Megan Faure graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc Occupational Therapy in 1993, having won the award for top research thesis in her year. From the outset her interest was in paediatrics. She has worked in various clinical settings including a paediatric rehab facility in New York, a private practice and a school for children with special needs. Until the birth of her third child, she had a practice in Cape Town, where extremely fussy babies and those with sleep and feeding issues related to sensory processing received treatment.