The Team
Lisa Friend, Director / Physiotherapist (B.Sc., D.Physio)
Lisa graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Doctor of Physiotherapy. She has many years of clinical experience working with people across a wide variety of demographics and settings.
Lisa’s focus is on identifying and achieving person-centred goals through both physical rehabilitation and holistically addressing the factors important to each individual. Previously a competitive cyclist and a qualified yoga instructor, she has a special interest in working with people to learn how to ride bikes and bring more movement and wellbeing into their lives.
When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her young family, travelling, running and gardening.
Availability: Mon, Tue, Wed & Fri
Calli Noriskin, Director / Occupational Therapist (B.HSc., MOTPrac.)
Calli graduated from La Trobe University with a Masters of Occupational Therapy Practice. She has years of clinical experience, spent working within both the public and private hospital rehabilitation sector, then broadening her scope of practice into community-based services. Calli is passionate about supporting adults with disability to achieve their goals, developing their skills and confidence, and ensuring support and assistive technology
needs are met.
In Calli’s free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and dog, travelling and learning new hobbies such as pottery and woodworking.
Availability: Mon, Tue, Wed & Thur
Claire Riley, Speech Pathologist (B.Hsc., MSpPath.)
Claire completed an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences majoring in rehabilitation counselling before completing her Masters of Speech Pathology at La Trobe University. She has worked with a variety of speech, language and communication disorders across the lifespan and continues to keep a broad interest within the scope of speech pathology. Claire enjoys working with adults, but has recently delved into the realm of paediatrics and has up-skilled significantly in this area. Claire has a keen interest in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), swallowing disorders and neurological conditions. Claire enjoys implementing person-centred therapy to assist clients and their supporters in identifying and achieving their communication goals. In her spare time, Claire likes to Greek dance, relax by the beach, go to the footy and umpire netball.
Sinead Holly, Occupational Therapist (B.OT.)
Sinead graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy from the University College Cork in Ireland. Sinead worked in London for a number of years across the acute setting, working in neurorehabilitation, general acute wards, acute stroke, community stroke and hand therapy. This provided her with a wide range of experience working with a variety of clients. Since moving to Australia in 2021, Sinead has been working mostly in the NDIS space. Sinead has a keen interest in working with adults with physical disabilities to achieve their goals. She has a particular interest in assistive technology (AT) prescription and how AT can positively impact on people’s lives. When she is not at work, she enjoys travelling, good coffee and spending time exploring great restaurants around Melbourne.