Kristy believes that the pathway to a fulfilling future begins in childhood with a positive educational experience, which all children deserve. This includes building strong foundations to learning, developing friendships, and having fun!

Kristy is actively engaged with Southern Cross University where she supervises occupational therapy students and contributes to the Occupational Therapy program. She is also a member of OT Australia and an associate member of Indigenous Allied Health Australia.

Being married with 3 young girls, like many parents Kristy’s spare time is spent doing homework, cleaning, and making school lunches. However, when she’s not working, she is a proud Manly Sea Eagles supporter (don’t hold it against her), and enjoys going home to the country to spend time with extended family. Kristy feels privileged to be welcomed into the lives of the families she works with, and feels truly blessed to have a career that she loves!

Sarah has worked in a range of areas, however helping children and their families has always been a particular area of interest. She is passionate about supporting families and schools by tailoring therapy to suit each unique child and their specific challenges. Sarah ensures that therapy is fun and meaningful which assists a child to reach their full potential.

She believes that empowering children can have a tremendous impact on a child’s performance, both in the home and school environment and can have a lasting effect as they move through life.

She is also particularly inspired by the many positive benefits that yoga and mindfulness can have on children and is a qualified children’s yoga instructor.

Sarah loves living by the ocean and enjoys stand up paddle boarding, yoga and camping with her husband and young daughter.

Emma has had a special interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for many years. This interest continued throughout her studies and as a result she formed her honours thesis research on the ‘Professional development needs of early childhood educators to provide an inclusive classroom for children with ASD.  From this research, she developed a free online resource for early childhood educators with information about ASD and strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support inclusive education.

Emma is passionate about early intervention, neuroplasticity, inclusive education, positive behaviour support and social skill development. She enjoys working collaboratively with families, educators and other health providers to achieve optimal outcomes for children, families and schools.

Emma loves spending time with her partner, family, friends and two silky terriers, spoiling her three nieces, keeping active, playing netball and swimming in the ocean.

She has extensive administrative experience and is passionate about supporting the Empowered Kids team to provide the very best services to our clients. In addition to her administrative support to families and therapists, Sara has a keen interest in developing resources to support children in their play, engagement and their emotional intelligence.

When not supporting the Empowered Kids team, Sara is a pop culture enthusiast with a fondness for movies and superheroes. She loves early morning walks around the beautiful beaches of the southern Gold Coast, and being a little bit silly with her partner and ten amazing nieces and nephews.