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Get to know me.

Counselling, Capacity Building and Assessment

I provide a mobile social work service across all Adelaide areas and have more than ten years' experience as a social worker. I provide counselling with a focus on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression, Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

 

My expertise is also focused on capacity building and person-centred support. I enjoy encouraging and supporting the participant's participation in a life of their choice. I believe in choice and control and the opportunity to build on the participant's strengths and functioning to live a meaningful life.

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Registered NDIS Provider

I have more than four years' experience as a registered NDIS provider and enjoy connecting and building partnerships with NDIS participants and their families and carers. The National Disability Insurance Scheme gives the participant choice and control in their life and increases their capacity to participate in the social and economic makeup of the community.

 

The NDIS also aims to increase the participant's independence and functioning by engaging with providers through disability support services and helping participants to live independently and achieve their goals. Providers are directed by the NDIS to reassure and build rapport with families and carers, to communicate clearly and work together to help the participant live a meaningful life.

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The NDIS provides reasonable and necessary supports which are required for the pursuit of life goals and aspirations and making sure participants participate in their community to the fullest extent possible. These supports must be good value for money and help participants living with disability to manage and enjoy their lives.

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*My fees are charged according to the NDIS Price Guide.

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The Value of Lived Experience

My lived experience of disability helps me to build empathy, warmth, genuineness, and understanding with participants. It reinforces the social work values of building on the strengths of participants, to empower them to have choice and control in their lives and to strive for fairness and equality. I understand the participant’s needs on their journey and have an extensive knowledge of disability supports which is useful for supporting participants to achieve their goals. I have the skills and expertise to provide supports at many levels because of my accumulated knowledge and lived experience.

 

In my leisure time I enjoy catching up with friends, going to the gym, travelling and photography.

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