Allied Health Team Training & Workshops

with Ishwari Samarakoon

 

Practical, reflective workshops for allied health teams who want to work well, live well, and stay well.

Team Training

This training supports your team to build sustainable careers, reduce burnout risk, and reconnect with why they do the work in the first place. Through practical strategies, reflective discussion, and personalised guidance, we create a space where clinicians can pause, reset, and take action that actually fits.

Because retaining great therapists isn’t just about supervision or CPD points; it’s about wellbeing, clarity, and the freedom to do good work in a way that feels good.

Speech Pathology Team Training

My coaching approach is clarity, calm, and systems that work –  built on expertise, lived experience, and a commitment to helping Speechies thrive.

What I Offer

1. AI Workshops for Allied Health Teams

Practical, jargon-free training to help your team use AI tools in ways that save time without compromising privacy, ethics, or clinical quality.

Workshop options include:

  • AI for clinical documentation (e.g. note-taking, reports, summaries)

  • Reducing admin and email load with automations and workflows

  • Hands-on demonstrations of custom GPTs and ambient tools

  • Choosing tools that match your practice’s systems and values

Whether your team is new to AI or already experimenting, these sessions will help clinicians feel confident, supported, and in control of how they use technology,  not the other way around.

Speech Pathology Team Training

2. Work-Life Balance Training

Support your team with strategies they can actually use without the pressure to do more, be more, or push through.

Your team will learn how to:

  • Spot and respond to early signs of burnout

  • Manage capacity with more clarity and less guilt

  • Rebuild helpful work rhythms after periods of stress

  • Reflect on their version of balance and what needs to shift

This training is reflective, supportive, and grounded in the realities of allied health work. It’s ideal for PD days, wellbeing initiatives, or post-peak periods when your team needs space to recalibrate.

Speech Pathology Team Training

3. Regulate & Relate: A Sensory & Emotional Wellbeing Workshop

Support your team to feel more confident working with dysregulated clients without burning themselves out in the process. 

This session builds shared understanding and practical tools around emotional regulation, co-regulation, and nervous system safety. It’s especially valuable for teams working with children, teens, or NDIS clients.

Your team will learn how to:

  • Recognise and respond to dysregulation across different client profiles

  • Differentiate between regulation, dysregulation, and co-regulation

  • Develop body-based awareness to use in real-time during sessions
  • Build regulation into routines, transitions, and therapy structures
  • Use visuals, scripts, and sensory strategies that actually work
  • Set and maintain healthy boundaries while still showing up with care
  • Understand their own regulation style and what co-regulation looks like as a team
  • Reduce escalation and feel more confident in challenging moments

This session is highly practical, grounded in nervous-system-informed practice, and designed for speech pathologists, OTs, psychologists, and support staff working across a range of client needs and settings.

Speech Pathology Team Training

Delivery Options

  • Half-day, full-day, or custom format
  • In-person (Perth metro) or via Zoom
  • Tailored to your team size, focus areas, and current systems

Outcomes You Can Expect

  • A calmer, clearer team with more capacity
  • Reduced burnout and improved retention
  • More efficient systems without tech overwhelm
  • Increased collaboration, confidence, and workplace satisfaction

Let’s Build a Better Way of Working

Ready to support your team in a way that actually sticks with tools that fit your people, your practice, and your purpose?

Ready to work with me?

Mentoring in Action

“My biggest takeaway was how to keep myself regulated and get over the imposter syndrome. I’m a much better person, and speechie since putting into practice her teachings. I feel so confident in what the future holds for me and I love my job. I absolutely believe that this mindset was borne from our weekly coaching, which is why I will be continuing as a mentee. Still so much to learn.

Highly, highly recommend Ish to any new grad. She will change your life!”

 

Tanya – WA

“ABSOLUTELY LIFE CHANGING (and yes I am screaming)!!! I have never felt more empowered as a Speechie & soon-to-be business woman, I always walk away from our zoom sessions feeling positive and on top of the world… and I want put everything we talked about into fruition asap”

 

Cheyenne – Bluebell Allied Health

“My zoom sessions with Ish are extremely helpful! I am a completely different wife, mother, Speechie and business owner thanks to Ish”

 

Allie – Evolving Speech Pathology

“Zoom sessions very helpful, particularly enjoying information around EBP and more of your special interest areas… All client information has been helpful and easy to implement straight away”

 

Piper – Regional WA

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