Who and What is Pure Empowerment Physiotherapy?

I’m Kirsten, and I’m the owner and physiotherapist here at Pure Empowerment Physiotherapy.

After spending ten years working for larger companies where the focus was often on profit and growth I realised that I wanted to go back to working with people directly and supporting them to achieve their goals and live better lives.

I wanted to be part of the change and solution, so I left my position as an executive for a large national allied health community provider and started Pure Empowerment Physiotherapy.

My goal is to provide exceptional physiotherapy to people in my local area in the comfort of their homes. I also want to be sure that I provide this care in a way that is nurturing and empowering. I aim to make sure that everyone I support leaves feeling heard, respected, and valued and that my interactions with them are uplifting and positive.

I also want to make this support cost-effective, so I work hard to be concise and to reduce my overheads to be able to provide this care in a way that is accessible to people, hopefully facilitating the ability for people to have more face-to-face sessions and less budget lost to other administrative charges.

A little bit more about me and my qualifications and experience-

  • I’ve worked as a community physiotherapist for the last ten years and have focused on neurological rehab, disability, healthy ageing and paediatrics.

  • I worked for Blue Care and used to run their Parkinson’s Groups and Pulmonary Rehab groups.

  • I worked for CPL in their paediatric and young adult team and provided physiotherapy and equipment prescription services, including running a special clinic called the Walkways Mobility Program. Here, I fitted children with complex physical support needs with special walking frames to help them walk.

  • I was the head of physiotherapy and then all allied health for a large NDIS Allied Health Provider; there I created their graduate training programs, coordinating internal and external training, set up clinical compliance and quality measures, and advocated for ethical and quality care in orthopaedics across all allied health services.

  • I created the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s Level 1 Disability Course. It is an Australian first disability training program for physiotherapists. It includes over 30 hours of content, some online modules and recordings of me talking, plus an online tutorial and a full day of face-to-face training. I still run these workshops and face-to-face days for the APA.

  • I was the Queensland Disability Chair for the APA, and am still on the committee.

  • I was a paramedic for 6 years before retraining as a physiotherapist! I’ve worked in Townsville, Murgon, and Brisbane.

  • I have completed my Graduate Certificate in Clinical Rehabilitation, where I focused on Parkinson’s and Progressive Neurological Conditions, Stroke Rehabilitation and General Community Physiotherapy.

  • I’ve tutored Occupational Therapists at ACU in their Equipment and NDIS module.

  • I have two cats and a dog, and am a huge animal lover.

  • When not at work I’m often reading or playing video games! I’ve even built my own gaming computer.