidence, and empowerment. When support is aligned with how neurodiverse brains actually function, rather than setting expectations that fit only a traditional and allistic mould, we truly can begin to understand our needs and appropriate strategies to benefit mental health. To all the rainbow brains out there: we see you and accept you!!
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*Call 000 or 1300 555 788 (MHERL PERTH METRO) for mental health emergencies.

03/10/2025

Our Bike Skills Groups are halfway complete for these school holidays and we wanted to thank all families who attended and signed up for our sessions 🌿🍄✨
Learning to ride a bike is such a special childhood milestone and our therapists often express such gratitude to be part of the pivotal moments in motor-growth and self-confidence! 🚲💛
Our Bike Skills Groups aren’t just about balance and pedals, but about confidence, independence, and the joy of achieving something new while making meaningful and safe connections. Watching our kiddos experience that magical moment of not only their motor-planning all finally making sense, but that moment where they start to believe in themselves, let go, and totally go for it is something we will always treasure.
From our team to you; thank you 🚲
*Artwork courtesy of one of our very own Bike Skills Alumni*

09/09/2025

Welcome Djilba 🌼
Wildflower season is in full bloom here at Thriving Through Nature!

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Perry Lakes Reserve
Perth, WA

Opening Hours

Tuesday	8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 5:30pm

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+61422081181

Website

https://www.thrivingthroughnature.com.au/

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