OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY|AUCKLAND
Yvonne Moy
Occupational Therapy
Consultancy
YMOTC
Parenting is a team sport, let us help
Coaching|Parenting Support & Skills|
ADHD, Autism, SPD, Giftedness| Food Allergies|Pre-Academic Skills
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Coaching
Available to all parents.
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Are you running all day trying to keep the household together? Or are you juggling your career, your children and other responsibilities? Is your to-do list never ending? Parenting takes energy, but you can't pour from an empty cup.
Our highly qualified coach and occupational therapist, Yvonne, works with parents to address issues which have become barriers to achieving what's meaningful to them.
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Evidence-based interventions and coaching approaches are combined to assist you to:​
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Prioritise goals
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Re-balance life
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Form healthy habits
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Overcome challenges
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Enhance resilience
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Improve time management
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Manage stress
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Strive for dreams
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Parenting Support & Skills
Available to all parents.
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In today's modern world parenting has become increasingly complicated and demanding. Yvonne works alongside parents to enable them to implement evidence-based and effective strategies.
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Do you need support with:
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Your parenting role
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Enhancing family relationships
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Does your child need help with:
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Planning & organising
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Managing emotions
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Behaviour
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Sensory issues
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Independence
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Sessions may address:​​
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Positive parenting
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Healthy routines
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Stress management
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Sensory strategies
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Self-regulation skills
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Executive functioning skills
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Schedules and routines
Yvonne is passionate about helping find solutions to the everyday challenges that come along with parenting. These approaches and tools empower parents, enabling children to thrive.
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ADHD, Autism, SPD, Giftedness
Parental involvement in Occupational Therapy is vital for ensuring the child's ability to bring therapeutic work into the 'real' world.
Parents are supported to implement evidence-based skills and strategies to help their child succeed at school, at home, & in relationships.
Sessions may address:
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Organisation and planning
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Sensory concerns
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Self-regulation skills
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Parenting challenges
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Stress management
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Parent training in behaviour therapy
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Executive functioning skills: required for planning, focus, remembering instructions and completing tasks
Research has proven that behaviour therapy is an effective treatment for ADHD - indeed, more so than medication alone - and is most effective when delivered by parents.
Occupational therapy is individualised to address your childs' needs.
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Food Allergies
Yvonne is a parent of a young adult with multiple, severe food allergies. Yvonne incorporates her Occupational Therapy skills, coaching skills and parenting experiences to work alongside parents to help them navigate this unique journey.
Sessions may include:​
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Practical problem solving
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Strategies to mitigate risk
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Stress management
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Support following reactions
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Advocacy with childcare providers and schools.
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Managing social events
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Communicating needs to family and friends
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Preparing to start childcare/school
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Dining out strategies
- Coaching: Support and well-being
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5.
Pre-Academic Skills
Available to all parents.
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Young children who develop pre-academic skills are more likely to succeed academically once they enter school, have better chances of succeeding later on at school, and carry the skills with them as they grow older.
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Children with ADHD are significantly behind their peers by year 4, hence providing them an early boost in pre-academic skills helps their future academics.
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Parent training in pre-academic skills may include:
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Dialogic Reading
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Phonics
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Simple and Complex Phoneme Awareness Exercises
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One to one correspondence
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Gross motor and fine motor exercises and more...
Approach
As an Occupational Therapist, life coach and parent, Yvonne has integrated these skills to provide high quality, client-centred, and holistic services. Expertise in these areas is combined with the latest evidence-based information to offer effective and practical strategies. These strategies help parents overcome parenting challenges, support their own well-being, and empower them with skills that enable them to help their children reach their potential at home, at school and in relationships.
These services are available to all parents and families.
Email for appointments: ymotc@outlook.co.nz
Address
Wapiti Avenue
Epsom
Auckland
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In person appointments at our Epsom clinic
Online/phone appointments available
$120 per hour
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Email today for your appointment, we look forward to meeting you.