Our Approach
Your life in context – we strive to meet you right where you are.
OUR PRACTICE
Revival Health
We are highly experienced clinicians with lived experience who help people with complex lives to function better. Our expertise and capabilities provide confidence and help for your journey.
Revival Health is an integrated Occupational Therapy and Psychology practice led by Brisbane-based practitioners Natalie Evans and Matthew Evans. We offer in-person appointments in a safe and welcoming clinic, and telehealth appointments nationwide.
How we work
We understand, better than most, that people and their lives don't fit into neat boxes.
Informed by our research, professional expertise and lived experience of the challenges faced by neurodivergent people, and those with disabilities and persistent psychological and health challenges, we provide a flexible approach to meet your individual needs. We work together – and also independently – to help you navigate your specific challenges within the social, environmental and systemic context of your life.
We believe that people thrive when they feel safe. Our practice is a judgement-free zone, a place where you will feel understood and empowered to challenge yourself, but also a secure space to retreat when things get too hard.
Where lived experience meets clinical excellence
Natalie Evans, OT
AHPRA Registered (Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency)
Mental Health Endorsed with OTA eligible to provide psychological strategies under Better Access to Mental Health.
Full Member of OTA (Occupational Therapy Australia)
Member of OTSI (OT Society for Invisible Disability)
Dr Matthew Evans, Psychologist
AHPRA Registered with endorsement as a Clinical Psychologist, Full Member of AAPi (Australian Association of Psychologists Inc)
Natalie Evans
Occupational Therapist
I chose occupational therapy because it blends creativity and science, with a strong focus on practical outcomes and making a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Early on in my career worked in acute hospital settings, supporting people with new spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes, and other complex conditions, then in rehabilitation, where I valued the longer-term relationships involved in supporting patients through their recovery. I worked as an occupational therapist in both Australia and England, drawn to roles that enabled me to help people adjust to, and make sense of, significant life changes. I then moved into more senior, leadership and strategic roles aligned with my skills and strengths.
While raising our young family and working as a community OT, I further developed my skills in the mental health space while continuing to work with people with physical conditions. I gained lived experience while parenting three neurodivergent children and navigating complex disability, which revealed a new and deeply personal area of interest. This led me to seek roles supporting the autism community, both in private practice and through funded occupational therapy.
My children are now teenagers and adults, and through them I have gained extensive experience navigating education systems, health and medical services, therapies, and the NDIS. This lived experience, combined with my professional background, means I have a great deal to offer other families and individuals. I saw firsthand how my occupational therapy skills supported our own family, and I wanted to extend this support to others. Along the way, I developed a strong commitment to working with people who are marginalised and subject to discrimination. Having lived these challenges personally, I have intentionally focused on building my knowledge and skills around supporting people with disabilities to create meaningful and fulfilling lives, and I value the opportunity to share this learning, experience, and practical resources with my clients.
Dr Matthew Evans
Psychologist
People have always opened up to me and I connect with people from a broad range of backgrounds, so becoming a psychologist seemed like a natural extension of these connections. My interest in health grew first with my doctorate, where my research focused on the ways patients adjusted to spinal cord injury, and later when I worked in a hospital and saw the huge, unmet psychological needs of patients who were navigating the health system. I trained as a relationships therapist as I soon recognised how fundamental close relationships and social supports are for people and how individual therapy is not the optimum way to support these relationships.
Just as Natalie has used her lived experience to inform her occupational therapy practice, mine too is enhanced by my first-hand experiences of neurodivergence and of parenting three neurodivergent children, now teenagers and adults. As with Natalie, my lived experience, combined with my professional background, means I have a great deal to offer other families and individuals.
Working with neurodivergent people has felt like a natural calling for me, and I find I intuitively “get” my neurodivergent clients in a way that makes them feel deeply understood and therefore better able to navigate their own challenges. I also have a special interest in supporting people with persistent health conditions such as diabetes and gastro-intestinal illness. These areas, together with my expertise in relationship counselling make for a busy and fulfilling career.
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