Sylvie de Swardt Occupational Therapist (Registrar)
Sylvie de Swardt Bangalow Road, Byron Bay, NSW 2481, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 2481
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Sylvie de Swardt Bangalow Road, Byron Bay, NSW 2481, Byron Bay, New South Wales, 2481
Overview
Sylvie offers evidence-based occupational therapy for children, young people, and NDIS participants, supporting clarity, regulation and meaningful participation in daily life. Her approach blends clinical practice with nature, creativity and practical strategies to align mind, body and environment. Sylvie de Swardt is an AHPRA-registered Occupational Therapist with over 10 years’ experience across paediatrics, sensory integration and community based NDIS practice. Sessions are strengths based, flexible and focused on building independence, confidence, and sustainable outcomes.
Qualifications and Experience
Education
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honors)
- Post Graduate in Clinical Education
- Human Health for Climate Change (Harvard University)
- Music for Mental Wellbeing (UC Berkley)
- Health and Nutrition (Stanford University)
Accreditations
- Autism Essentials
- Paediatric Rehabilitation
- Insomnia for Athletes
- Occupational Therapy for Soft Tissue
- Occupational Therapy for 0 to 5 years Childhood Development
- Occupational Therapy Paediatrics
- Sensory Based Feeding
- Children with Sensory and Motor Disorders
- Occupational Therapy for Yoga, Mindfulness and Body-based Therapy
- Understanding Childhood Development and Assessment
- Autistic Burnout Resistance and Recovery
- Reframing Autistic Communication
- Understanding ADHD and Autism
Specialisation and Services
Area of Focus
- Accessibility assessments
- Acquired Brain Injuries
- Adaptations management
- Adaptive Technology
- Addictions
- ADL assessment
- Advocacy
- Amputation rehabilitation
- Anxiety
- Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Care needs assessments
- Career and Vocational Planning
- Caregiver support and education
- Carers support
- Case management
- Cerebral palsy
- Child Psychology
- Cognitive/perceptual assessment
- Counselling
- Depression
- Developmental Delays
- Disabilities
- Dyslexia
- Dysphagia
- Dyspraxia
- Early Intervention
- Eating disorders
- Educational occupational therapy
- Educational Services
- Family Therapy
- Fatigue
- Functional capacity assessment
- General Treatment
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Learning Disabilities
- Manual Handling
- Mental health
- Mobility Issues
- Motor coordination problems
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Musculo-skeletal injuries
- Musculoskeletal therapy
- Neurodivergence
- Neurological disorders
- Nutritional advice
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Physical rehabilitation
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Prehabilitation
- Rehabilitation
- Relaxation training
- Residential care
- Return to work programmes
- Risk assessments
- School environmental assessments
- School readiness
- Sensory Integration
- Sensory Processing Difficulties
- Sexual Abuse
- Spinal cord injuries
- Sports Injuries
- Stress
- Stroke
- Supervision
- Vocational rehabilitation
- Workplace Assessments
- Yoga
Modalities
- Art Therapy
- Choice Therapy
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Positive Psychology
Patient Focus
- Children
- Teenagers
- Families
- Women
- Infants
- People with disabilities
- Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Couples
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
- Non-Binary People
Languages Spoken
- English
Services
- Email consultations
- Emergency after hours contact
- Group Sessions
- Home Visits
- Inpatient care
- Mobile service
- Online consultations
- School Visits