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Tamar Ovadia
Occupational Therapy
B. Sc Occupational Therapy (UCT)
Sensory Integration Therapy Certified (Ayres SI)
Meet the Team
Tamar Ovadia graduated from UCT in 2007 and spent the following year doing her community service at South Rand Hospital in Johannesburg where she treated a variety of patients from children with Celebral Palsy to adult stroke victims.
In 2009 Tamar moved to the United Kingdom in order to broaden her work experience and worked in hospitals and the community. In 2010 Tamar returned back to Cape Town and took on a position at a well established private practice in Blouberg. It was there that she worked for almost 3 years in a practice that focused on Sensory Integration, managing her own paediatric caseload.
It was during this time that she developed her passion for working with children who struggle with sensory processing disorders and other developmental delays. In 2012 she completed her post-graduate training in Sensory Integration Therapy (Ayres SI).
In 2013 she opened her own private practice in Camps Bay, followed by a second practice in Hout Bay. Running a school based practice has created the opportunity to work as part of a team, making therapy more transferrable on a practical level into the classroom. Having her own two bouncing little boys along the way who have given her work with children a whole new perspective.
Tamar has a desire to keep learning and to make therapy practical and easy to understand and integrate for parents and teachers. Her passion is working with a broad range of children from the little ones with sensory and behavioural difficulties, to older children with academic and concentration difficulties.
Nicola Cilliers has always had an interest in early childhood development and family relationships, leading her to pursue an undergraduate degree in Occupational Therapy at the University of Cape Town. After graduating, Nicola completed her community service year in the Saldanha-Bay sub-district, offering clinic-based services across several OT fields, but predominantly serving young children and their families. She entered a school-based, paediatric private practice soon after where she gained experience working with children with developmental delays and sensory integration difficulties and joined Tamar Ovadia Occupational Therapy practice shortly thereafter.
Nicola completed her Masters degree in Occupational Therapy in 2025, with her thesis exploring how the occupation of parenting unfolded in a context of multidimensional poverty. Nicola has experience working with a variety of sensory processing and developmental difficulties, and looks forward to her continued professional development.
Nicola enjoys working with children of all ages and feels strongly about forming a unique relationship with each child as an important foundation for successful therapy. Nicola especially enjoys maximising on these daily opportunities to channel her inner child!
Together, Tamar and Nicola provide therapy services both in Hout Bay and Camps Bay as well as providing therapy sessions at Llandudno Primary school, Valley pre-primary and the Camps Bay Preparatory School. They offer individualized parent consultations, educational talks for parents and staff at different schools and also offer individual classroom visits for therapy clients so that a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach can be maintained.
