Puzzles Occupational Therapy is an innovative therapy service operating in Western and South Western Sydney.
Why Puzzles?
Every individual has their own strengths, challenges and way of seeing the world. Our role isn’t to make everyone fit the same picture, it’s to understand each person’s unique pieces and work together to build meaningful solutions that support independence, participation and quality of life.
About
We are a team of experienced and passionate therapists who are dedicated in supporting clients and their families. At PuzzlesOT we ensure the implementation of the latest evidence based intervention and work hard to deliver a family and client centred approach to therapy.
We offer mobile home, school and community visits all across Western and South Western Sydney.
Puzzles Occupational Therapy provides a capacity building approach to therapy. This ensures we aim to support our clients and their community develop in the necessary areas to achieve their goals. As a mobile service, we travel to the person and conduct therapy in their preferred environment.
Therapy intervention is individually tailored in collaboration with the person and their support systems.
In addition to mobile occupational therapy services, Puzzles also offer teletherapy, consults and corporate workshops.
Our Team
Rashid is a Senior Occupational Therapist (OT) and the Director at Puzzles Occupational Therapy.
Rashid is an experienced OT highly skilled in working with children, teenagers and adults with disability who present with complex support needs. Rashid has completed a Master’s of Occupational Therapy and Bachelor of Health Sciences.
Rashid has a passion for working with clients with diverse cultural and social backgrounds, working closely with not-for-profit organisations and private clinical practices in Sydney, Australia for over 9 years. Rashid has extensive experience working with children, teenagers and young adults with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), global developmental delays, physical disabilities and neurocognitive conditions. Rashid is passionate about clinical education and has extensive experience delivering workshops and training to clinicians, educators and families at both state and national levels.
Rashid aims to support parents, caregivers and family members develop their skills to implement therapeutic interventions to support his clients.
Rashid has been involved with numerous community projects on a state and national level that support parents and caregivers with a children with disability.
Rashid enjoys travelling, all things food, camping, boating and agriculture.
Dalia is an experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) at Puzzles Occupational Therapy.
Dalia enjoys working with children and adults with disability to help them build the skills and confidence needed to participate in everyday life. She has experience supporting individuals with vision impairment, hearing impairment, physical and intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Dalia is passionate about providing practical, family-centred therapy that is tailored to each client’s individual needs and goals. She works closely with parents, caregivers, schools and other professionals to support clients across their home, school and community environments.
Dalia believes in building strong relationships with clients and their families and enjoys helping people develop greater independence and confidence in their daily lives.
Outside of work, Dalia enjoys travelling, spending time with family and friends, exploring new cafés and keeping active.
Therapy Services
Occupational therapy aims to support individuals, to develop and maintain their ability to complete everyday meaningful activities or “occupations”.
For children, this maybe supporting the attainment of milestones and focusing on developing initial skills to complete many day-to-day tasks. These can include tasks such as dressing, using cutlery, toilet training, playing, handwriting or even getting ready for kindergarten. The tasks meaningful for a child is endless!
For teenagers and adults, this could be developing existing skills or learning new ones to support their wants and needs. An occupational therapist can support the person develop functional life skills important to them.
Every person is different and their day-to-day tasks or “occupations” will be too. The list of what an occupational therapist can do is quite long!
Puzzles Occupational Therapy offers assessment and intervention adressing any of the following:
- Occupational Therapy assessments
- Functional assessments
- Fine motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- Sensory Processing
- Self-care tasks
- Social skills
- Play Skills
- Community Access
- Assistive Technology prescription including wheelchairs, beds
- Transition to kindergarten
- Transition to high school
- Attention and engagement levels
- Sexuality understanding and participation
Consults & Workshops
At Puzzles Occupational Therapy we offer consultations to individuals and businesses wishing to seek support from an experienced occupational therapist.
We also offer custom corporate workshops and run workshops within the community throughout the year.
Please contact us for further information.
Funding Options
Therapy services can be funded through any of the following:
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Only self-managed and plan-managed funds.
- Private fees via bank transfer or eftpos.
- Private health insurance.
Free Resource Downloads
This month’s free download: 2 free visuals! A “first-then” board as well as a “first-then-last visual schedule”.
These resources are great for children, teens and adults who may need a visual prompt to support transitioning/moving on from one task to another. For more OT idea’s check out our Instagram and TikTok accounts @puzzlesOT! Enjoy.
We offer free OT resources to download as seen on our social media channels. These are designed to be free and not to be reproduced for commercial purposes.
