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Forbes Care is an enthusiastic Mobile Occupational Therapy Practice servicing South-East Queensland.

26/12/2025

Our Complex Home Mods team is out across SEQ every week, supporting clients through the process of creating safer and more accessible home environments.

With their tape measures ready and a strong understanding of the home-modification process, they specialise in navigating the complex details required for these projects to run smoothly.

We are proud of the work this team does. 🏡💙

24/12/2025

At Forbes Care, we know that tooth brushing isn’t a “simple” task for everyone — especially for our neurodivergent clients. Sensory overwhelm, taste and texture sensitivities, motor demands, and past negative experiences can all make this everyday routine feel really hard.

Here’s how our OTs support tooth brushing:
✨ We start with safety and trust — no pressure, no demands. Just understanding what feels hard, what feels okay, and what helps someone feel calm and in control.
✨ We collaborate on the routine together. Visuals, step-by-step guides, or photos of the client’s own bathroom help break the task down in a way that makes sense to them.
✨ We support sensory needs, not “behaviour.” That might mean trying taste-free toothpaste, using warm water, changing brush types, brushing while sitting, or adjusting mirror and sink set-ups.
✨ We use co-regulation and gentle scaffolding. Sometimes that looks like modelling in the mirror, brushing together, or taking it one small step at a time.
✨ We prioritise autonomy and choice — when to brush, how to brush, what tools to use, and what feels manageable.
✨ We build executive functioning supports if needed: visual schedules, habit stacking, bathroom labels, or simple reminders (only if the client wants them).

Our goal is never “perfect brushing twice a day.”
Our goal is safety, comfort, confidence, and a routine that works for the individual — not the other way around.

22/12/2025

Please join us in officially welcoming Sophie to the Forbes Care admin team! ✨
By now, many of you will have already spoken with her over the phone or received one of her friendly emails, and we’re so glad you’ve had the chance to experience her calm, organised and supportive approach.

Sophie has settled beautifully into the team over the past six weeks and is already a valued part of keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes. We’re excited to have her on board — and even more excited for you all to continue getting to know her!

18/12/2025

School Holidays Are Here — and Therapy Can Come Along for the Ride
School holidays shift the rhythm for many young people — new routines, new sensory environments, and lots of big feelings.

Ongoing OT during this time isn’t about doing more. It’s about supporting regulation, confidence, and connection in ways that feel right for your child.

Here’s how therapy can gently support the break:
🧩 Holiday-friendly routines
Flexible structures that honour your child’s pace, energy, and sensory needs.
🎨 Skill-building through meaningful play
Cooking, craft, nature walks, water play — everyday occupations become therapeutic opportunities.
🌱 Consistency that feels safe
Regular input can help maintain regulation and support wellbeing while routines shift.
📘 A smoother transition back to school
Small supports now can make returning to term routines feel calmer and more predictable.

And if your child needs a complete break from all therapy during the holidays —
that’s valid too. Rest is therapeutic. Nervous systems need downtime, and pausing can sometimes be exactly what helps a child thrive when school returns.

If you’d like help planning holiday rhythms or weaving gentle strategies into your child’s break, our OTs are here.

16/12/2025

From clinical tasks to admin coordination, our team works side-by-side to keep things moving efficiently for our community. What you see here is the real engine room: focused people, steady workflows, and a team committed to delivering high-quality support across SEQ. ✨

11/12/2025

Behind the scenes of quality OT support for DVA clients

Working with veterans requires clarity, steadiness, and a strong commitment to person-centred care. Recently, Michelle demonstrated each of these beautifully during a DVA appointment — showing the kind of clinical behaviours we value at Forbes Care.

Her approach included:
• clear explanations that supported informed decisions
• maintaining a respectful, grounded therapeutic space
• a warm, steady tone that helped build trust
• practical guidance around next steps and entitlements

These elements sit at the heart of excellence in veteran care, and they ensure clients feel supported.

For those accessing DVA services, the referral process is simple:
A GP completes the D904 form and sends it to hello@forbes.care.
Our team will organise the rest.

10/12/2025

A colourful end to 2025 for the Forbes Care team! 🎨✨
This year’s Christmas celebration took us to Frida’s in Mooloolaba, where everyone swapped clinical notes for paint palettes and let their creative sides run wild.

From bold colours to unexpected masterpieces, our team each created their own Frida Kahlo-inspired artwork — and the results were as unique and vibrant as the people who made them.

After painting, we wrapped up the night with a beautiful dinner together — good food, lots of laughs, and the perfect chance to celebrate another year of growth, teamwork and community impact. 💙
Here’s to creativity, connection, and an incredible team.

Bring on 2026! ✨

09/12/2025

A Quiet Win Worth Celebrating

At Forbes Care, we deeply value the thoughtful, behind-the-scenes work our OTs put into assessments, reports, and interdisciplinary communication.

Recently, one of our paediatric OTs, Hannah, received encouraging feedback from a client’s paediatrician after reviewing her report. The clinician shared that it provided clear clinical reasoning, comprehensive detail, and strong support for collaborative decision-making.

For us, this moment matters — not because of praise, but because it reflects the heart of high-quality practice:
📄 Clear, evidence-informed documentation
🤝 Professional, collaborative communication
🌱 Client-centred recommendations
🧩 Shared understanding of the child’s needs across the care team

High-quality reporting helps families, clinicians, educators, and support teams move forward with clarity and confidence.

We’re incredibly proud of the care, thoughtfulness, and consistency Hannah brings to her work each day. Moments like this remind us why thorough OT assessment and collaborative practice matter so much. ✨

05/12/2025

Ongoing therapy just works better when you’ve got an OT who’s consistent, supportive, and easy to team up with — and that’s Michelle. 💙✨

She works with clients over the long term using clear goals and practical strategies that translate into everyday routines and real-life confidence.

Michelle now has space for new ongoing therapy clients, so if you’ve been waiting for the right fit… this is your sign. 🙌

04/12/2025

🌿 Community Spotlight: Shelley – Parent Support Guide & Advocate for ND Families 🌿

We’re honoured to shine a light on Shelley Cassin, a Parent Support Guide and mum of three neurodivergent children, who has created a free online support group for mums navigating the complexities of raising ND kids.
Shelley’s why is powerful, real and deeply felt:

“I have 3 ND kids and a late-diagnosed ND husband. I’ve spent years advocating for my children through school meetings, therapies and systems that don’t always make it easy. It can be exhausting, overwhelming and incredibly isolating.
My ‘why’ is to support other mums — to show them they’re not alone and to create a community of people who truly understand what it’s like raising an ND child.”

Through her work as a Parent Support Guide, Shelley walks alongside mums one-on-one, offering space, tools and strategies to help them breathe, regulate and “put their own oxygen mask on first.”

But as she shares, many families who need support most are financially stretched or time-poor.
So she created a free, accessible group, open to all mums seeking community and connection.

✨ First session: Sunday, 7th December at 7:30pm
To join or learn more:
📧 Email Shelley: shelleycassin.psg@gmail.com
📱 Scan the QR code on the poster

This is meaningful, grassroots support — created by someone who’s walked the journey herself. We’re proud to share Shelley’s work with our community. 💙

03/12/2025

Shining a spotlight on our Clinical Lead, Bria, who recently spoke at the UQ OT Student Conference. ✨💙

Bria shared her incredible OT journey — from regional outreach work across Queensland and Western Australia, to flexing into Telehealth during COVID so she could continue supporting remote communities when they needed it most.

Her message to the next generation of OTs was clear:
take charge of your own learning, invest in yourself, stay curious, and remember that growth isn’t linear.
And in true Bria style, she kept it real.

She reminded students that overwhelm happens to all of us — and sometimes that looks like sitting in the car, having a cry, and eating KFC. And that’s okay.

We’re so proud to have leaders who bring wisdom, honesty, and humanity to the profession — and who inspire the future of occupational therapy with both courage and compassion.

02/12/2025

Supporting Toileting With Dignity, Skill & Confidence

At Forbes Care, we break toileting down into four key domains — because understanding each part helps us support clients in a way that is respectful, empowering, and tailored to their needs. 💛
Whether we’re working with young people or adults, toileting isn’t just a task — it’s a combination of developmental, physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional skills that all work together.

Here’s what we look for:
🚽 1. Toilet Readiness & Awareness
Signals, timing, interoception, body cues, emotional readiness, and understanding what the toilet routine involves.
For children, this means noticing patterns and supporting confidence.
For adults, it may involve rebuilding awareness following change, injury, or cognitive decline.
🧻 2. Physical & Motor Skills
Postural stability, transfers, clothing management, hand hygiene, and coordination.
We support clients to feel secure, safe, and capable — whether that looks like graded skill-building, equipment prescription, or strengthening routines.
🧠 3. Cognitive Processing & Sequencing
Remembering steps, problem-solving, initiation, attention, and following routines.
OTs break tasks into achievable pieces, build visual supports, and help clients develop strategies that make the routine feel predictable and manageable.
🌿 4. Sensory & Emotional Regulation
Lights, sounds, smells, textures, flushing — and the emotional responses that come with them.
We help clients understand their sensory needs, adapt the environment, and build coping strategies so toileting feels calm, safe, and in their control.

Across all ages, meaningful toileting support is about dignity, independence, and self-trust.
We meet clients where they are, work at their pace, and build skills that make everyday life just a little easier.

Because every person deserves to feel safe, capable, and respected in one of life’s most essential routines. 💛

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