Mentoring and supervision services for passionate occupational therapists working with children and families.
Meet Carolina!
Carolina is an Occupational Therapist with over 10 years of experience working with children and their families. Originally from Argentina, she relocated to Australia in 2020. Throughout her career, she has worked across various settings, including community, home, school, hospital and clinic environments. These experiences have shaped who she is as a therapist and support her understanding of the occupational therapist role throughout different levels of care. She has also sought opportunities to learn from people she admires, and she believes she carries a little piece of each great clinician she has been fortunate to be mentored by.
She has specialised postgraduate training in childhood therapeutics and a diploma in evaluation and analysis of public policy. She is working on her Master’s thesis in Social Science and Humanities, focusing on public policy. In 2022, she embarked on her PhD at the University of Queensland, exploring Ayres Sensory Integration within the context of Occupational-Centred Practice. She believes in lifelong learning and is committed to continuous professional and personal growth.
Since starting her PhD, she transitioned from a full-time clinical role to mentoring and supervising many occupational therapists. She’s found great fulfilment in empowering occupational therapists to thrive in their professional roles, build confidence, and achieve ongoing growth. If you want to know more about her journey as an overseas-qualified OT, click here.
Tailored Mentoring and Supervision to Fit Your Unique Goals and Pace
Carolina offers a range of supervision and mentoring options to align with your individual professional goals, whether you're looking for a one-time mentoring session, ongoing clinical supervision, or small group mentoring tailored to your needs.
Supporting occupational therapists in deepening their understanding of developmental foundations and sensory processing to achieve occupational goals using a systematic process based on evidence and best practices.
Carolina’s approach to supervision is centred around your goals, challenges, and aspirations, ensuring you feel supported throughout your professional journey.
When discussing intervention and support for clients and their families, she is deeply committed to client- and occupation-centred practice—prioritising clients’ goals and drawing on occupational therapy theory and science to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges that may interfere with participation, as well as the strengths that enable ongoing engagement.
She incorporates the data-driven decision-making framework to guide intervention planning and uses a transactional model that emphasises the dynamic relationship between occupation and performance components, ensuring that interventions lead to meaningful and sustained occupational gains.
You will deepen your understanding of developmental foundations and sensory processing while learning to adopt a systematic approach to designing therapeutic interventions. Carefully developed resources will support your clinical reasoning and decision-making, further enhanced through guided supervision.
Key Areas of Interest and Focus in Supervision:
Implementing occupation-centred and client-centred practice.
Making decisions driven by data and evidence.
Supporting children’s occupational participation.
Understanding sensory processing and its role in sensory, emotional, and cognitive regulation.
Implementing Ayres Sensory Integration with an occupational focus.
Building confidence and capacity for interprofessional collaboration.
Working collaboratively with caregivers and teachers.
Enhancing child-led therapy.
Developing therapeutic processes and service structures.
Guiding overseas-trained occupational therapists through the Australian registration process.
