About
Amaze Children's Therapy Service offer fun, family focused children's therapy service in the one place. Our multidisciplinary therapy hub is located in the Western suburbs of Brisbane, where we treat children of all ages and abilities.
Starting off as Talking Tykes Speech Pathology in 2015 and re-launched in at our new Kenmore home at the start of 2022 - Amaze Children's Therapy was born out of a need to expand our existing Speech centred practice to accommodate a multidisciplinary range of complementary therapies for children, and tailored group sessions to suit our clients.
As parents ourselves, we understand the constant surprises and challenges of raising children, and balancing the demands of family life. That's why at Amaze our team of therapists work with the child and their family to ensure a holistic and consistent treatment approach that is fun to implement, flexible to family needs and affordable.
All of our team are fully vaccinated, experienced in their specialist areas of practice, insured and registered with their professional organisations.
Our clinic is located in central Kenmore with an abundance of available parking (including 5 undercover spaces), toilets and change facilities, and some excellent coffee-making neighbours.
We look forward to welcoming you and your child to the Amaze family.
Our Team
Karina Cook
Clinic Director
Senior Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
Karina has been a paediatric Speech Pathologist since graduating in 2011, and is the proud owner and Director of Amaze Children's Therapy (formerly Talking Tykes Speech Pathology). She has worked primarily in paediatric private practice during her career, but has education and disability experience also.
Karina's special clinical areas are working with speech or articulation difficulties, and early primary literacy development. She also has training in the Lidcombe and Restart DCM programs for stuttering in the early years.
As a married Mum of 3 ever-surprising kids, two more border collie babies and a usually less-demanding cat - Karina understands the joy and pressures of family life first hand. Family is at the core of Karina's approach - the reason this business was born and will forever remain a family-friendly space for both our amazing clients and team.
Specialist training:
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Sounds Write Practitioner
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PROMPT
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PECS
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Lidcombe Program
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Restart DCM
Chloe Fox
Senior Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
Chloe is a certified practicing speech pathologist with over 8 years’ experience working within the early intervention and language development space. Chloe also has experience with intervention and assessment of primary literacy development and articulation difficulties.
Chloe recently married to her long-term partner Samuel and is a proud dog mum to a senior girl named Lady. Most excitingly, she also welcomed her own precious baby girl at the end of 2023. Chloe spends most of her free time with her large extended family and brings this family friendly approach to all her work.
Chloe is very passionate about giving young children a voice or a way to be understood and can’t wait to get started working with your little ones.
At Amaze, Chloe sees a range of children from 2-12 years, including an array of speech, language and literacy difficulties. Her wealth of experience comes from the early intervention and developmental disability space, forming the majority of her caseload at Amaze.
Specialist training:
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Sounds Write Practitioner
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PECS
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Heggerty Phonological Awareness
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SOS Program
Andrea O'Brien
Senior Registered Occupational Therapist
Andrea has been a paediatric Occupational Therapist for over 40 years in schools, hospitals and in the community. She also has early childhood qualifications which tie in with her special clinical areas of school readiness, handwriting success, and supporting feeding issues such as picky eaters.
Andrea loves spending time with her family and this year, adds a fifth beautiful grandchild to her family. She has a wealth of experience across many clinical areas and brings this family centred dynamic to the Amaze multidisciplinary team.
Specialist training:
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Sensory Oral Sequential Feeding (SOS Program)
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Motor, Oral, Respiratory, Eyes (MORE) - Integrating the mouth with sensory and postural functions
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Visual Perception - Assessment and Intervention (Chapparo)
At Amaze, Andrea is available to help children with her specialist areas:
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Fine motor and handwriting development
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VIsual perception difficulties
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Attention, learning and school readiness
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Picky eating (using the SOS approach)
Erin Munn
Registered Music Therapist
Erin is a registered music therapist who has worked with many wonderful children and adolescents over the last 7 years. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Masters of Music Therapy in 2017.
Having spent most of her career working in paediatrics in a children’s hospital, Erin has a special interest in using music and play approaches to support the mental health needs of children and adolescents. Erin has also worked in private practice and in education settings previously.
Erin values working in a neurodiversity affirming and family centred way. She strives to create a safe and supportive space for all children and adolescents to explore their self identity and build upon their own strengths.
Erin has recently completed further training in Autplay Therapy, a neurodiversity affirming framework for implementing play therapy approaches with neurodivergent children and their families.
Outside of work, Erin enjoys singing in a choir, going on weekend road trips and spending time with her family and cheeky cat, Gus.
Tamara Noonan
Registered Occupational Therapist
Tamara is a registered Occupational therapist dedicated to providing holistic, evidence-based, and client and family-centred therapeutic services. She strongly believes in every child's right to engage in meaningful and fulfilling occupations. Tamara seeks to embrace the individuality of every child she works with and make the therapeutic process fun and engaging.
Currently, she is available to see children from 0-18 years of age who are experiencing difficulties in any of the following areas:
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Self-care skills including Toileting
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Fine motor skills
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Gross motor skills
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Social and play skills
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Emotional regulation and behaviour
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Sensory processing
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Handwriting
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School transitions
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Eating and food concerns
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Executive functioning
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Visual processing/ perception
Tamara studied psychology prior to occupational therapy, and has a special interest in supporting the mental health of children and their families. Outside of work, Tamara enjoys cooking, travelling and exploring museums. She has a dedication to supporting the vibrant performing arts scene in Brisbane.
Specialist Training:
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The Zones of Regulation
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Cool Kids anxiety program
Tamara is also currently completely further learning on:
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Sensory Approaches in OT Clinical Practice
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Sleep with Disability
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Talking Toileting (series 1 and 2)
Miranda Yau
Allied Health Assistant
Miranda is a fourth year Speech Pathology student at the University of Queensland, who has now completed all her clinical placements and is excitedly awaiting graduation. Miranda lives and works locally and is enjoying supporting our families and children to reach their goals through allied health assistant therapy sessions, both in the clinic and in local schools and daycare centres.
Sami Steff
Practice Manager - Administration + Office Mum
Sami is the friendly face who greets you and responds to your calls and emails on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. She is a local Mum of three beautiful children as well as a lover of bush walking, animals, travel and flowers.
You may also be lucky enough to meet her family's therapy dog, Gracie, when she visits the clinic.
Meet our friends also located at the Amaze Therapy hub!
Lighthouse Learning helps to keep children with autism on their learning journey from early childhood to primary school, and beyond.
Find out more about Alanna and her services at www.lighthouselearning.com.au
Journey Paediatric Physiotherapy
Contact us now to get connected with Sophie Wilson - a brilliant paediatric physiotherapist who is colocated with us at Kenmore. Sophie has a wealth of experience in the disability and early intervention sector.
admin@journeyphysio.com.au
