Umbrella Care Australia

13/06/2026

🍽️ "She only eats beige foods."
🍽️ "He refuses anything new."
🍽️ "Dinner time turns into a battle every night."

If you've ever worried about what your child is eating, spent time preparing meals only to have them rejected, or felt stressed every time food is involved, you're not alone.

Many children experience feeding challenges, but these difficulties are often about much more than simply being a "picky eater."

Food textures, smells, anxiety, sensory processing, motor skills, routines, and past experiences can all play a role in how children interact with food.

Join Occupational Therapist Divya Rajan as she explores:

✔ Why feeding challenges occur
✔ What may be happening beneath the surface
✔ Practical strategies to reduce mealtime stress
✔ Ways to support children to build confidence around food

Whether you're a parent, carer, educator, or support worker, this session will provide valuable insights and practical tools that you can start using straight away.

📅 Umbrella Parent Connect
💻 Online
💰 NDIS Claimable

Because every family deserves calmer, more positive mealtimes.

Tag a parent, carer, educator, or support worker who might benefit from this session. 💙

01/06/2026

🌟 UMBRELLA PARENT CONNECT – 26 🌟

At Umbrella Care Australia, we believe that supporting a child with autism begins with empowering the people who know and love them best – their parents and carers.

That's why we're excited to share Umbrella Parent Connect – 26, a parent training series developed and delivered by experienced clinicians from our sister company, Umbrella Therapy Services.

Supporting a child with autism can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also come with many questions, challenges, and uncertainties. Through this practical and evidence-based program, parents and carers will gain valuable knowledge, strategies, and confidence to better support their child's development and wellbeing.

Topics include:
✅ Understanding Autism
✅ Sensory Processing
✅ Supporting Communication
✅ Motor Planning and Play
✅ Executive Functioning
✅ Understanding the Why Behind Behaviour
✅ Feeding Challenges and Mealtime Support
✅ Accessing Helpful Supports and Resources

The sessions are delivered by highly experienced Occupational Therapists with extensive experience supporting children and families across Tasmania, Australia, and internationally. Participants will walk away with practical strategies that can be applied immediately at home, school, and in the community.

💻 Online Sessions
📅 Commencing 2 July 2026
💰 Eligible NDIS participants may be able to claim the cost under Capacity Building – Training for Carers/Parents.

👇 We'd love to hear from you!

If you could get professional guidance on one area, what would it be?

🔹 Behaviour
🔹 Communication
🔹 Sensory Processing
🔹 Feeding
🔹 Emotional Regulation
🔹 Something else?

Share your thoughts in the comments below!

📞 To register or find out more:
03 6288 7811 | 03 6288 7777

📧 [email protected]

🌐 umbrellatherapy.com.au

Or click on the link below to express your interest in signing up:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DWGAbBSlqOs-78HtsjNGT5uSeTwIL0t95gMZcJuN5Hk/edit

15/05/2026

If you're looking for Therapist recommended tools, you'll need to visit Umbrella Therapy Mart, who have a massive sale going on right now!

Shop high-quality sensory and therapy products for children and adults. Trusted by therapists. Fast shipping across Australia. Ideal for NDIS participants and support teams.

18/03/2026

Many of you know us through Umbrella Care Australia and Umbrella Therapy Services, where we support individuals and families across Tasmania.

Today, we’re excited to introduce another member of our growing family — Umbrella Therapy Mart!

Umbrella Therapy Mart (UTMart) is our dedicated marketplace where we bring together a range of thoughtfully selected products designed to support everyday living, wellbeing, and independence. Whether it’s practical items for daily use or helpful tools for families and individuals, our goal is to make quality products more accessible to our community.

✨ What makes UTMart special?
• Carefully selected products
• Focus on practical everyday solutions
• Local service with a community focus

We’ll be sharing more soon about the products available and how you can access them.

Stay tuned — and thank you for continuing to support the Umbrella family of services.

05/03/2026

At Umbrella Care Australia, we understand how challenging it can be to support a person with disability and work towards improving their quality of life. Families and carers deserve support teams who are not only capable, but genuinely committed.

Our support services are guided by the clinical expertise of our therapists at Umbrella Therapy Services. The training, systems and processes we use are therapist-designed, ensuring our support workers are well equipped to provide thoughtful, person-centred support.

We are highly selective about who joins our team. Every support worker goes through a stringent recruitment process, and we prioritise individuals with genuine compassion and a true passion for supporting others.

Before beginning with a participant, each support worker is trained specifically about that participant’s goals, needs and routines. We also conduct a short knowledge check to ensure they fully understand how to provide safe, personalised and effective support.

Our goal is simple — to deliver reliable support that truly improves the lives of the people we work with.