01 Access
Equal access
Short waits, a real intake team, no postcode filter. If you need allied health, we make a way to see you at home, in clinic or online.
About Equal Therapy · Melbourne Allied Health
Equal access to experienced allied health,
for every body and every age.
We started Equal Therapy because too many families in Melbourne were spending months on waitlists, bouncing between providers, and ending up with five disconnected plans and no real progress. We thought we could do it differently. Quieter, and at the kitchen table instead of the clinic.
Melbourne · since 2024
What we stand for
Six principles
we won't compromise on.
We're a small clinic on purpose. Small enough that every clinician actually knows every client we're working with, and experienced enough that the advice you get is the same in your first session as it is in your fiftieth.
02 Outcomes
Practical outcomes
Therapy that gets you to the letterbox, the kitchen, the school run. We measure progress by life, not by session count.
03 Team
An experienced team
Three disciplines under one roof, backed by strong clinical governance. Our clinicians bring real experience and a clear specialty, and you see the same clinician each visit.
04 Place
Goal-based location
Home for ADL work, clinic for hands-on assessment, school for paediatric review, telehealth for follow-ups. Wherever the goal lives, that's where therapy happens.
05 Integrated
Integrated services
OT, Speech and Physio from one provider. Where you see more than one of our clinicians, we coordinate and share information with your consent, so you're not the messenger between your own providers.
06 Care
Person-first care
Plain English. Family included. No jargon, no clinic-speak. Care decisions sit with you. We contribute clinical reasoning, not authority.
The long version
Why we exist,
how we work.
01 · Why we started
Why we started
A better place to do the work.
Max started Equal Therapy with a simple belief: the quality of care a family receives depends on how well the clinicians behind it are supported. So the first goal was a workplace with a strong culture and proper clinical governance, where experienced clinicians are backed to do their best work.
When clinicians are well supported, participants get better outcomes. And by bringing Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology and Physiotherapy together under one provider, families get integrated care instead of five disconnected plans.
“I wanted to build the kind of clinic I'd want to work in: well supported, well run, and focused on outcomes. When clinicians thrive, clients do too.”
02 · How we work
How we work
Integrated services, less to juggle.
Getting OT, Speech and Physio from one provider means less to coordinate. Where you see more than one of our clinicians, we share information with your consent and keep things joined up, so you're not carrying messages between separate clinics.
- One provider for OT, Speech and Physiotherapy
- Information shared between your clinicians, with your consent
- Care coordinated around your goals, not five separate plans
- An intake team that keeps things moving
03 · Where we go
Where we go
Your house. Our clinic. Or your laptop.
Most sessions happen at home, because most goals are in the home: cooking, dressing, talking, moving, regulating. We also see clients at our Dandenong clinic, at our Preston and Werribee branch clinics, and online for review sessions, planning calls, and rural clients who'd otherwise wait six months locally.
In-homeIn-clinic · DandenongPrestonWerribeeTelehealth AU-wide
See where we work
By the numbers
A small clinic,
deliberately.
We grow slowly on purpose. Every new clinician is well supported and backed by strong clinical governance, and every new suburb is added only when we can deliver the same standard at the door.
3
Clinical disciplines
OT, Speech & Physio · the same clinician each visit
3
Clinic locations
Dandenong, Preston & Werribee
40+
Suburbs covered
Across Greater Melbourne, from the south-east to the north and west
3 in 1
Disciplines, one provider
OT · Speech Pathology · Physiotherapy
How we operate
Brand
principles.
The rules we run the clinic by. Short, deliberate, and the same whether you're a self-funded client or an NDIS participant on day one of plan management.
01
Show up.
On time, prepared, with the file read. The hardest part of allied health is reliability, so we make it the easy part.
02
Write it down.
Every session, every plan, every conversation with the family. Verbal advice is good. Written, sharable, dated advice is better.
03
Support our clinicians.
Strong clinical governance, real supervision, and a culture that lets clinicians do their best work. Well-supported clinicians deliver better outcomes for participants.
04
Plain English.
If a family member can't read the report, the report isn't finished. NDIA planners deserve the same courtesy.
05
Stay small.
We grow only when we can keep the same standard of care. We'd rather add one clinician at a time than rush our hiring.
Ready when you are
Start with us,
not next quarter.
One conversation with our intake team and we'll work out who you should see, where, and when. A real intake team, not a scripted call centre, and a quick answer.
3 clinics
Dandenong, Preston
& Werribee, plus home visits
One provider
OT, Speech & Physio,
coordinated care
In-home
Across Greater
Melbourne