The Wild Orange Tree

The Wild Orange Tree Embodied pelvic care & integrated mental health support for women and mothers

The Wild Orange Tree offers holistic health and wellness support that empowers women to navigate each stage of their motherhood journey. I am an occupational therapist, post-natal doula and practitioner of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®. By merging ancient wisdom and professional training I aim to be a source of information and support for women as they prepare, transition and gr

ow into motherhood. Through this passion for women's health I want to see women thrive, embrace their feminine, and achieve their birthing and mothering potential.

Why weren’t we told motherhood holds so many invisible threads of grief?Rarely grief through death,but grief through cha...
25/05/2026

Why weren’t we told motherhood holds so many invisible threads of grief?

Rarely grief through death,
but grief through change.

The grief of who you were before.
The grief of watching your children grow out of versions of themselves you loved so dearly.
The grief of relationships shifting.
The grief of how your body is different.
The grief of expectations unmet.
The grief of witnessing your child hurt, struggle, separate, or become their own person.
The grief woven through every season that asks you to let go while still loving deeply.

The grief that sits so intertwined with joy, hope and love.

So much of motherhood is holding endings that no one names as endings.

And because our culture speaks of grief as something reserved only for death, many mothers move through these experiences believing something is wrong with them - instead of recognising they are standing inside one of the most human parts of mothering.

Perhaps motherhood is, in part, the lifelong practice of loving through continual change.

There’s a way of approaching the body that is always searching for what’s wrong.What needs releasing.Correcting.Fixing.B...
12/05/2026

There’s a way of approaching the body that is always searching for what’s wrong.
What needs releasing.
Correcting.
Fixing.

But the approaches and touch that feel most meaningful to me are not focused on asking:“How do we change this?”

They are asking:“What is present here?”
“Can you be present here with yourself and your body?”
“And what difference does it make if you are?”

Sometimes the body softens.
Sometimes emotion rises.
Sometimes nothing dramatic happens at all.

But often, something shifts simply through being witnessed without urgency. Without force. Without needing to become something else.

Because healing is not always found in doing more to the body.Sometimes it begins in relating to the body differently.

In listening instead of overriding.
In staying instead of abandoning.
In becoming curious about what sensations, tension, numbness, breath, grief, or holding might be trying to say.

Not every moment of contact needs to lead somewhere specific. Sometimes presence itself is the intervention.

I still have a couple of appointments available in Wollongong later this week, and in Melbourne end of the month.

If this kind of approach is something that interests you, I’d love to hear from you 🧡🍊

In case you are wondering when my face to face appointments are next available 🧡🧡
11/05/2026

In case you are wondering when my face to face appointments are next available 🧡🧡

11/05/2026

A reintroduction form me 🧡🍊

As an occupational therapist there are a lot of different approaches and strategies that I can bring to the table. I’m a...
06/05/2026

As an occupational therapist there are a lot of different approaches and strategies that I can bring to the table.

I’m always considering the physical, emotional, cognitive, sensory and identity factors that might be at play. And how that aligned with the things you need or want to do, and the environment you are being asked to do them in.

But underneath it all, I believe that however we work together there is something in common.

We are talking to your nervous system. Exploring what it needs us to know and what it might need to move you closer toward your goal.

Without considering the nervous system we are missing a rather large piece of the puzzle 🧡🍊

05/05/2026

Know you don’t want or aren’t ready for an internal pelvic health assessment?

Wondering what you might be able to get out of an appointment if you say no?

There are so many different ways to support pelvic health and move toward the outcome you want.

Here are some examples of what I have done with clients that involve no contact with the pelvis.

Wondering what this might look like for you?

My DM’s are open, and I have upcoming appointments in Wollongong and Melbourne as well as on the Sunshine Coast.

03/05/2026

Just getting on my high horse tonight…

Pelvic floor therapy should never feel like a violation.

Choose a practitioner that works from an environment that feels most comfortable and safe for you.

You are always in charge and get to say yes or no to internal assessment or treatment.

Any questions???

Maybe you have pelvic pain. But it also means that you can’t sit comfortably at work, or even get there some days. Maybe...
20/04/2026

Maybe you have pelvic pain. But it also means that you can’t sit comfortably at work, or even get there some days.

Maybe you have prolapse. But you notice you don’t feel confident picking your kid up off the floor or carrying the groceries.

Maybe you have a c-section scar. But you care about the weird pull in your belly when you do pilates, or the ‘brick wall’ feeling during intimacy.

Maybe you have incontinence. But you notice you don’t have confidence to run with your best friend. Or go out socially and laugh at the jokes.

Because it isn’t just about the pelvis. It’s how symptoms and conditions impact our day to day lives. Getting in the way of the things we need or want to do. Changing our habits, routines and roles. Moving us further away from who we are.

Occupations therapists don’t ask what is the matter with you, but what matters to do.

Sometimes we do address the pelvis specifically, in context with the whole body. Sometimes we help you adapt, pace or modify the way you go about an activity - short term while you heal, or as part of supporting your body to function well and feel good. We also work in conjunction with other health professionals, because pelvic health can have a lot of things going on.

If your daily life is being impacted by a pelvic health challenge, maybe occupational therapy is what you are looking for 🍊🧡

Connection calls and appointments available for Noosa, Wollongong and Melbourne.

Think that the solution is getting your pelvic floor stronger?Maybe that is part of the bigger picture for you.Or maybe ...
16/04/2026

Think that the solution is getting your pelvic floor stronger?

Maybe that is part of the bigger picture for you.

Or maybe you need to be curious about how safe you feel in your body.

Do you want pelvic floor strength that responds or reacts? Because reaction can easily bring in tension, which creates the very symptoms you are trying to escape.

When we are connected to and grounded in our body, strength becomes something that adapts — not something that grips.
It can soften when it needs to, and support when it’s asked to.

Your pelvic floor isn’t just a muscle to train.
It’s part of a system that listens, protects, holds, and lets go.

So sometimes the work isn’t “more strength.”
It’s more safety.
More awareness.
More permission to feel.

And coming home to really belong in these deeper parts of ourself.

We hear so much about pelvic floor muscles. They are important, but they don’t make up the whole story when it comes to ...
14/04/2026

We hear so much about pelvic floor muscles.

They are important, but they don’t make up the whole story when it comes to pelvic health.

A change to our pelvic health because of pregnancy, birth, scar tissue, injury, illness or life stage shows up occupationally.

These changes can so easily impact what we can do with our body. How we can show up in our roles. How we can connect and contribute. How we feel about ourselves.

Doing is really important.

This is one of the reasons why occupational therapists work in pelvic health. Our expertise is around helping people do the everyday things they need and want to do. And we can work with you to grade, adapt, reframe and change how you can show up in day to day if a pelvic health challenge is a part of your story.

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