Primrose Family Support Services (Primrose FSS) provides occupational therapy for neurodivergent teens and adults, and proudly supports disabled parents, teenagers, and expecting parents.
We provide a growing range of services to help neurodivergent teens and adults build independence and confidence, and to support disabled parents and their families to reach their full potential.
We strongly believe:
In the social model of disability which identifies systemic barriers, derogatory attitudes, and social exclusion (intentional or inadvertent) make it difficult or impossible for disabled people to function in their chosen activities.
Neurodivergent people deserve support that builds on their strengths, not just their challenges.
Disabled parents deserve the same treatment and respect as non-disabled parents.
All families, however you define them, are welcome at Primrose FSS.
Disabled people are worthy of love, intimacy and respect.
Meet the founder.
Kate Toholka is a disabled mum of two (mostly) delightful humans, Pippa (9) and Huey (7). Equipped with hearing aids thanks to a little thing called meningitis, Kate has navigated living with a disability since being a child and her life experiences have drawn her to work in the disability sector.
Kate has extensive experience in the disability sector, including working with those who have psychosocial disabilities. As a practising Occupational Therapist, Kate works predominantly with neurodivergent teenagers and adults, alongside her ongoing work supporting disabled parents — a specialty that grew naturally out of Disabled Mums, after Kate noticed a growing number of mums in the community being diagnosed as neurodivergent later in life, and found she loved working with them. An NDIS participant herself, she has also worked for the NDIA and for NDIS providers, giving Kate a well-rounded understanding of the NDIS system.
A passionate disability advocate, Kate was the Chair of the Surf Coast Shire's All Abilities Advisory Committee before uprooting her family from Torquay, travelled Australia in a caravan for 6 months and resettled into the much sunnier Port Macquarie.
