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Occupation
Matters

Transforming Lives through Healthy Occupation

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Occupation
Matters

Transforming Lives through Healthy Occupation
We are a mobile private Occupational Therapy business, providing expert services for adults with disabilities, injuries or illness across northern and western Melbourne, or via telehealth around Australia.

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Occupation
Matters

Transforming Lives through Healthy Occupation
We are a mobile private Occupational Therapy business, providing expert services for adults with disabilities, injuries or illness across northern and western Melbourne, or via telehealth around Australia.

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Now providing Occupational Therapy Consultancy Service

for Complex Disability, Functional Capacity and Occupational Participation

When disability, injury, illness, psychosocial complexity or system barriers create uncertainty for Australian adults, another individual assessment alone is rarely the whole answer.

What is more often needed is experienced occupational therapy reasoning that can bring the evidence together, identify what matters and provide a clear, practical way forward for individuals and their insurers, employers and other organisations.

I am Miranda Bruyn, Consultant Occupational Therapist and founder of Occupation Matters.

I no longer take on referrals for individual OT assessments and services, and now offer Occupational Therapy Consultancy services as follows:

  • Independent occupational therapy consultancy and complex case reviews for insurance managers and injury management advisors
  • Occupational coaching programs for employees facing transitions
  • Medicolegal functional and care needs assessment
  • Clinical supervision, mentoring and education for OTs and other health professionals
  • Multidisciplinary case consultation and problem-solving

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

– Robert Baden-Powell

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Contact us today.

I bring more than 30 years of experience across occupational therapy clinical practice, injury management, disability services, research evaluation, relationship management and organisational systems.

My approach remains person-centred, affirming, inclusive, trauma-informed and strengths-based.

I lean in and learn from my clients. I do not assume that every difficulty sits within the person. I consider the fit between the person, the occupations they need or want to undertake, the environment around them and the systems they are required to navigate.

I adapt communication, assessment and consultation processes to accommodate sensory, cognitive, communication and access needs. In coaching and therapeutic work, the person’s goals, autonomy, identity, priorities and consent guide the process.

In independent and medicolegal work, respect and accessibility sit alongside impartiality, transparency and objective clinical reasoning. My role is to examine the available evidence, identify relevant limitations and uncertainties, and clearly explain the basis for my conclusions.

Whether I am coaching an individual, reviewing a complex case, advising a multidisciplinary team or providing an independent opinion, the focus remains the same: to bring clarity to complexity, translate information and evidence into insight, and navigate practical next steps.