Specialist exercise physiology, designed around your child.
Every enquiry starts with a conversation. Emma wants to understand your child’s needs, your goals, and your funding arrangement before she makes any recommendations. This helps both of you decide whether Movement Milestones EP is the right match, and saves time for everyone.
01 MOBILE PAEDIATRIC EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY
Tailored exercise-based interventions delivered at home, school, or in the community.
Mobile EP means Emma comes to your child. Sessions take place at your home, in your backyard, at school, or in a community space, wherever your child is most comfortable and most likely to engage.
Land-based sessions focus on:
- Gross motor skill development
- Strength and balance training
- Coordination and proprioception
- Participation goals: bike riding, ball skills, recreational activities
- Building physical endurance and independence in everyday movement
Emma builds every session around those goals. That means active participation, real-world practice, and therapy that your child actually wants to show up for.
02 AQUATIC EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY & HYDROTHERAPY
Experienced aquatic exercise physiology and hydrotherapy for children and adults.
Aquatic therapy offers a uniquely supportive environment for children with complex needs. The water provides natural resistance, sensory feedback, and a freedom of movement that many children find calming and motivating. For kids who struggle with standard land-based sessions, the pool can be the place where everything changes.
Emma delivers aquatic exercise physiology sessions at pool facilities across Brisbane. This is not learn-to-swim. These are individually designed, goal-directed sessions that use the aquatic environment to build:
- Gross motor skill development
- Balance and proprioception
- Coordination and proprioception
- Breath control and water safety awareness
- Physical endurance and functional movement
We also offer our accessible group program, Aqua Adventurers. Join the waitlist now if you would like to lock in a place for the next term.
03 HOLIDAY PROGRAMS
Yes, we offer holiday programs!
Holiday programs offer an opportunity for sport-specific and goal-focused therapy over the school break. They can be particularly helpful to prepare your child for a specific skill they may need to build on to increase participation in PE or sport within the following school term.
Bike riding
- Learning to ride a bike requires repetitive practice because the skill relies on developing coordination, balance, timing, endurance, and quick reaction skills, especially when steering and braking.
- A learn-to-ride program may be appropriate if your child lacks confidence or finds bike riding challenging without training wheels, or has reduced balance, coordination, postural control, or lower limb endurance and strength.
- By increasing the frequency of sessions as a holiday intensive, confidence and independence can be built through exercise physiologist-led sessions.
- Sessions are conducted within a park near you with available flat pathway space.
- Sessions focus on building safety skills within the environment, learning to walk and hold the bike independently, learning to react to verbal cues to use the hand brake, mounting and scooting correctly to develop balance and handlebar control, braking while riding, pedalling in a straight line, weaving and turning, and riding on grass and pathways.
- The purpose of bike riding sessions is to work with your child and build their independence with bike riding depending on where they are at with their confidence and physical capabilities.
Sport specific holiday sessions
- Exercise physiologist-led sport-specific sessions allow children to work towards building participation in a specific physical activity, sport, or PE lessons.
- These sessions aim to make kids feel more confident participating in sport or ball activities with their family and friends.
- These sessions can also be helpful if your child is lacking confidence to try new ball skills and may benefit from appropriate progressions or modifications guided by an exercise physiologist.
- Sessions may also target a specific aquatic skill your child is working on within a mainstream swim lesson, breaking down the skill or building physical endurance. Modifications and recommendations can then be shared with your child's swim school to further support participation within their programs.
- Sessions can be completed within your home backyard, a local park, or at a pool near you.
04 Reporting & Other Services
Supporting your child’s therapy to ensure effective collaboration and goal-directed sessions.
Good therapy does not happen in a silo. Emma works collaboratively with your child’s wider support team—including speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and school staff—to make sure everyone is working toward the same goals.
Reporting Services Include:
- NDIS progress reports
- Goal-setting and review meetings
- Collaboration with other treating therapists and multidisciplinary teams
- School visit and community-based assessment support