Neurotherapy is founded on a passion for excellence in neuro-rehab – for the person who has the injury or diagnosis, their family as well as the therapists who work with them.  

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Following your stroke, acquired brain injury or new diagnosis, we want you to have the right tools to support you in your recovery or management of your condition.  We are here to assist you in using new strategies and tools to thrive and live a life of meaning for you.

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For allied health therapists, we are excited to support you in neuro-rehabilitation knowledge building and development of specific evidence-based skills and strategies that work for your patients and clients. Whether it’s sourcing local or national specialists in a particular modality or facilitating coaching you can access from your living room, our vision is to offer neuro-rehab learning that is dynamic, inspirational and different.  Let us know what you need – we are here to boost your professional growth and always happy to have a conversation and design or source training that works for you and ultimately means better outcomes for our patients and clients.

 

 

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Hi, I'm Robyn Emmanuel, an occupational therapist specialising in neuro-rehabilitation.  My 25 years' experience includes clinical leadership, training and mentoring of therapists and teams, and delivery of inpatient and community-based neuro-rehab in Australia and the UK.  I work with people with stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease and more. At the moment I'm studying Applied Neuroscience (Kings College London) and enjoying bringing this new understanding into therapy and training.

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Recent Neurotherapy training workshops in 2023/24 have included:

• a 1 day masterclass for OTs, physiotherapists and doctors on Enhanced Upper Limb Therapy - presented in collaboration with Ashan Weerakkody (APA Neurological Physiotherapist) from Cortex Neuro Rehab

• In person and online upskilling of a team of WA Country Health Service OTs/physiotherapists/therapy assistants in Sensory Assessment and Treatment after stroke, using SENSe based approaches

• Education session for neuro-rehabilitation OTs and therapy assistants in Neurogenesis: Why it matters and how we can use it in patient engagement and education

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My ongoing upskilling and professional development to support excellence in the neuro-rehabilitation service or training you receive is a priority.  Highlights include:

• currently completing a Masters in Applied Neuroscience (King's College London)

• Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Neuroscience (King's College London) - 2024

• Train the Trainer - Australian Institute of Management

• Perceive, Recall, Plan & Perform (PRPP) - Assessment & Intervention and various other cognitive retraining approaches

• Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) - CIMT is the most researched and best supported upper limb rehab therapy in the world. I completed my training in this gold-standard approach with one of the original development team members, Taub Institute International Trainer Dr David Morris.  Since that time, I've gone on to use it with numerous patients and clients and have trained over 150 therapists in CIMT, as both OT Clinical Lead (Neuro) within WA Health Department and in private practice.  See https://lnkd.in/gvjc424D for my recent co-publication in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.

• Normal Movement (Bobath) 

• SENSe (sensory retraining) with Dr Leanne Carey

• Functional Electrical Stimulation

• Neuro-Orthopaedic Institute (NOI group) training in pain science including Explain Pain & GMI, EP3 

• Clinical EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques / Tapping - introductory and advanced training with Dr Peta Stapleton (Australian Clinical Psychologist of the Year 2019)

• Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) training

• Relational Strategies to Treat Trauma Clients - training with Dr Robert Muller

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (counselling) - Introductory and advanced training with Dr Russ Harris

• Crisis counselling as a Lifeline volunteer

• Member of Occupational Therapy Association and registered with AHPRA

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Recent publication in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal:

https://lnkd.in/gvjc424D

Citation: Weerakkody A, Emmanuel R, White J, Godecke E, Singer B. Unlocking the restraint-Development of a behaviour change intervention to increase the provision of modified constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke rehabilitation. Aust Occup Ther J. 2023 Jul 9. doi: 10.1111/1440-1630.12896

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At Neurotherapy, our goal is for you to be seen and heard, for your recovery to be tailored to what's important to you and for your therapy to acknowledge mind-body connection and the whole of who you are.