Occupational Therapist highly experienced in Child & Adolescent Mental Health.
PD programs for education professionals avail
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Thanks to Mt Evelyn Community House & Reading Room Built Like Me are providing a free workshop.
Practical and hands on participants will gain knew knowledge and practical advice on how to support children and young people manage past, present and future extreme weather events.
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Pull out the coat, fill your keep cup and join me for a relaxed and practical workshop.
About Us
What Do We Do
Built Like Me provides Occupational Therapy which focus on positive mental health while working with children and young people who have difficulty managing their emotions, sensory preferences or both. We work alongside the child, family, school and other health professionals to ensure a wholistic team approach. We empower young people and their families to understand how they are built and develop personalised strategies and plans to manage and overcome the challenges they are facing. We are experienced in using Occupational Therapy to support young people experiencing a variety of challenges. Those we work with may be struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, autism spectrum disorder or stressful life events. You do not need to have a diagnosis to benefit from our service.
We also provide professional development to health and education professionals.
Who Are We
Carmen from Built Like Me is a Registered Occupational Therapists with mental health endorsement from OT Australia. She has extensive experience in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, emotional regulation and Sensory Strategies. She is passionate about empowering young people to develop the skills they need to manage the demands of the modern world. We see children and adolescents for the amazing people they are, their individual strengths and what they all have to offer the world.
Carmen believes a key element is working with children is providing their parents with support and education to ensure they are equipped to help their child outside the therapy room.
Professional Development
Helping individual Children and their families is wonderfully rewarding. Working with fellow professionals to help them build their tool kit to help more children, each and every day fills me with true joy.
Carmen works with early childhood educators, primary and secondary school teachers and fellow health professionals to build on their own knowledge, skills and experience to help them identify practical strategies that they can implement in their work. All while acknowledging the skills and dedication they already have, as well as the challenges, limitation and reality of their day to day work.
Not only does Carmen maintain a clinical practice ensuring she is up to date with that is happening on the ground, she has years of experience in public mental health and private practice supporting teaching professionals overcome a huge variety of classroom challenges.
Our People
Carmen: Owner and OT
Carmen is an Occupational Therapist and owner of Built Like Me. After completing a degree in Occupational Therapy in 2008 she went on to complete post graduate studies in Community Mental Health. Carmen spent over 10 years working in Public Mental Health Services. Primarily working within Child & Adolescent Mental Health before moving to private practice in 2019. Carmen loves using play, sensory modalities, interoception, and accessing the local community to assist young people with a variety of concerns. Carmen believes it is important to understand the whole person and focus on an individuals strengths and interests.
When not working Carmen loves spending time with friends and family, eating out and planning her next holiday.