NDIS

Under the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), funding is given directly to the person who needs support rather than the organisation that provides the support. YOU choose the services and the service providers you would like to engage with - this is called choice and control.

Emotional Regulation:

  • Identify and manage emotional triggers.

  • Teaching and Implementing coping and relaxation strategies for stress.

  • Support emotional management for independence, routines, work/study success, and navigating transitions.

Self-Awareness and Identity:

  • Discover strengths, values, and thought patterns, understanding capacity and limitations.

  • Recognise bodily sensations indicating emotional states.

  • Reflect on past experiences, learning from them and understanding how they have shaped current behaviours and beliefs..

  • Exploring and embracing the real self, unmasking and being more authentic. 

Communication Skills:

  • Understand and develop personal communication styles, including recognising neurodivergent and people with a disability’s differences.

  • Develop assertiveness, boundary setting, and active listening.

  • Learn to voice needs and seek accommodations.

Problem-Solving:

  • Use structured decision-making and goal-setting.

  • Break down solutions into manageable steps.

  • Developing the ability to assess the scale of a problem to prevent overreaction, and know when to ask for support.

  • Anticipate consequences and learn from attempts to adjust future strategies.

Stress Management:

  • Identify stressors, including sensory triggers.

  • Develop personalized "Stress Toolkits" with coping strategies like mindfulness, breathing, physical activity, creative outlets, and sensory strategies.

  • Cultivate and practice self-compassion and self-kindness.

Self-Management:

  • Improve prioritisation and time management.

  • Develop healthy physical and mental well-being routines, including exercise, diet, and sleep.

  • Create daily and weekly routines with flexibility.

  • Enhance organisation skills and executive functioning.

Behavioural Change:

  • Understand reasons for current behaviours and provide tools for change.

  • Identify target behaviours and set achievable goals.

  • Track behaviour to identify patterns.

  • Develop intervention plans, considering individual needs, support systems, and barriers.

Trauma Support:

  • Provide psychoeducation and normalise trauma reactions.

  • Use grounding and stabilization techniques, EMDR, IFS, and Narrative Therapy for trauma processing.

  • Address trauma linked to neurodivergency and disability, both born with disability and adjustment to acquired disability,

Social Engagement:

  • Promote autonomy and self-advocacy in social goals.

  • Acknowledge and respect social communication differences.

  • Build skills for asking for help and adjustments.

  • Respect special interests as social connectors.

  • Provide strategies for managing social stress and sensory overload.

Navigation:

  • Access and engage with emotions, through emotional literacy and psychoeducation.

  • Assist with navigating formal systems (NDIS, Centrelink, healthcare, etc.).

  • Understand and process relationships, both romantic and friendships, including identifying cycles of abuse, gaining awareness and insight into vulnerability, and setting boundaries.

Daily Living Skills, Life Planning, and Decision Making:

  • Explore career and life interests, managing discrimination, ableism, and barriers to work and education.

  • Discuss and establish strategies for maintaining routines for well-being and independence.

  • Guide self-advocacy and system navigation.