TAG Team

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.

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).

Francois
Physiotherapist

Francois is our Toowoomba North Physiotherapist who has a keen interest in Paediatric Physiotherapy with his experience reflecting his interest area. He also comes to TAG with experience in respiratory, orthopaedic, musculoskeletal and neurological physiotherapy in hospital settings. He likes to be active and exercise, enjoy the outdoors and loves animals. He dislikes summer, spicy food and flies. Francois is fun, motivated and honest. 

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.

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.

Alexandra
Speech-Language Pathologist

Alexandra is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who has experience in health clinics, acute hospital settings, primary schools, and paediatric mental health. Alexandra enjoys the generalist nature of her role and is developing her clinical interest areas in paediatric and adult language, speech, and swallowing/feeding.

Alexandra is passionate, empathetic, and bubbly! She likes spending time with friends and family and enjoys great coffee and cute puppy dogs. She doesn’t like horror movies and tuna.

Angels
Speech-Language Pathologist

Liv
Speech-Language Pathologist

Olivia is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist who has joined TAG following 5 years working in remote NSW where she developed a passion for working in Indigenous Health and providing speech pathology services across the lifespan.

Her clinical interests are paediatric speech and language, adult speech and swallowing. She is excited to utilise her skills to support her clients and their families. Olivia lives op shopping, hanging out with friends and delicious food. She disliked being cold, spiders and scary movies. Olivia is warm, passionate and positive.

Monique
Occupational Therapist

Monique is a recent graduate Occupational Therapist from Griffith University. She has become a TAG team member following a variety of placement experience including paediatric private practice at TAG Beenleigh. She also has placement experience on the general medical ward, emergency department as part of the acute care team (mental health) and outpatient hand therapy. Her clinical interests are paediatrics and school aged children with a wide range of diagnoses. She enjoys spending her time on the beach, surf fishing, good coffee, dogs and spending quality time with friends and family. Monique dislikes spiders, spicy food or confined spaces. She is warm, positive and kind.

Carly
Finance 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.

Emily
Administration Officer

Emily is an Administration Officer at our Toowoomba clinics. She has come to TAG with previous experience working as a Senior Receptionist at a GP as well as in administration for Headspace. She likes playing board & card games with family and friends, whale watching, trips to the beach and reading. She dislikes walking through spider webs, scary movies and summer. Emily is cheerful, practical and compassionate.

Linda
Payroll/Finance Officer

Linda is our Payroll Officer and our Accounts & Finance Administrator.  She does a lot of work behind the scenes with accounts receivable and making sure all our staff are happy by paying them!  She is also a mum and step mum of 4 busy children/teens.  She likes organisation, structure and getting things ticked off her list. Her past experience in Administration and previously in Childcare has given her the skills to be able to relate to children and their parents with a big friendly smile and help them any way she can.

Linda loves the beach, her family and friends.  Linda doesn’t love frogs, stress or the cold.

Bronte
Speech-Language Pathologist

Bronte is a recent graduate from UQ with placement experiences across a number of settings including schools (providing services both face to face and over telehealth), combined occupational therapy and speech therapy clinics, and within a cancer care team in a hospital. Bronte enjoys working with both children and adults with her clinical interest being literacy, AAC, swallowing and speech. Bronte is friendly, enthusiastic and diligent. Her favourite things include spending time with family and friends, playing hockey, cuddling dogs and drinking bubble tea. She doesn’t like sour lollies, creepy crawlies (especially spiders!) and expensive petrol prices.

Claudia
Physiotherapist

Claudia is a Senior Physiotherapist with an extensive 22 years experience under the belt. She has training and work experience in Europe (Portugal and the UK) as well as South Africa. She has worked 13 of those years in paediatrics at a school for children with learning and physical disabilities, helping them achieve various goals, ranging from learning how to walk, performing on stage for a school concerts to improving their motor planning and coordination skills so as to partake in activities with their peers and in the community. Claudia loves working with children, adolescents and the elderly. Her biggest goals for her clients are inclusion and for them to feel good about themselves, striving for them to become the best version of them they can be. The words “I can’t” and “it’s too hard for me” don’t exist in her therapy room. She believes that there is always room to improve even if just one baby step at a time.

Claudia is fun-loving, supportive and driven. Loves sports(dancing, rollerblading), reading, painting, writing children’s stories, learning new skills, beach walks and meditation. She especially loves spending time being with friends and family as well as meeting new friends. She doesn’t like bullies, excluding people, scary movies or the cold.

Hamish
Occupational Therapist

Hamish is an Occupational Therapist with placement experience in youth and adolescent mental health, rehabilitation, home modification and paediatric Occupational Therapy. He has clinical interests in paediatric OT, as well as youth/adolescent mental health.

Hamish is kind, calm, and fun, and enjoys sport (mainly Rugby League, AFL and Cricket), Gaming, Sci-fi/fantasy stories and History. He doesn not like snakes, impolite/rude people and lying.

Laura Irvine
Speech-Language Pathologist

Laura is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP) who has also completed a Bachelor of Languages and Linguistics.  Laura’s clinical interest areas include speech and language. 

Laura is kind, funny and fabulous!  She likes anything pink or sparkly, Harry Potter (She’s a Ravenclaw!), hosting game nights, watching fantasy tv shows, and playing with my dob. She doesn’t like spiders, mean people, tea, or the beach. 

Meagan
Speech-Language Pathologist

Meagan is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP).  Meagan’s clinical interest areas are pragmatic language development in adolescents and holistic care of adults post stroke/traumatic brain injury (including aphasia, apraxia, cognitive communication, and dysphagia).  

Meagan is caring, determined and genuine.  She likes hot yoga, earrings, and cats.  She doesn’t like boogers, littering, and sunburn.

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Michelle
Occupational Therapist

Michelle is one of our experienced Senior Occupational Therapist at our Beenleigh clinic. She has previously spent 8 years working in a specialised mental health hospital. Most of that time was spent working with Adolescents with various mental health difficulties and working within the adult substance rehabilitation unit. She also has experience working with adult long term mental health care clients. Her early career was spent working with the  elderly and those affected by general medical conditions resulting in mental health difficulties. 

Michelle enjoys doing a number of activities including crafts, reading, video games, playing boardgames, dancing and singing in the car. She also likes chocolate and camping. She dislikes green beans and the cold. Michelle is quirky, friendly and loving.

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.

Phoebe
Occupational Therapist

Phoebe is a recent graduate Occupational Therapist from Griffith University on the Gold Coast. She has had a range of placement experiences including our very own private practice at TAG Beenleigh where she was able to embrace her clinical interest in paediatrics and young adults! She has also had experience at Redlands hospital emergency (acute) & hand therapy and adult forensic mental health in Townsville.  Phoebe is kind, empathetic and optimistic. She loves camping, hiking, the beach, travel and tea! She dislikes closed minded people and tomatoes.

Sharon
Speech-Language Pathologist

Sharon is a recently graduated Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP).  Sharon’s clinical interest areas are paediatric feeding and dysphagia.  

Sharon is curious, creative and friendly.  She likes a cup of tea on a rainy day, spending time with family and binge watching shows.  She doesn’t like geckos, or raisins in her chocolate. 

Jae
Administration Officer

Jae has previously spent 10 years working at a vet clinic as a Receptionist, then working into a Practice Manager Role. With no previous experience in the vet industry Jae learnt all aspects of animal care, from preventive health to extensive surgeries, also using Chinese medicine techniques.  Previous to working at a vet clinic, Jae was a child care educator and enjoyed working with children, helping them grow and develop their early learning skills. 

Jae is helpful, kind, and empathic. She enjoys spending time with my family and friends, dancing, and driving to the country. She does not like scary movies, snakes, and peas.

Janelle
Intake 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.

Nas

Administration Trainee

Nas has previous administration experience within a small family business where they were able to learn the foundation skills before wanting to expand their knowledge further. They have worked in a variety of customer service based roles where they were able to help people. Nas enjoys playing video games with friends, sometimes horror games where they would try their best not to screen out of fright! One of Nas’ other hobbies is to draw as often as they can, even if this means on the back of a receipt or sticky note. 

Nas dislikes the complexities of the English language, often contemplating why there is a ‘k’ in the word ‘knife’ or the pronunciation of ‘Wednesday’. They are also not so fond of big spiders although the small ones are tolerable as long as they eat those pesky mosquitoes (another dislike of Nas’). Nas can be described as bubbly, creative and energetic. 

Adam
Speech Pathologist

Aimee
Occupational Therapist

Aimee is an Occupational Therapist with experience in outpatient rehabilitation, orthopaedics, mental health, and paediatrics. She has particular interests in pelvic floor OT, sleep OT, and mental health.

Aimee is stubborn, chatty, and happy and enjoys music, board games, a good Sunday lunch with family and anything to do with the beach. She doesn’t like being inside on a nice day, jeans or shoes, and selfish people.

Courtney
Speech-Language Pathologist

Courtney is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, recently graduating from Australian Catholic University. She has a variety of placement experiences that have sparked her clinical interest in dysphagia and all things swallowing. She has experience in an acute hospital setting working with patient post-stroke assessing their swallowing, language and speech skills. She also has placement experience in rural school settings working predominantly on language and literacy skills.

She likes coffee, camping and swimming in the ocean. She hates feeling cold! Courtney is patient, caring and a friendly member of the team!

Paula
Administration Officer

Paula has a Cert IV in Business (Administration) and a Cert III in Health Services Assistance. She has previous experience working in reception/administration for an accounting firm and has taken some time out of the workforce to raise four children.

Paula is quiet, creative, and honest, and likes Lord of the Rings movies and books, watching tv, and doing the Conqueror Challenges. She does not like tomatoes, rude people, and knick knacks.

Sophie
Occupational Therapist

Sophie graduated with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. She has an interest in working with children in areas such as fine motor development, school readiness skills, and play and social skills, and supporting adults to build their capacity and potential in everyday living skills such as cooking and household tasks. She has had placement experience in various areas of OT practice, including mobile/community and paediatrics, as well as the Townsville University Hospital working in the Sub Acute Care Unit supporting patients to safely return home to participate in their meaningful occupations related to work, leisure and self-care activities. She also worked as an OT Assistant during her studies.

Sophie’s therapy style is client-centred, caring and compassionate, with a focus on incorporating clients’ interests and strengths into therapy sessions.

Sophie is passionate, friendly and loves to continually learn new things. Sophie loves sport, particularly playing and watching AFL, mint chocolate and going to the beach. She dislikes extremely hot days and the sound of doors slamming.

Tahlia
Occupational Therapist

Tahlia is an Occupational Therapist who graduated from Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast. Tahlia has a passion for working with both children and adults, and supports them to engage in meaningful activities of daily life and increase their independence. Tahlia enjoys working in a generalist role at TAG, however her clinical interest areas are early play and social skills, group therapy, and increasing independence in self-care tasks – particularly toileting.

Tahlia has clinical experience working with people of all ages and walks of life in a variety of settings including private practice, schools, and other community spaces. She has experience in early intervention, increasing independence in daily living skills, assistive technology, and home modifications.

Tahlia is creative, adventurous and friendly. She loves arts and crafts, snowboarding, the beach, her dogs, and spending quality time with her family and friends. She doesn’t like water dragons or spicy foods.

Inga
Executive Assistant