Meet The Team

Rebecca Williams

Beck is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist with experience working across a range of educational settings and private practice. Beck is passionate about supporting the child and their family to achieve meaningful goals while celebrating the child’s own individual strengths and interests.

Beck’s interest and expertise is with:

• Language Assessment and Support
• Speech Sound Assessment and Support
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Phonological Awareness and Literacy Support
• Autism
• Executive Functioning
• Engagement and Interaction 
• Hanen - More Than Words
• Parent Support Groups
• Mealtime Support

Alex Lever

Alex is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist who has experience in community health, private practice, and school settings. Alex’s journey in Speech Pathology has been driven by a deep passion to empower families and aid children to achieve their unique goals. With a keen focus on fostering growth and development, Alex’s approach demonstrates personalised care and evidence-based practices.

Alex’s interests and experience includes:

• Speech and Language Assessments  
• Articulation & Phonological Delays/Disorders 
• Language Disorders (Phonological Awareness and Literacy Support)
• Childhood Stuttering (Lidcombe Program)
• Developmental Delays, Autism, ADHD and Intellectual Disabilities  
• Group Therapy Programs
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech
• Pragmatic Language
• Swallowing and Feeding Disorders

Meagan Bothe

Meagan is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist who has experience working in Early Childhood Intervention Services, private practice, non-for-profit organisations, and education settings.  Meagan is passionate about building positive relationships with children and their families, empowering them to achieve their goals.

Meagan’s interests and areas of speciality include:

• Speech and Language Assessments
• Articulation and Phonological Delays/Disorders
• Childhood Apraxia of Speech
• Phonological Awareness and Literacy
• Engagement and Interaction
• Hanen – It Takes Two to Talk, and More than Words
• Group therapy programs

Courtney Shears

Courtney is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist located in Gippsland. Courtney is passionate about working with primary school aged children to support their unique goals in speech, language and literacy development. Courtney has experience working in regional and remote Victoria, across private practice and primary school settings. 

Courtney’s areas of interest and expertise include:

• Autism
• ADHD
• Dyslexia and learning difficulties 
• Intellectual disability 
• Developmental language disorder 
• Speech and language assessment 
• Pragmatic language
• Lego based therapy  

Kelsey Ridsdale

Kelsey is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist who has experience working with clients of all ages within community and school settings. Kelsey is passionate about early intervention and supporting families with a functional and holistic approach to achieving individual goals.

Kelsey’s interests and experience includes:

• Speech and Language Assessments
• Developmental Delays, Autism, ADHD and Intellectual Disabilities
• Pragmatic Language
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Articulation and Phonological Delays/Disorders
• Language Disorders 
• Phonological Awareness and Literacy Support
• Swallowing and Feeding Disorders
• Hanen Program

Fern Gan

Fern is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist who has experience working in Early Childhood Intervention, private and not-for-profit organizations. Fern believes that every child deserves the opportunity to reach their fullest potential and to lead lives full of happiness. Fern is passionate to support the child, their family and support networks to achieve their unique goals that are meaningful to them.
Fern’s areas of interest and speciality include:

• Support the implementation of AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) systems –electronic/high tech and non-electronic.
• Complex communication needs (CCN) due to genetic disorder and/or physical disability/differences.
• Developmental delay
• Early communication
• Hanen – It Takes Two to Talk
• Swallowing and Feeding disorder, mealtime support
• Autism
• ADHD
• Intellectual Disability
• Parent – child and family relationships
• Language assessment and support
• Sounds-write trained (literacy)

Fleur Martin

Fleur is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist who has experience working in literacy intervention in primary school settings. Fleur believes in utilising each child’s strengths and interests when supporting them to become successful and confident communicators.

Fleur’s areas of interest and experience include:

• Speech and Language Assessments
• Articulation and Phonological Delays/Disorders
• Language Delays and Disorders
• Phonological Awareness and Literacy Support
• Specific Learning Difficulties, including Dyslexia
• Group Therapies

Sam Tanner

Sam is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist with experience in public health and private practice. Originally from Canada, Sam has worked as a Speech Pathologist in both Canada and Australia, bringing a unique blend of experiences to her therapy practice.

Passionate about early intervention, Sam prioritises building strong, meaningful relationships with children and their families. By fostering trust and collaboration, Sam empowers children and their families to feel confident on their communication journey in achieving their individualised goals.

Sam’s areas of interest and expertise include:

• Speech and Language Assessments
• Articulation and Phonological Delays/Disorders
• Engagement and Interaction 
• Language development in autistic children
• Parent training in early language strategies
• Fluency, including the use of the Lidcombe Program
• Multimodal Communication, including Key Word Sign and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices
• Pragmatic Language Skills

Zoe McKeegan

Zoe is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist who has experience working in private practice, kindergartens and primary school settings. Zoe is passionate about creating fun, individualised therapy sessions that foster meaningful communication and confidence in her clients.

Zoe interests and experience includes:

• Speech and Language Assessments  
• Articulation & Phonological Disorders
• Developmental Language Disorder 
• Early Communication
• Developmental Delays, Autism and Intellectual Disabilities  
• Pragmatic Language 

Taylah Wright

Taylah is an APHRA registered Paediatric Occupational Therapist who has experience working in Early Childhood Intervention Services, kindergartens, childcare, primary schools, community, and home environments. Taylah is passionate and dedicated to working with children in their natural environments to achieve their wants and needs with a family/carer focused partnership. 

Taylah's areas of speciality and interest include:

• Parent-child and family relationships
• Early Intervention
• Toileting, sleep and mealtime difficulties
• Self-care goals
• Fine and Gross Motor skills
• Handwriting support and intervention
• Play skills
• Group therapy programs

Rachel Hodder

Rachel is an AHPRA registered Paediatric Occupational Therapist who enjoys working with children and youth. She has a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Distinction) and is currently studying for her Graduate Certificate in Child and Youth Mental Health. She strives to provide accessible and non-judgemental therapeutic support. 

Rachel has undertaken professional development in trauma-informed practice, sensory and emotional regulation, and Neurodiverse Affirming Practice. Rachel has completed her Yoga Teacher Training and is able to support her clients to use movement and breath work, as well as inviting play and creativity into her sessions to support their wellbeing. 

Rachel’s areas of interest include:

• Emotional and Sensory Regulation
• Fine and gross motor skills
• Self care skills 
• Play 
• Autism
• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Developmental Delays
• Intellectual Disabilities.

Miranda Spence

Miranda is a registered Paediatric Occupational Therapist with AHPRA who has experience working in Early Childhood Intervention Services, private practice, kindergartens and school settings. Miranda is passionate about family centred practice – to meet the family where they are at to support children in reaching their goals. 

Miranda’s areas of speciality and interest include: 

• Complex physical disability
• Developmental delays 
• Play 
• Sensory integration/processing
• Intellectual Disability 
• Parent-child and family relationships
• Motor skill difficulties 
• Autism 
• ADHD
• Anxiety 
• Behaviour and emotional regulation difficulties
• Genetic disorders (e.g. Down Syndrome) 

Ronan Pritchard

Ronan is an Occupational Therapist and is registered with AHPRA. He has experience working as an OT in the mental health and psychosocial space. Ronan has also worked as a personal trainer and tennis coach. 

Ronan has a keen interest in working with families in the community and enjoys building relationships with others to assist them in achieving their goals. He is passionate about looking to improve the health and well-being of his clients in any area of their life that is important and meaningful to them. 

Ronan’s areas of practice include: 

• Motor skills (Fine and gross motor skills)
• Self care skills
• Emotional regulation 
• Sensory processing challenges 
• Play skills

Melody Wooding

Melody is an APHRA registered paediatric Occupational Therapist who has experience working with children and youth in kindergartens, childcare, primary schools and community health. 

Melody is passionate and dedicated to working with children and their families in their natural environments to achieve their goals that is important and meaningful to them. Melody has a keen interest in sensory integration, play skills and processing and developing daily routines.

Melody’s areas of practice include: 

●  Sensory integration/processing

●  Transitioning periods

●  Developing routines

●  Developmental delays 

●  Play skills

●  Motor skills (Fine and gross motor skills)

●  Self care skills

●  Emotional regulation 

●  Autism 

●  ADHD

●  Anxiety 

Tilda Dodson

Tilda is an AHPRA registered occupational therapist. She has experience working with children across childcare, kinder, school and home environments and is passionate about working collaboratively with parents, caregivers and families to support the achievement of their goals. She has a bachelor of Occupational therapy and is an SOS trained feeding therapist.

Tilda’s areas of interest are:

•  Early intervention
• Play skills
• Self care skills including feeding and toileting
• Sensory processing
• Fine and gross motor skills
• Challenging behaviours
• Developing routines

Lisa Green

  Lisa is an AHPRA registered Occupational Therapist. She has experience working with children in private practice, school, childcare, kindergarten and home environments.   

Lisa’s areas of speciality and interest include:  

• Developmental delay  

• Sensory processing and regulation   • Physical disability (including equipment prescription)  

• Play skills  

• Feeding therapy (including picky eating, oral aversion and oral motor delays)  

• Fine and gross motor skills  

• Self-care skills