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Welcome to our family
Our overall goal at the end of the day is to enable every individual to participate in their activities, roles and tasks of everyday life... what they need to, want to and are expected to do. We add enjoyment, empowerment, choice, fulfilment, growth, satisfaction and opportunity to individuals lives.
About Us
Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy is a private, mobile paediatric OT service on Sydney's Northern Beaches. We visit your child in their occupational goal-setting, whether this is at their school, home or community, in order to ensure optimal goal achievement.
As Paediatric Occupational Therapists, we are fully committed to providing you with the best treatment and ensuring that your care is at the centre of our practice. This provides us with an opportunity to enhance your life, whether that be improving handwriting, dressing, balance and co-ordination or offering advice on the latest adaptive equipment available to further improve the quality of your everyday life.
Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy is a person-centred health profession where health and wellbeing is promoted through occupation. We break these occupations down to self-care, productivity and leisure. We promote occupational engagement through remediation, modification or adaptation factors. Our overall goal is to enable every individual to participate in their activities, roles and tasks of everyday life…what they need, want and are expected to do. We add enjoyment, empowerment, choice, fulfilment, growth, satisfaction and opportunity to individual lives.
Paediatric OT
Paediatric Occupational Therapy focuses on helping babies, children and teenagers with cognitive, physical, sensory and other challenges that enhance a child’s independence in their everyday life. With the use of current evidence-based strategies, we help these clients develop skills to grow their confidence, improve general well-being and increase self-esteem.
Mission, Vision, Aims, Values
Our overall goal is to enable every individual to participate in their activities, roles and tasks of everyday life... what they need, want and are expected to do. We add enjoyment, empowerment, choice, fulfilment, growth, satisfaction and opportunity to individuals lives.
Fulfil every child's potential
Every child who is referred to our service is referred with the purpose to improve. Therefore we make it our mission to ensure that they reach their maximal potential. We have pride in our role to support your children to live their lives to their best ability including in areas such as play, school, and self-care. Every child is their own superhero and we are here to support them to discover and unlock their superpower!
Engaging with the team
We believe that engaging with the children's multidisciplinary team and key individuals in their life is truly important to get a true picture of their life so that we can together support them with the best possible approach. This may include their parents, siblings and wider family, pre-school/school teacher, Doctor, Speech Pathologist, Physiotherapist, Psychologist and Play Therapist.
Mission
Individualised programs
Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy provides a service to meet the needs of every child who is referred to us and parent, school or organisation who contacts us. We ensure that we can provide a service that is specific to your needs. This involves speaking to a therapist prior to your appointment at a time and location that is appropriate. We provide services that meet the needs of individuals right through to large schools.
Raising awareness of OT
We believe that all children will benefit from accessing Occupational Therapy. We provide early intervention services that give positive and lasting support to children that can help set them up for the rest of their life. We believe everyone should be educated on how Occupational Therapy can help all children as well as how our core values and activities can aid parents, teachers and organisations in providing the best for the children they represent.
Vision
Our vision is to offer a high-quality Occupational Therapy service to all children, by providing the most up-to-date, evidence-based assessment and treatment.
We aim to promote the awareness and understanding of Occupational Therapy and how it has a strong positive impact on childhood development.
Our Values & Aims
Our Values
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Making a positive impact and difference in children’s lives.
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Passion and enthusiasm to support a child in reaching their maximum potential.
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We highly place value on honesty and integrity.
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We value, nurture and encourage ambition and development to strive for goal achievement.
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We have huge pride in being Occupational Therapists and hold joy in continuing to educate and provide awareness to the benefits of Occupational Therapy.
Our Aims
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Work in a passionate, enthusiastic, and engaging way.
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Make a positive difference in every child, parent, teacher, healthcare practitioner, and organisation we work with.
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Provide a service that meets the individualised needs of each referral.
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Provide a high-quality and outcomes-based service.
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Promote the benefit of children's Occupational Therapy in relation to every child, parent, teacher, school, and organisation.
Our Core Team
Danielle has been an owner and director of an Occupational Therapy and Assistance with Daily Living/Disability Support Work mobile practice on Sydney’s Northern Beaches for a total of 12 years. Her greatest achievements come from regular, direct face to face sessions where she is able to support the child towards achieving their goals and optimal abilities with physical, cognitive, self-care, and more.
Danielle McFarlane
Founder, Director & Paediatric Specialist Occupational Therapist
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Sydney, Australia)
Danielle is the Founder and Director of Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy and is passionate about supporting families to ensure every child lives their best life, every day, in the environments that matter most.
Danielle is committed to improving the lives of children, their families, and the multidisciplinary teams that support them. Her mission is to empower each child to reach their full potential through therapy that is practical, purposeful, and grounded in real life.
Danielle’s professional focus includes neurological, developmental, sensory, and behavioural domains. She believes that all children, teenagers, and young adults achieve their best outcomes when therapy takes place in the settings where they live, learn, and play. Her approach is family-centred, strengths-based, and relationship-driven, ensuring that therapy is engaging, achievable, and relevant to each child’s everyday routines.
Her specialised interest areas include emotional regulation and co-regulation, primitive reflex integration, school-based occupational therapy, and cooking-based therapy. Danielle is passionate about helping children develop the foundational motor, sensory, and emotional regulation skills that form the base of the Pyramid of Learning, enabling them to thrive across all areas of development - including learning, social participation, and self-care.
Having studied Occupational Therapy at Australian Catholic University, Danielle continues to advance her clinical knowledge through extensive ongoing professional development. She has completed further training in Functional Capacity Assessments (FCAs), DIR Floortime, school-based OT practice, aquatic therapy, emotional regulation foundations, primitive reflex integration, the effect of food on children’s behaviour, and cooking-based therapy. This advanced training allows Danielle to provide holistic, evidence-informed, and highly individualised support that meets each child where they are and supports them to move forward with confidence.
Danielle’s practice and leadership are guided by the Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy's core values - passion, collaboration, integrity, advocacy, excellence, and participation. Danielle leads a compassionate and collaborative team who share her values of connection, inclusion, and meaningful progress. Together, they are committed to nurturing each child’s growth, development, and wellbeing through therapy that is creative, functional, and focused on real-life goals, ensuring families feel supported every step of the way.
I am enthusiastic to help make a change in someone's life in any way, shape or form
My job is so rewarding, I get to positively impact young individuals and their family’s lives. I feel so lucky every day
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Jack McFarlane
Business and Practice Manager
Introducing Jack, our Business and Practice Manager at Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy and Enhanced Life Support Services. Jack holds a Bachelor of Business and Commerce with a focus on management and brings more than a decade of expertise in large corporate settings.
He leverages his extensive experience to guide our Enhanced Life families through any finance, funding and administration-related matters.
Tash Corcoran
Support Services Manager
Meet Tash, our dedicated Enhanced Life Support Services Manager. Tash continues to directly support many of our Enhanced Life clients and their families due to her passion as a Support Worker as well as taking on the responsibility as our very own Support Services Manager.
As our Support Services Manager, Tash is at the heart of our team, closely collaborating with Enhanced Life Support Services Families to handle all support-related matters.
Tash's primary focus is to work closely with our Support Team to develop customised support plans that meet each individual client's family and NDIS life goals as well as support capacity they require (based on requested, days and hours during the school terms, and holiday programs).
She is dedicated in her commitment to empowering our clients to reach their fullest potential while ensuring that the quality of support they receive is individualised and gold standard.
Refer Your Child For Occupational Therapy
Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy offers a range of therapy options for children of all ages and have sessions available in your child's preschool or school, home or in the community where appropriate.
Register your interest now through sending us an email or giving us a call to receive an information pack and find out more on whether we can support you with our service.