My assessment considers the interaction between a woman’s health presentation and the real demands of her everyday life. Depending on the referral question, this may include:

• Current capacity for self-care, domestic tasks, meal preparation, mobility, appointments, community access, relationships, caregiving, and health-management activities.

• Energy envelope, activity patterns, recovery needs, symptom triggers, post-exertional impacts, and pacing capacity.

• Cognitive demands, executive-function load, planning, organisation, task initiation, decision fatigue and cognitive endurance.

• Sensory processing, environmental demands, sensory overload, communication demands and social fatigue.

• Autonomic symptoms, positional tolerance, travel tolerance, rest needs and strategies to reduce orthostatic load.

• The fit between current capacity and pre-injury, current, or proposed work demands.

• Workplace, study, home and community environmental barriers and potential adjustments.

• Strengths, interests, roles, values, supports, risk factors, and conditions needed for sustainable participation.

Referrals may be appropriate when a woman:

• Has fluctuating, complex, or difficult-to-predict functional capacity.

• Is experiencing repeated boom-and-bust patterns, post-exertional symptom exacerbation, or worsening symptoms after routine activity, appointments, travel, or work demands.

• Has not sustained an attempted return to work, study, usual roles, or independent daily living.

• Experiences fatigue, orthostatic symptoms, pain, sensory overload, cognitive fatigue, executive-function challenges, sleep disruption, emotional overwhelm, or health-management demands that interfere with daily function.

• Has autistic burnout, neurodivergent burnout, chronic illness-related role disruption, or a mismatch between demands and available capacity.

• Requires an occupationally focused understanding of capacity across home, self-care, community, relationships, health management, and work.

• Needs practical pacing, energy-conservation, sensory, cognitive, routine, environmental, or workplace-adjustment strategies.

• Requires coordinated communication between the client, treating team, rehabilitation provider, workplace, and insurer, with informed consent.

• Needs an independent OT perspective on barriers, supports, and realistic progression towards sustainable participation.

Location: Grange, Brisbane, Queensland, with Australia-wide telehealth where clinically appropriate.

WorkCover Queensland provider number: P0007679069

AHPRA registration: OCC0001723625

ABN: 98 963 690 788

Availability: Limited, suitability-based intake

Client group: Adult women

Referral Suitability:

• Complex chronic health

• Neurodivergence

• Burnout

• Fluctuating capacity

• Participation/work challenges.

Funding pathways considered:

• WorkCover Queensland

• CTP

• Income-protection and other insurer-funded matters, self-funded services

• Medicare-supported care where eligible