We have been providing 100% telehealth for over 5 years. Consistent & reliable therapy is hard to come by, and our team can support you always, not matter where you are.
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Teletherapy is the delivery of assessment and therapy online. But it’s more than that. It empowers children, adults, schools, hospitals and families to access the services that they need, at the click of a button. Also, research has found that teletherapy is proven to have the same outcomes as in-person therapy!
Anyone who needs it! We serve families with babies and toddlers, children, teenagers and adults. Teletherapy can support any individual, but it can also support schools, hospitals, nursing homes and community health centres to access the high quality allied health services that they need. This means an in-house therapist might not be necessary and you can access a range of experienced clinicians, at the click ofย a button. When we partner with a school or hospital, we provide training for your staff and any families members to support the easy implementation of teletherapy in your organisation.
Weโre always looking to take on more teletherapists. If you think youโre a good fit for the SPOT team, apply today.ย
Initially, our vision was to bring high quality, accessible healthcare and specialised learning support services to those living in rural and remote Australia. Since we started delivering teletherapy services, our vision has evolved. We now have a vision for all individuals, schools, and hospitals to have access to high quality allied health services, without barriers.ย
Throughout this process, we still aim to educate, inform, and empower those who are living in remote areas to make informed decisions about their health, development, and learning.
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Therapy for Anyone, Anywhere
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We stand to empower our patients. Through the highest quality of service, the delivery of above and beyond care, and supporting you to realise your potential, we raise our patients up. Weโre working to break down the barriers to quality healthcare by providing: continuity, consistency, a choice, and quality.
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Spot acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and emerging Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Growing up between Bollon & Cunnamulla, there werenโt many shops. Forget shops, there wasnโt a hospital. We had a bush nurse about 1 hour down the road, and the closest hospital was 2 hours away. In this hospital however, you didnโt find any allied health professionals that provide therapy to little kids with disabilities. My mother tells a story of once driving to Toowoomba, over a 12 hour round trip, to visit a Speech Pathologist. This therapist was unable to fathom how โadvancedโ my brother Jack was. He was a cute little boy with Down Syndrome who had amazing manners and was hitting his speech and language milestones. Shocking. Unfortunately, mum wasnโt impressed with the session and decided that the 12 hour trip wasnโt going to be worth it in the future. What a shame that this was her only experience, and a 12 hour round-trip was her only choice.ย
Becoming a Speech Pathologist was certainly a decision that stemmed from growing up with Jack. Starting a telehealth company? Well that was purely a copy of my childhood schooling, via distance education. We used to have classes, recorder lessons and even choir! Over the UHF radio. If we could go to school over the UHF radio, surely you can do speech therapy over skype, right?
When I was a new graduate speech pathologist, home was a property 80 km from Goondiwindi. I was instructing equestrian at my local pony club, when the mums would ask I would move home to be their speech pathologist. I thoughtโฆ I can do this from anywhere!
My boss at the time was an amazing woman – Kate Broderick from Spot Therapy Hub in Sydney. Kate helped me launch SPOT Rural – our original telehealth company, and my baby. After 2 years of working in Sydney and running SPOT Rural on the side, my sister had a baby and I thought it was time to head back home. So I sadly parted ways with Kate, and took Spot Rural with me back to western Qld. I wasnโt sure where we were going (SPOT Rural and I!), but I was glad to be heading back out west.
After working for 9 months at Qld Health Roma as the paediatric speech pathologist and general speechie in Roma and surrounding towns, I decided that Iโd seen enough. Enough of the lack of quality services in the bush, enough of the waiting lists, and enough of the sheer battle that families have to go through out there to access A service, let alone a GOOD or GREAT service. After one of many very passionate, teary phone calls to my dad, I decided to quit my well paid, comfortable and challenging government job – and go out on my ownโฆ with 8 weekly clients and a breath of fresh air!
Best decision that I ever made. This was April 2018.
The next move was to Brisbane, as the internet was superior and there were Speech Pathologistsโ a-plenty! I was going to build this online empire and I needed to be well positioned for it. Baby steps though, the first official SPOT Rural graduated from a step-ladder in my sisters spare room, to the spare room of my Brisbane sharehouse. And it was heaven.
By January 2019 we had moved the Head Quarters (HQ) to my new home with now fiance, Michael (thanks Mike!!) and we employed our very first full time Speech Pathologist, Taylor. Throughout last year we continued to employ a full time speechie every 2-3 months, and Iโm out of breath just thinking about how much of a whirl-wind that was! By November our little cottage was bursting at the seams, even with most of that staff working 3 days or full time from home. It was time to take the leap into an office, and I only inspected one.
Weโve been here (in Murarrie, Brisbane) since December 2019 and holy moly what a whirl-wind it has been! We decided to re-brand, launching a new website, a new podcast, changing the technology we use for our serviceโฆ and pretty much just running around like wild women GETTING.IT.DONE.
The re-brand journey has been a tough one for me (personally). This company was founded to support rural and remote Australian families, and THAT HAS NOT CHANGED. What has changed, however, is that there are other families who need our help too; families who donโt live in remote areas. They felt like they couldnโt access our service because of our name. Itโs wild, but itโs trueโฆ so we decided to simplify, and re- brand, to โSpotโ.
www.spot.family is our website and is SOOOOO relevant to what we do. Why? We donโt just work with individuals, we work with the ENTIRE FAMILY to improve outcomes and reach their goals. Now, family can be their actual family, or their school family (teachers and TAโs) or their hospital family (nurses and AHAโs). The messaging is clear – we focus on working with you AND your family to make sure that you reach your goals!
So now that youโve heard our storyโฆ. I guess you might think, whatโs next? SAME HERE – Iโm always cooking up exciting things for our team to sink our teeth into, and we have some great things planned for the future.
It feels like yesterday that I was working from the spare room in my sisters house, from a step-ladder, with my one-year-old nephew breaking down the door at a strong crawl. I am so, so proud of Spot, how far we have come, and where we are going. For a business that I was told โwould never workโ – it seems to be working, for many Australianโs and beyond!