therapy.

farm therapy

Echidna Hut doesn’t have a clinic. It has a farm. The farm is our working cattle stud, where we breed Scottish Highlands for show and sale.

The farm is the venue for educational activities for Yulinbal School, experience tours, and photo shoots. There is work to be done every day, and there is always some adventure to be found or created.

Farm Therapy with Echidna Hut is personalised and designed for the goals of each participant. It might include

  • animal assisted therapy with selected calves & horses

  • participation in regular daily farm work

  • managing the orchard & veggie garden

  • construction projects

  • nature crafts

Access to Farm Therapy is following an initial assessment with Sharelle, and determination that this is your best match intervention. You may work with Hugh, our Support
Worker, under Sharelle’s guidance.

telehealth

Telehealth is a fantastic therapy option, for families, workers, people with a life.

Therapy sessions can be scheduled for when both of you are home after work, or during your lunch break. It’s fine to go ahead and have the therapy session even when you have all the other kids in the house. The interruptions are going to be part of what you have to deal with if you are trying to apply therapy ideas, so we may as well deal with it up front.

Lots of things that really impact therapy are not so important in telehealth - the time & cost of driving & parking, the weather, the problem of keeping siblings calm during therapy so they don’t affect the receptionists, one person in the house is sick but YOU are still able to do a therapy session.

Of course, there are some things that can get in the way. Generally younger kids aren’t great doing telehealth, and I will normally work with you as the parent in this case. Sometimes you’ll need to get some things ready before the therapy session, this should be household stuff and only take a couple of minutes. If it’s any more than that, for a really special therapy session, I’ll give you plenty of notice or send it myself.

All you need to connect is your device (phone, tablet, computer) with camera and microphone, and internet connection. I will send you a link via SMS that you click to open, that brings you to a secure waiting room, and I bring you in to the session. The session is carried using Google Meet, and all information is encrypted for privacy.