About
Therapaeds is an Occupational Therapy speciality clinic located in the heart of Central that offers most updated evidence based practice and a family centered model to support children and families. Our calm and welcoming environment along with the largest sensory motor gym space in Central help us to support children and families in a nurturing and fun way.
Our sensory motor gym is equipped with resources like zipline, monkey bars, swings and specialised tools to help children build their developmental capacities in a playful way. We believe in a relationship based, child driven, family centered, collaborative and holistic model.
Our Mission & Vision
Creating safety, empowerment and advocacy for Neurodiversity.
Safety, Relationship, Regulation and Process oriented.
Supporting Children and Families using an evidence based, holistic and transdisciplinary model of practice.
Supporting and empowering parents and professionals through trainings and workshops.
Meet the Founder
Urvi Kamdar is the clinical director of Therapaeds Limited and a Paediatric Occupational Therapist for over 12 years. She is a DIR Floortime Expert & Training Leader, Advance Sensory Integration practitioner (SI 610), Neurodevelopmental Therapy certified, STAR certified therapist and trained in providing trauma informed care.
Urvi obtained her advanced training in Sensory Integration from the esteemed University of Southern California (USA) under the leadership of Dr Erna Blanche. This enabled her to support children with neurodiversity including ADHD, SPD, ASD who showed differences in their sensory processing and integration.
She further received intensive training in Neurodevelopmental Therapy from NTDA (USA) which deepened her understanding of motor differences in children with neurodevelopmental conditions such as cerebral palsy, Rett’s syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder amongst many others.
She continued her learning journey of understanding the development trajectory of children through a social emotional lens by undertaking DIR Floortime training by Dr Stanley Greenspan with ICDL (USA) and went on to become a DIR Floortime Leader. She is the only Occupational Therapist in Hong Kong as a DIR Floortime training leader.
She is a trauma informed practitioner and emphasizes the importance of sense of safety and trusting relationship to support her therapeutic alliance.
Additionally, Urvi also has training in handwriting without tears, therapeutic listening, safe and sound protocol amongst others.
Urvi is passionate about supporting children using a whole child, evidence based and family centered approach. She continuously engages in on-going learning opportunities to be able to provide evidence based care for children and families.
She is an advocate for children with neurodiversity. Apart from working with children and families at the clinic and school, she teaches internationally, provides clinical supervision to therapists, training to parents and conducts professional development courses for teachers and is on the advisory committee for a non-profit organization in Hong Kong. She is a mum of two girls and enjoys spending time outdoors, travelling and dancing during her free time.
Our Client’s Perspectives
Sharon
We have started occupational therapy with Urvi since my son was 3.5 years old. Urvi is an excellent therapist, she is professional, patient and passionate about her role. She is always eager to help my son not only physically, but also with his social emotional development. Urvi does care about the parents as well, she did give me great support and advice. We noticed my son’s significant improvement after the therapy, in terms of his motor skills, balancing, muscular strength, body coordination, play ideas, action planning and problem solving skills. My son became more confident both physically and emotionally under Urvi’s help and support. I highly recommend Therapaeds as one of the best OT in Hong Kong.
Mum
I highly recommend Urvi as an occupational therapist. She has worked with my daughter Naomi for three years, and Naomi has looked forward to every session, which Urvi has specifically structured and planned to support Naomi’s individual goals. As a result, Naomi has come a long way with her executive skills and developed a strong foundation of self-regulation. Urvi has always been professional, positive, kind and enthusiastic. Her practice is an amazing engaging space in which children love to spend time. Furthermore, as a parent I am grateful to Urvi for the relationship we have established and her invaluable support.”
Niyati
We had a fabulous experience working with Urvi. She helped us understand our son’s condition and how we could help him at home. Our son Ishaan absolutely loves her and will never forget how one person in the world understood him so well when most people couldn’t.
Mother of Fe
When we were introduced to Urvi, our family had recently moved to Hong Kong and we were facing many different challenges with our son who was 5 years old. She nicely worked with our son and with us with a lot of patience and knowledge explaining what kind of support she could give, how her work would help him and what were the next steps. Urvi was also always ready to connect with us by zoom to discuss and make suggestions when we were having difficulties with his behavior at home. After some sessions, we were able to see significant improvements at home and at school. We are big fans of her work and we highly recommend her!
Mary
Since working with Urvi, my son (who has been diagnosed with ASD and ADHD) has shown tremendous improvements in his self-regulation and attention. Urvi also discovered my son can type, which is amazing as he is fairly nonverbal. Urvi and my son have a very special and loving bond, and we are so grateful to be working with such an amazing and talented occupational therapist. We highly recommend Urvi without reservations.
Mum
Urvi is just incredible with children! My daughter (3 years old) who has some anxiety issues with strangers adores her and every week, she’s looking forward to the session with Urvi. She is an experienced OT and a wonderful support to our family in dealing with challenges we face on a daily basis. We are thankful to Urvi for our daughter’s progress!
Professional Perspectives
Mary
Since working with Urvi, my son (who has been diagnosed with ASD and ADHD) has shown tremendous improvements in his self-regulation and attention. Urvi also discovered my son can type, which is amazing as he is fairly nonverbal. Urvi and my son have a very special and loving bond, and we are so grateful to be working with such an amazing and talented occupational therapist. We highly recommend Urvi without reservations.
Mum
Urvi is just incredible with children! My daughter (3 years old) who has some anxiety issues with strangers adores her and every week, she’s looking forward to the session with Urvi. She is an experienced OT and a wonderful support to our family in dealing with challenges we face on a daily basis. We are thankful to Urvi for our daughter’s progress!
Get In Touch
If you would like to know how we can make a difference in your child and your life, please feel free to get in touch.