About Greenlights Therapies

The name Greenlights reflects progress and the calm confidence of moving forward in the right direction.

Greenlights Therapies was inspired by witnessing the Aurora Australis, with its vivid green lights marking the beginning of a new chapter. In Far North Queensland, green lights are also found throughout the natural environment, through the rainforest canopy, across the Great Barrier Reef, and within the rhythms of nature, reflecting clinical journeys of growth and integrated connection that support wellbeing and learning.

Whether it’s the green lights of the aurora or those found throughout nature in FNQ, the message is the same: reducing barriers, supporting growth, and helping people move forward with confidence.

This philosophy shapes how we work. Greenlights Therapies is a practice built on the values of clinical excellence, integrity, warmth, collaboration, and holistic, evidence-based care. Speech pathology at Greenlights is never just about speech sounds or swallowing in isolation. It is about understanding the whole person – their body, activities and participation, peer and family supports, culture, emotions, and lived experience—and creating the conditions for sustainable, confident progress through care that is holistic, integrated, and person-centred.

Clinical Expertise.

Amanda Wilson is a highly experienced Cairns local speech pathologist and allied health leader with a career spanning over two decades. Throughout her professional journey, Amanda has held key leadership and clinical roles across community health, hospitals, private practice, not for profit charities and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations. She has worked both in urban and rural healthcare settings, with a passion for clinical excellence and improving equity of access to high quality healthcare for underserved populations.

Leadership Experience

Amanda’s most recent role was Executive Director Allied Health at Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service, where she led significant allied health workforce expansion and growth in a range of new clinical services, care coordination and patient travel. She has also held positions such as General Manager Child and Family Services and Head of Clinical Services at Royal Far West, a national rural children’s health charity, as well as Acting Director of Speech Pathology at Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service. Her leadership experience includes supporting large organisational change, developing strategic plans, overseeing clinical governance, and serving as an executive member of the Queensland Clinical Senate. She has completed a wealth of training in leadership and management, including recently graduating from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) course.

Clinical Experience

Amanda in an accomplished speech pathologist who has worked in a range of medical and community settings in areas ranging from neonatal care, child development, intensive care, voice clinics, diagnostic swallowing clinics – including videofluoroscopy and Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES), acute stroke and rehabilitation services. She has led the establishment a range of new multidisciplinary clinical services in areas of child development, palliative care, stroke care, and FEES, as well as clinical education services for speech pathology and allied health in Far North Queensland. She has focussed on culturally safe care, working in many remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Amanda has completed extensive training in a broad range of clinical approaches for communication and swallowing difficulties across the lifespan, including Hanen, DIR Floortime and Lee Silverman Voice Therapy. She also has completed extensive training in project management, clinical education and supervision. This ensures she applies the most effective, evidence-based strategies to support all of her clients.

Qualifications:

• 2023: Australian Company Directors Course, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• 2019: Graduate Certificate in Health Administration, Policy, and Leadership, Murdoch University
• 2015: Certificate in Expressive Therapies: Somatic Focused, Creative Counselling for Emotional Integration, Expressive Therapies Institute Australia
• 2004: Master of Speech Pathology Studies, University of Queensland
• 2001: Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Science), University of Queensland

Beyond her clinical work, Amanda is passionate about mentoring and coaching other health professionals. Drawing from her extensive leadership experience in healthcare, she supports others in building high quality health services, improving access to care and advancing their careers.

Memberships and Worker Checks 

• Speech Pathology Australia – CPSP
• Australian Institute of Company Directors – GAICD
• Indigenous Allied Health Australia
• NDIS Worker Screening Check (National)
• Working with Vulnerable People (TAS)
• Blue Card (QLD)