Resources and training options
for paediatric OTS
Build your clinical reasoning and grow your confidence in relationship-based paediatric practice. Your pace, your way
CPD and training opportunities
INTRODUCTION TO INTEROCEPTION
Currently available via Verve OT Learning
Interoception - the ability to notice and interpret signals from inside the body - underpins so much of what we see in paediatric OT.
Children who struggle with emotional regulation, escalate without warning, or can't reliably identify hunger, pain, or fatigue are often working with a vulnerable interoceptive system.
This workshop, created and presented by Rachel, draws on her 30+ years of paediatric OT experience. It gives you a practical understanding of interoception, clear assessment ideas, and strategies you can apply straight away with children and families.
Particularly useful if you're working with children who: struggle to identify or communicate their emotions; escalate quickly or seem disconnected from body signals; have toileting, mealtime, or sleep challenges with a sensory component; are autistic, have ADHD, or experience anxiety
$90.00 - 1.5 hour workshop
Free resources to support your clinical reflection
Ultimate Clinical Skills Reflection Checklist
Track your paediatric OT skills across key therapy areas, to increase your impact and confidence.
Work through 10 key skill areas, and reflect on where you are at - what might be next to focus on, to further build your skills and move from surviving to thriving?
Foundations in Focus mini-course
This 10-week video series is based on the Clinical Skills Reflection Checklist.
Each week you'll receive a short video linked to one of the skill sets in the reflection checklist, to help you get unstuck and move from surviving to thriving
Rachel's supervision philosophy
“I love supporting fellow paediatric OTs. There’s something powerful about creating space for clinicians to reflect deeply on their practice, trust their clinical reasoning, and grow their confidence. Supervision shouldn’t feel like being assessed or judged. It should feel like having a trusted colleague who’s there to ponder alongside you, offer perspective from experience, and remind you that you know more than you think you do. My role is to hold space for your learning, ask good questions, share what I’ve learned over three decades, and support you to develop your own clinical wisdom.”
— Rachel van der Linden, Founder & Principal OT
