TAG Team

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with both inpatient and outpatient paediatric care across different service contexts in both Australia and the UK.

Rachel also provides business consulting and professional development training for other allied health professionals throughout Australia. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, paediatric feeding, literacy, parent training and educating and empowering others to optimise 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 own unique potential.

Rachel is passionate, creative and energetic.   She likes helping people be their best self, reading and hanging out with her family.  She doesn’t like people missing out or suffering because of bad care, broken systems or ineffective use of available resources.

Bailee
Occupational Therapist

Bailee is a new graduate Occupational Therapist from Griffith University.  She has placement experience with sub-acute, paediatric and mental health practice settings.  Bailee has clinical interests across her generalist role but does enjoy paediatrics, rehab and home modifications/assistive technology.

Bailee is passionate, optimistic and playful.  She likes asian cuisine, travelling and spending time with family and friends.  She doesn’t like winter, mayo and insects.

Caiti
Speech-Language Pathologist

Caiti is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who is a new graduate with honours from the University of Queensland.  Caiti enjoys working across all areas of practice but is particularly passionate about paediatric literacy, phonological awareness and speech sound delays/ disorders.

Caiti is friendly, kind and loves a chat.  She loves her dog, singing and hummus!  She doesn’t like celery, spiders or snakes (eek!)

Helen

Speech-Language Pathologist

Helen is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience working in schools in both Australia and the UK. Her passion is getting great outcomes for children with language difficulties (both understanding and speaking). Helen is extremely persistent – seriously, she trained her cat to use the toilet!

We suspect Helen loves to work with children because she never actually grew up and that’s probably why the kids love her too. She’s obsessed with kids picture books and rarely does a session without using at least one. Helen is funny and caring. Helen likes animals and spending time in her garden. She doesn’t like paperwork and taking life too seriously. 

Georgia
Clinical Team Leader/ Speech-Language Pathologist

Georgia is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist with a passion for working across the continuum of care, with both children and adults. She aims to support individuals to enhance their participation in important life activities and to improve quality of life through meaningful and practical progress towards their speech pathology goals.  

Staying up to date with current research and evidence-based practice is fundamental to Georgia’s work as a clinician.  Aiming to maximise communicative and swallow safety outcomes, Georgia employs evidence-based therapies in an engaging and client relevant manner. Different families have specific and individual needs; therefore, Georgia works collaboratively with families and support networks to implement strategies that will work for each client in all communication and mealtime settings.

When she’s not in the clinic, Georgia can be found doting over her two dogs, tending her vegetable garden and spending time with family and friends.

Emma
Occupational Therapist

Emma 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.

Lexi
Occupational Therapist

Lexi is a new graduate Occupational Therapist with placement experience in adult acute medical stroke ward, private practice and mental health.  She has a clinical interest in working with people of all ages but particularly enjoys working in paediatrics.

Lexi is friendly, giving and fun.  She likes playing sports, drinking good coffee and spending time with her friends and family.  She doesn’t like bugs or eggs.

Francois
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 interests include working 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
Clinical Team Leader/ Occupational Therapist

Bridget is a registered Occupational Therapist who graduated from the Australian Catholic University.  Bridget thoroughly enjoys working with people of all ages, as they need such unique support to engage in their desired occupations.  Home modifications, equipment prescription, early intervention and capacity building are areas of interest for Bridget.  In 2021 Bridget has taken on the role of a Clinical Team Leader and is excited to be developing our TAG services further with our team and community.

Bridget is funny, passionate and caring.  She likes cooking, travelling and gardening.  Spiders are an absolute dislike!

Lauren
Occupational Therapist

Lauren is an Occupational Therapist who has placement experience in private practice, acute settings and outpatient rehab clinics.  Lauren is enjoying the generalist nature of her role but has special interest in disability and mental health at the moment.

Laurent is creative, calm and friendly.  She likes plants, chocolate, her animals and spending time with family and friends.  She doesn’t like toads, seafood and summer.

Nikita
Speech-Language Pathologist

Nikita is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with placement experience across paediatric telehealth, as well as adult rehabilitation, outpatient services and acute services in metropolitan hospitals.  Her Clinical Interest areas are in adult language, speech and swallowing, as well as paediatric speech and language. 

Nikita is fun, calm and friendly! She likes READING!, chocolate, and board games.  She doesn’t like Brussel sprouts, snakes…did she mention snakes?

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with both inpatient and outpatient paediatric care across different service contexts in both Australia and the UK.

Rachel also provides business consulting and professional development training for other allied health professionals throughout Australia. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, paediatric feeding, literacy, parent training and educating and empowering others to optimise 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 own unique potential.

Rachel is passionate, creative and energetic.   She likes helping people be their best self, reading and hanging out with her family.  She doesn’t like people missing out or suffering because of bad care, broken systems or ineffective use of available resources.

Dineesha
Speech-Language Pathologist

Dineesha is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who is dedicated to lifting others up and achieving their goals.  She has experience in and a general passion in working with both children and adults with a variety of speech, language, swallowing/feeding, voice and literacy difficulties.  Dineesha has experience in the private practice and hospital settings.  Dineesha is also trained in the Sounds-Write literacy programme.  She loves learning new things to go above and beyond for her clients to make sure they are able to participate in their daily lives to the best of their ability.  As she is fun-sized, Dineesha tends to have a fun-loving approach to therapy as well.

Dineesha is fun-sized, organised and enthusiastic!  She likes reading, soccer and dancing.  She doesn’t like cooking, insects and a messy room.

Emily
Speech-Language Pathologist

Emily is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP).  Emily has placement experience in public paediatric health clinics, adult rehab and private practice.  Her clinical interest areas are speech, swallowing, voice and fluency across paediatric and adult populations.

Emily is resilient, hardworking and fun! She likes music/singing (big musical theatre nerd!), cooking and curling up under a blanket with a cup of tea to watch Netflix.  She doesn’t like anything creepy-crawly and coffee (unless it has chocolate in it).

Mynn
Speech-Language Pathologist

Mynn is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who has experience working with children and adults across a range of clinical settings including private practice, education, community health, and hospitals.  Mynn is most passionate about working with children in the 0-7 year age group and has an interest in early language, speech and paediatric feeding.  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 different in her clients’ lives.  

Mynn likes food, holidays, and spending time with family and friends.  Mynn dislikes the cold, swooping birds, and pickles. 

Linley
Speech-Language Pathologist

Linley is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with experience at the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital providing Speech Pathology care to patients who have experienced stroke.  She has further experience working collaboratively with Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to provide holistic care in the areas of communication, feeding and early development.  

Linley has a broad range of clinical interests areas and she is passionate about working with clients and their families to identify and work towards personally relevant and meaningful goals.

Linley is curious, creative and compassionate.  She has a passion for football, reading and the colour green.  She doesn’t like scary movies. 

Robbie
Speech-Language Pathologist

Robbie is a Speech Language Pathologist who graduated with Honours from the University of Queensland. Robbie has placement experience in paediatric early education, school, health clinic and tele-rehabilitation settings, as well as in adult acute and geriatric settings. She loves meeting, working with, and supporting people across all areas of speech pathology practice.  Her work as a Therapy Assistant sparked a passion for celebrating the ‘little wins’ as ‘big wins’ on the journey of supporting clients and their families to reach their unique potential.

Robbie is bubbly, compassionate and loves her job – and has fun doing it!  She enjoys spending time with her friends and family, playing the Ukulele and binge watching TV shows. She doesn’t like geckos, bad coffee or being stuck in traffic.

Andie
Scheduling Officer

Andie is one of our Scheduling Officers who will assist you with your regular therapy appointments and coordinating between yours and our clinical appointments.  Andie came to us through a career shift, she graduated from college with an Associate of Applied Science in Food Service and Hospitality and she has 18 years of experience in hospitality, customer service and as a Chef.

Andie is hilarious, honest and caring.  She enjoys doing Tie Dye as a hobby, spending time with friends and family, singing karaoke, going to the beach and exploring new places.  She doesn’t like moths and bugs that unexpectedly attack you, dishonest people, and swimming in open waters where she can’t touch, or see the bottom.

Carly
Executive Assistant/ Resource 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 is warm, caring and very kind. 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 Brussel sprouts.

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with both inpatient and outpatient paediatric care across different service contexts in both Australia and the UK.

Rachel also provides business consulting and professional development training for other allied health professionals throughout Australia. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, paediatric feeding, literacy, parent training and educating and empowering others to optimise 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 own unique potential.

Rachel is passionate, creative and energetic.   She likes helping people be their best self, reading and hanging out with her family.  She doesn’t like people missing out or suffering because of bad care, broken systems or ineffective use of available resources.

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 and has an undergraduate degree in Public Health (Health promotion and Nutrition). Her passion of speech pathology stemmed from a health promotion placement in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she worked alongside a speech pathologist with children with severe cerebral palsy in an orphanage who had no means of communication. This brought on a strong desire to help others improve their communicative abilities and a commitment to providing holistic patient care.

Paige has experience across all ranges of practice areas but her strong clinical interest areas lie in paediatric feeding, motor speech disorders, early language intervention and literacy in which she consistently upskills in.

Paige is friendly by nature, positive, creative and always performs her work with a cheery and energetic attitude!

She loves pottery, hiking, the beach, maltesers and popcorn! She doesn’t like needles or scary movies.

Danny
Physiotherapist

Danny is a Physiotherapist who graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Exercise Science and a Master of Physiotherapy. He has 5 years of physiotherapy experience in aged care.  Danny has 10 years experience as a Tae Kwon Do instructor, where he grew a passion for teaching strength, balance and motor skills primarily with children, but also with adults.  His clinical interests are in providing everyone the opportunity to move and function to the best of their abilities.  

Danny likes sports with specific interests in Tae Kwon Do, Soccer and Aussie Rules.  He also likes building and fixing things and superhero movies.  He doesn’t like onions and dishonesty.

Chiara
Occupational Therapist

Chiara is an Occupational Therapist who recently graduated from Griffith University.  She has placement experience with general paediatric population, child & youth mental health, local refugee community and with TAG in Toowoomba.  Chiara has always been passionate about working with children with ASD, ADHD and developmental delays.  

Chiara is described by her family (to which we agree) as their little ‘ray of sunshine’.  She enjoys the outdoors including hiking, running, walking along the beach with her dogs, and spending time with family and friends.  She doesn’t like boring movies.

Rachel
CEO; Speech-Language Pathologist

Rachel is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with extensive experience with both inpatient and outpatient paediatric care across different service contexts in both Australia and the UK.

Rachel also provides business consulting and professional development training for other allied health professionals throughout Australia. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, paediatric feeding, literacy, parent training and educating and empowering others to optimise 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 own unique potential.

Rachel is passionate, creative and energetic.   She likes helping people be their best self, reading and hanging out with her family.  She doesn’t like people missing out or suffering because of bad care, broken systems or ineffective use of available resources.

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 both inpatient and outpatient paediatric care across different service contexts in both Australia and the UK.

Rachel also provides business consulting and professional development training for other allied health professionals throughout Australia. Rachel is passionate about business leadership, paediatric feeding, literacy, parent training and educating and empowering others to optimise 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 own unique potential.

Rachel is passionate, creative and energetic.   She likes helping people be their best self, reading and hanging out with her family.  She doesn’t like people missing out or suffering because of bad care, broken systems or ineffective use of available resources.

Ella
Occupational Therapist

Ella is an Occupational Therapist who has graduated in 2020 from Australian Catholic University. Ella’s clinical interests are in child development, adults and mental health. She has always been interested in children and young adults but her placements at the Mater Health and Wellness Clinic, Camp Muscular Dystrophy (in Melbourne) and Edmund Rice Camp solidified her interest in working with this age group as well.
Ella has experience working with TAG as an Allied Health Assistant and we are delighted for her graduation and continuing on as an Occupational Therapist. Ella loves Occupational Therapy as she is able to help people and their families gain better understanding and independence. It is a way for her to help people in a holistic way and be able to do the things the person finds meaningful in their life. Everyone has a unique story and journey they are on and she hopes to enhance that experience.
Ella is creative, unique and playful. She likes arts and crafts, dogs and reading. She doesn’t like tomatoes and thunderstorms.

Elise
Speech-Language Pathologist

Elise is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) with placement experience with acute and outpatient hospital settings, schools and a mixed caseload in a rural setting.  Elise has clinical interest areas in adults with progressive neurological diseases and motor disorders across the lifespan.  Elise is also trained as an Orofacial Myologist.

Elise like spending time with her family, travelling and board games.  She doesn’t like wasps.