TAG Team

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient peadiatric care in both Australia and the UK which enables her to translate theory into real life application across diverse clinical contexts.
As the lead clinician with TAG, Rachel mostly now provides professional development opportunities and workshops to allied health professionals across Australia and TAG development projects. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, literacy and feeding difficulties, educating and empowering others, and optimising therapy outcomes. Although these interests seem diverse, the recurring theme through them all is a love for facilitating growth and development in others so they can achieve their unique potential. Rachel likes lamb roast, reading, helping others and creating systems that work. She doesn’t like people not respecting each other and children missing out because of bad care or broken systems. Rachel is described as passionate, hard working and creative.

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

Adelle
Reception/Administration Officer

Adelle holds a Diploma in Business Administration and her past experience as a Senior Medical Administration Officer and other customer service roles provides a great depth of knowledge and experience to provide great customer service and support. Adelle is one of the first faces you see as you walk through the doors at our Harth St Clinic as she provides reception and administrative support.
Adelle likes having fun with her beautiful family and amazing friends. Adelle doesn’t like wet sand everywhere after a day at the beach.
When asked to describe herself in three words, ‘powered by chocolate’ about summs it up

Alicia
Clinical Team Leader; Occupational Therapist

Alicia is a qualified Occupational Therapist who has experience working in schools, hospitals and an overseas community development setting in Vanuata which have all provided a great foundation for her career with Therapy Alliance Group. Alicia graduated from the Australian Catholic University with an honours research degree and has a special interest in working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Alicia is very passionate about being an evidence-based occupational therapist who advocates for, and works collaboratively with children and their families to equip them with the strategies they need to participate in meaningful life activities.
Alicia likes spending time with family and friends, food, binge watching TV series, exercise, dogs and travel. She doesn’t like rocket lettuce and not seeing family and friends for a long time. Her favourite colour is pink.

Emma R
Dietitian

“Emma is currently on parental leave looking after her gorgeous new bub, we look forward to Emma returning to TAG mid 2020.

Emma is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian with 7 years experience working with infants, children and adults across a range of areas including feeding difficultires, fussy easting, growth difficulties and chronic conditions. She is passionate about nutrition during pregnancy and early years, and helping children and their families discover the joys of food and eating together. Emma likes camping/outdoor adventures, strong family and friend connections, being active, and of course all things food! Emma dislikes snakes, being cold, and she has an irrational phobia of ET – one day she’ll get around to working through it! Her favourite colour is blue.”

Georgia
Speech-Language Pathologist

Georgia is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist with a passion for working with adults with a variety of communication and swallowing difficulties. After completing her studies Georgia returned to her hometown of Toowoomba to begin her professional career. Her clinical experience includes providing evidence-based and functional interventions in hospitals, the community and private practice. Georgia is an enthusiastic clinician and believes in the importance of providing education and training to family members and key support people in ensuring holistic approach to client care.
Georgia likes dancing, her succulent collcation, her pets and spending time with family and friends. She doesn’t like bananas, being cold. Her favourite colour is purple.

Hanna
Occupational Therapist

Hanna is a qualified Occupational Therapist who came to TAG as a new graduate and has just finished her first year of professional experience. Hanna is bubbly, friendly and authentic. With a brother who has Autism, Hanna has always felt drawn to working closely with children who have this diagnosis. She enjoys working with children who need help learning to calm their body down once they escalate. The greatest part for her is working on self-awareness and teaching children to tune in so they can feel in control of their body speed. Hanna loves working with families and finding out how each family is organised. Hanna believes that no therapy will be of any great benefit unless family members feel comfortable and confident to continue to work at home and this drives her to work closely with a child’s support network.
Hanna likes singing, dancing and laughing at herself (life is as fun as you make it).
Hanna doesn’t like pumpkin, dressing fancy and wearing makeup.

Leonie
Allied Health Assistant

Leonie has worked in various positions within TAG but her love and passion are as an Allied Health Assistant. She enjoys assisting in all areas of OT and Speech Pathology. Her particular clinical interests are in speech, social skills and emotional regulation. Leonie completed her Allied Health Assistant qualifications in mid 2018. He is motivated, honest and caring.
Leonie likes camping, spending time with family and friends and chocolate! Leonie doesn’t like coffee, olives and insects!

Francois Jeffery
Physiotherapist

“Francois is a Physiotherapist who has an interest in all areas of physiotherapy. Francois comes to TAG with experience in respiratory, orthopaedic, musculoskeletal and neurological physiotherapy in hospital settings.
Francois is friendly, motivated and dedicated. He likes movies, video games and exercise. He doesn’t like the beach, summer or spicy food. “

Sophia
Occupational Therapist

“Sophia is an Occupational Therapist with experience with adults in the rehabilitation unit at the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital, and with a range of clients as a former student with TAG. Sophia’s clinical intrests include workign with kids aged 4-8 with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD and global development delay, but would also love to try some new things to see what else she likes!
Sophia is warm, patient and cheery. She likes dogs, travelling, food and puzzles. She doesn’t like flying bugs, scary movies and peanut butter. “

Bridget
Occupational Therapist

Bridget is a registered Occupational Therapist who graduated from the Australian Catholic University with a Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence. Through previous employment and practicums, Bridget has abundant experience working with people of all ages. She is passionate about providing early intervention and evidence based practice, through working collaboratively with children and their families to enable them to live their lives to the fullest.
Bridget likes being outdoors, travelling and cooking. She doesn’t like spiders.

Anna R
Dietitian

“Anna is an accredited practising Dietitian who started practising in 2017. Her special interest areas are early life nutritrion, mental health and eating disorders. Emma is also a Breastfeeding Counsellor, Co-coordinator of the Toowoomba Mental Health Professionals Network and is on the Leadership Committee for Health At Every Size Australia.
Anna is empathetic, punctilious and expressive. She likes chocolate, conversations with her children and awkward humour. She doesn’t like dried parmesan cheese, heights and feeling unorganised.”

Emma W
Occupational Therapist

“Ella is an Occupational Therapist who graduated recently from Australian Catholic University. Emma has placement experience at various hospitals in paediatric clinic, burns and scar management clinic and with private practice. Emma is still developing her clinical specialty areas but does enjoy working with paediatrics.
Emma is persistent, adaptable and positive. She likes anything sweet and being outdoors. She doesn’t like frogs. “

Kimberlee
Clinical Team Leader; Speech-Language Pathologist

Kimberlee is one of our Clinical Team Leaders and a Senior certified practiciting Speech Pathologist. She comes to TAG with many years of experience across the lifespan and across presentations, in hospital and community settings. Her particular interests are in paed and adult feeding and swalling, disability, early intervention and parent training. Kimberlee is practical, thorough and warm. She likes a good coffee, a good book, solving a problem and seeing results. She doesn’t like apricots.

Yu Lam
Occupational Therapist

Yu Lam is an Occupational Therapist who graduated last year from the University of Queensland with Honours. Yu Lam has a particular interest in adult rehabilitation and paediatric with experience in Geriatric Adult Rehabilitation Stroke and Acute Mental Health.
Yu Lam is bright, easy-going and diligent. She likes going outdoors, food and bubble tea. She doesn’t like clutter.

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient peadiatric care in both Australia and the UK which enables her to translate theory into real life application across diverse clinical contexts.
As the lead clinician with TAG, Rachel mostly now provides professional development opportunities and workshops to allied health professionals across Australia and TAG development projects. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, literacy and feeding difficulties, educating and empowering others, and optimising therapy outcomes. Although these interests seem diverse, the recurring theme through them all is a love for facilitating growth and development in others so they can achieve their unique potential. Rachel likes lamb roast, reading, helping others and creating systems that work. She doesn’t like people not respecting each other and children missing out because of bad care or broken systems. Rachel is described as passionate, hard working and creative.

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

Carly
NDIS Officer

Carly recently returned to the workforce to join the Administration team after being a stay-at-mum to two beautiful girls for the last six years. Carly takes care of all of our NDIA Claiming and provides general administration support. Having a daughter who has medical needs gives Carly an understanding of how important services like TAG are to families. She likes spending time with her family and friends, good food and going to the beach. She doesn’t like spiders or the cold.

Karla
Administration Team Leader

“Karla is the Administration Team Leader for all front of house services at TAG. Karla manages a team that provide reception and administration support across our TAG clinical sites. Karla also manages the intake process across the team. Karla is the mother of three very active teenage boys who always keep her on her toes. When not at work, Karla loves to cook and bake up a storm.
Karla likes spending time at the beach with family and cooking for them, and spending time with friends. She doesn’t like snakes, mosquitoes and brussell sprouts. Her favourite colour is green.”

Mynn
Clinician Team Leader; Speech-Language Pathologist

Mynn is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist with experience working with children and adults with disabilities, supporting them with their speech, language and swallowing/feeding needs. She has clinical experience in a range of seetings including education, community health, and hospitals. Mynn is most passionate working with children in the 0-5 year age group and has an interest in paediatric feeding and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC). Mynn is always looking for new and creative ways to make therapy as fun and engaging as possible, and aims to go above and beyond to make a positive difference in her clients’ lives. Mynn likes food, singing when no one is listening, spending time with family and friends. Mynn dislikes the cold, swooping birds, pickes. Her favourite colour is blue.

Dineesha
Speech-Language Pathologist

“Dineesha is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who is passionate about helping anyone and everyone achieve their goals, whether it be communication or eacting and drinking safely. She has a particular interest in literacy and voice.
Dineesha is enthusiastic, caring and playful. She likes dancing, soccer and NETFLIX! She doesn’t like cooking & broccoli. “

Emily H
Speech-Language Pathologist

“Emily is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who has worked in rural areas since graduating in 2011. Her experience has been diverse – from feeding skills with newborn infants in hospital, to speech, social skills, language, and literacy in children and communication and swallowing with adults in aged care. As a Speech Pathologist, Emily likes that she is always learning new things.
Emily is colourful, caring and creative. She likes travel, sewing, swimming, getting outdoors and dogs! She doesn’t like traffic, doing the washing up, uncomfortable shoes. “

Rose
Administration Officer

Rose is an experienced administration all rounder who is able to assist with everything from general enquiries to complicated NDIS or scheduling issues. She’s dedicated to helping the team out however she can so that we can all reach the outcomes we strive to achieve. Rose is a mum of two little boys aged 4 and 1 who like to keep her busy.
Rose likes picnics in the sunshine and crime documentaries. She doesn’t like string beans. Rose loves the colour red!

Kerrie
Scheduling Officer

Kerrie is our Scheduling Officer. She has many years of coordinating schedules in different environments including retail rostering, managing a young family with 2 small girls and a busy high end hair salon. Kerrie is especially skilled at time management which can be frustrating for some but she loves juggling lots of different things and making them all work together.
Kerrie is colourful, busy and kind. She likes coffee, live music and binge watching Gilmore Girls on a rainy day. She doesn’t like seafood, blue cheese and mean people.

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient peadiatric care in both Australia and the UK which enables her to translate theory into real life application across diverse clinical contexts.
As the lead clinician with TAG, Rachel mostly now provides professional development opportunities and workshops to allied health professionals across Australia and TAG development projects. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, literacy and feeding difficulties, educating and empowering others, and optimising therapy outcomes. Although these interests seem diverse, the recurring theme through them all is a love for facilitating growth and development in others so they can achieve their unique potential. Rachel likes lamb roast, reading, helping others and creating systems that work. She doesn’t like people not respecting each other and children missing out because of bad care or broken systems. Rachel is described as passionate, hard working and creative.

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

Rob
Clinical Team Leader/ Occupational Therapist

Rob is one of our Clinical Team Leaders and an experienced Occupational Therapist who has worked extensively with adults and children in South East Queensland and in the UK. Rob studied at the University of Queensland and began his career with Disability Services working with adults and children in the community. A move into private practice brought with it a focus on community based paediatric work as amobile therapist. Rob has recently returned from the UK where he gained valuable experience working in an adult acute hospital setting, as well as providing a mobile, private practice service for children and adults in the communities of north-east Scotland.
Rob loves being able to support people to discover their inherent strengths and develop their individual potential. He brings a sense of humour, compassion, and an eagerness to work alongside adults and children as they grow and develop their participation and engagement in all aspects of their daily life.
Rob likes being outdoors, singing in choirs, spending time with family, listening to music, and good coffee! Rob dislikes sitting in traffic jams.

Priya
Speech-Language Pathologist

Priya is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist with experience working in the early intervention and acute hospital settings in Singapore. After completing her Masters degree in Flinders University, Adelaide, she worked extensively with young children and children with multiple disabilities, providing assessments and therapy for speech, language and literacy issues. An advocate for inclusiveness, she strives to build a strong and positive relationship with her clients and all the important stakeholders in the client’s life. The multiculral environment in Singapore has trained her to work with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children and families. She has special interest in language and literacy skills and loves to use children’s books in every session if possible. Priya is also the project officer for TeleTAG, a telerehabilitation service offered by TAG.
Priya likes reading (she is a huge Potterhead!), books, singing and cooking. Priya doesn’t like spiders, insects, badly made coffee.

Paige
Speech-Language Pathologist

“Paige is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist who graduated with a Masters of Speech Pathology from Griffith University. Paige has experience across all ranges of practice areas however has a particular interest in early language development, paediatric feeding and paediatric motor speech disorders.
Paige is positive, thoughtful and smiles a lot!! She likes sushi, popcorn, indoor rock climing and the beach! She doesn’t like donuts and needles (eek). “

Janelle
Reception/Administration Officer

“Janelle has 11 years experience in an administration, sales and managerial position with a fencing, wire and steel company. She spent 4 years working in Darwin running one of their branches for them. Prior to this Janelle was a stay at home Mum, raising 4 children and working part time on her family farm picking strawberries.
Janelle has previous experience working for 7 years with Franklins Supermarkets where she was the head cashier responsible for balancing registers, performing security lifts and doing the wages and maintaining HR files.
Janelle is fun, relaxed and open-minded. She loves to walk, read books and watch movies. She doesn’t like racism, gender inequality and people without empathy. “

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient peadiatric care in both Australia and the UK which enables her to translate theory into real life application across diverse clinical contexts.
As the lead clinician with TAG, Rachel mostly now provides professional development opportunities and workshops to allied health professionals across Australia and TAG development projects. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, literacy and feeding difficulties, educating and empowering others, and optimising therapy outcomes. Although these interests seem diverse, the recurring theme through them all is a love for facilitating growth and development in others so they can achieve their unique potential. Rachel likes lamb roast, reading, helping others and creating systems that work. She doesn’t like people not respecting each other and children missing out because of bad care or broken systems. Rachel is described as passionate, hard working and creative.

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

Tamika
Occupational Therapist

“Tamika is an Occupational Therapist with the last 3 years experience working mostly with older adults. Her involvement through her work and university placements has provided her with a vast array of experiences across different areas and helped her to develop an appreciation of the human experience as we age and the importance of a holistic approach across all stages of life.
Tamika is imaginative, optimistic and empathetic. She likes fashion from the 1930’s-1950’s, all things crafty and my retro video games collection. She doesn’t like creepy crawlies and not having salt and vinegar chips in the pantry.”

Lilla
Speech-Language Pathologist

Lilla is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) in her second year of experience. Lilla additionally holds a Master of Audiology Studies and is a current PhD student. She has a particular interest in Hearing impairment, alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).
Lilla is bubbly, talkative and musical. She likes earrings, singing and coffee. She doesn’t like slow internet, people that are inconsiderate of others and creepy crawlies.

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient peadiatric care in both Australia and the UK which enables her to translate theory into real life application across diverse clinical contexts.
As the lead clinician with TAG, Rachel mostly now provides professional development opportunities and workshops to allied health professionals across Australia and TAG development projects. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, literacy and feeding difficulties, educating and empowering others, and optimising therapy outcomes. Although these interests seem diverse, the recurring theme through them all is a love for facilitating growth and development in others so they can achieve their unique potential. Rachel likes lamb roast, reading, helping others and creating systems that work. She doesn’t like people not respecting each other and children missing out because of bad care or broken systems. Rachel is described as passionate, hard working and creative.

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

Emily
Speech-Language Pathologist

Emily (or Em for short) is a new graduate Speech Pathologist from the Gold Coast. While this is her first setting in the wondeful career of speech pathology, Emily has had experience working with individuals all across the lifespan, particularly children with speech language difficulties. Emily found a love for working in rural and remote communities while completing her final placement in Mount Isa and considers herself a country kid at heart. Emily has a passion for helping all individuals reach their potential and letting that shine. Emily is new to Chinchilla and loves being part of the community.
Emily likes puppies, beach/snorkelling (or the Chinchilla Wier) and sport. She doesn’t like feet, lizards including geckos.

Judi
Reception/Administration Officer

Jude has 23 years experience in administration and 13 years as a Special Needs Teacher Aide. Her combined wealth of experience brings a perfect understanding and balance to the types of needs and administrative support that is needed at TAG. Jude describes herself as genuine and a Posh Bogan. Jude likes her family, music festivals and concerts. She doesn’t like bullying and discrimination.