“Carien has been the lead clinician for our child for the last 6 years. She is highly skilled and empathetic- engaging and sensitive, kind, and highly effective at building a therapeutic relationship with a child with significant additional needs and difficulties. She was able to encourage and support our child to participate in and enjoy the therapy activities, but also to express his thoughts and feelings. Her communication skills are outstanding. She is able to see beyond the presenting symptoms, such as challenging behaviour, and understand and explain what is going on under the surface. She has been systematic in her assessments, adept at diagnosis and thorough and careful in her written communications. She has been a tireless advocate for our child in many difficult clinical and multi-disciplinary team meetings, prioritizing his needs and articulating, with clarity and poise, his complex profile to different agencies. She put our child at the heart of all her interventions but also has supported us as a family with respect and care. Her clinical decision-making, recommendations and wisdom have been invaluable.”
