Shiqian Li

Qualifications:

• AHPRA registered Occupational Therapist

• Certificate IV in Disability

Summary Professional Experience:

Shiqian is a registered Occupational Therapist with experience across hospital, school, and community settings. She has supported individuals living with:

• Autism and sensory processing difficulties

• Global developmental delay and intellectual disability

• Stroke and spinal cord injury etc.

Her professional passions include:

• Sensory processing (because the world can be a little loud and bumpy)

• Emotional regulation (helping people find calm and confidence)

• Self-care skills such as toilet training (yes, it’s a milestone worth celebrating!)

• Functional independence, including wheelchair prescription (because mobility = freedom)

What drives her practice:

•    Delivering evidence-based, client- and family-centered care

• Enhancing participation, independence, and quality of life

• Bringing a strengths-based, trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach, shaped by several years living and working in the NT.

A little extra:

• Former Team Leader with Link Up, NDIS provider in Alice Springs

• Honored with the Participant Choice Award for two consecutive years (proof that clients feel seen, heard, and supported)

• Believes that therapy should be effective, empowering, motivated and sometimes even fun.