Meet The Team
Roshelle Porter
Director & Senior Occupational Therapist
Roshelle Porter is a Senior Occupational Therapist and Director of Spirited Connections. Roshelle completed her Master of Occupational Therapy with Dean's Honours in 2015, following a Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition) and a Master of International Public Health.
She has worked across paediatric therapy settings supporting Autistic children, ADHD, PDA profiles, sensory processing differences, dyspraxia, learning differences, Down syndrome, and feeding difficulties. Her work centres on helping families and educators understand behaviour through the lens of nervous system regulation, capacity, and environmental demands.
Roshelle's extensive professional development reflects her commitment to neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and movement-based practice — including Sensory Integration Foundations and Neuroscience (Ulster University), the Greenspan Floortime Approach, Decoding Autism and Trauma-Informed Psycho-Sensory Interventions with Kim Barthel, the S.O.S Feeding Program, Therapeutic Listening, Primitive Reflexes and Development, and training in sensory defensiveness, dyspraxia, and astronaut training.
Through her work, Roshelle aims to help children and families move from overwhelm toward greater regulation, connection, and capacity in everyday life.
Angela Standley
Occupational Therapist
Angela completed a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy at Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast, following her previous studies and career in environmental management and communications. Angela is passionate about creating relationships with her clients, discovering their strengths and interests, and supporting them where they are at. Angela is passionate about working with children and their families collaboratively to achieve goals in a way which works for them. Angela is an avid learner and is continually developing her clinical skills in a range of areas to get the best outcomes for her clients including Paediatric therapy, DIR Floortime, Toileting, Executive function, Sleep, Social skills, Trauma-informed care, Emotional regulation, Interoception and more. She is passionate about and dedicated to further strengthening her approach to be truly neurodiversity affirming. When not working with clients, Angela enjoys spending time with her family, attempting to grow things in her garden, yoga and being in nature.
Amanda Vazirianis
Occupational Therapist
Amanda Vazirianis is an Occupational Therapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience, with a developing focus on nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and childhood neurodevelopment through neuro-affirming, movement- and play-based approaches.
Amanda graduated from the Lincoln School of Health Sciences in Melbourne in 1996 and has since worked across hospital, rehabilitation, community health, and private practice settings throughout Australia and the UK. She has completed postgraduate training in the Feldenkrais Method and Paediatric Craniosacral Therapy and is currently working towards certification as a Licensed Reflex Integration Through Play Therapist.
As both an occupational therapist and the mother of a neurodivergent child, Amanda brings together decades of clinical experience with genuine lived understanding of the realities many families navigate. Her approach is child-led, strengths-based, and family-centred integrating movement, play, and reflex integration to support each child's unique developmental journey with curiosity, compassion, and respect.
Amanda graduated from the Lincoln School of Health Sciences in Melbourne in 1996 and has since worked across hospital, rehabilitation, community health, and private practice settings throughout Australia and the UK. She has completed postgraduate training in the Feldenkrais Method and Paediatric Craniosacral Therapy and is currently working towards certification as a Licensed Reflex Integration Through Play Therapist.
As both an occupational therapist and the mother of a neurodivergent child, Amanda brings together decades of clinical experience with genuine lived understanding of the realities many families navigate. Her approach is child-led, strengths-based, and family-centred integrating movement, play, and reflex integration to support each child's unique developmental journey with curiosity, compassion, and respect.
Work With Us
At Spirited Connections, we believe in the power of authentic relationships, nervous system safety, and co-regulation as the foundation for meaningful therapeutic work. We are a values-led supporting neurodivergent children, young people, and their families through affirming, collaborative, and creative approaches.
We’re always open to connecting with passionate Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Allied Heath Assistants and like-minded professionals who are:* Committed to neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and low-demand practice* Comfortable with flexible, relationship-centred models of care* Drawn to creating spaces where autonomy, sensory needs, and emotional safety are honoured Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or newly developing your therapeutic voice, we welcome people who are curious, reflective and passionate about supporting children and families.
We offer a supportive and evolving practice environment with opportunities for:* Co-creation of programs and resources* Collaborative peer connection and supervision* Real-world impact through meaningful, individualised work* Purposeful work-life balance and flexibility
If this sounds like your kind of space, we’d love to hear from you.→ Get in touch to express your interest in working with us.
We’re always open to connecting with passionate Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Allied Heath Assistants and like-minded professionals who are:* Committed to neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and low-demand practice* Comfortable with flexible, relationship-centred models of care* Drawn to creating spaces where autonomy, sensory needs, and emotional safety are honoured Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or newly developing your therapeutic voice, we welcome people who are curious, reflective and passionate about supporting children and families.
We offer a supportive and evolving practice environment with opportunities for:* Co-creation of programs and resources* Collaborative peer connection and supervision* Real-world impact through meaningful, individualised work* Purposeful work-life balance and flexibility
If this sounds like your kind of space, we’d love to hear from you.→ Get in touch to express your interest in working with us.