Welcome to Barefoot Therapists

Barefoot Therapists provides therapy to children on the Mornington Peninsula, and support for their families.

We offer a skilled multidisciplinary team including Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, a Teacher, Animal & Equine-Assisted Therapists and Allied Health Assistants. We also partner with a Dietitian and Psychologist to offer a comprehensive, team-based approach to your therapy journey. A multidisciplinary team approach provides ‘best practice’ support for children and teenagers. We welcome everyone by offering a trauma aware, family focused and neurodiversity affirming practice.

We provide services from birth right through the teens and transitioning to adulthood from our centre in Rosebud and our farm in Boneo. Indoor programs suit most children and outdoor sessions particularly suit children where the clinical environment has not been effective or motivating for them to achieve goals. Research suggests better engagement and positive outcomes for managing anxiety when animals, nature and the outdoors is part of the session.

We work with you to find the programs which best meet your child’s requirements, whether that is based at our indoor centre, our gardens, our farm, in nature or in the community.

A Child Safe Organisation

Barefoot Therapists are committed to implementing child-safe practises to create a culture where the safety of children is promoted, child abuse is prevented, and allegations of child abuse will be taken seriously and acted on. Barefoot Therapists comply with Child Safe Standards 2022 (the Standards) under the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 (Vic).