NDIS Support

As an accredited NDIS agency we work with individuals, children and families to help achieve quality outcomes.

Psychology

Our experienced psychologists can support you with a range of challenges and work to improve your wellbeing.

Art & Expressive Therapy

Art & Expressive Therapy offers participants alternate methods of exploring, understanding and communicating their inner worlds, when words are not enough. Our art & expressive therapists work collaboratively with clients to create sessions tailored to their unique needs.

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Counselling and Psychotherapy

Connected Self are committed to working with young people and adults to support their therapeutic needs.

We offer individual and family psychotherapy and counselling as another modality to respond to the mental health and wellbeing needs of young people, and adults. Our psychotherapists and counsellors bring significant experience and qualifications to their roles in a range of contexts.

Occupational Therapy

At Connected Self, our occupational therapists support children, young people and adults who are experiencing challenges in their relationships, attending and participating in school, getting around, daily routines and doing things that matter to them and their family.

We support our clients to participate in activities that they want, need or are expected to do in order to live a healthy and meaningful life.

Innovative Community Participation

Connected Self’s Innovative Community Participation Program is designed to support NDIS participants to build skills to actively participate in their community.

Through side-by-side practice, the program involves highly skilled Community Engagement Practitioners who assist participants to expand their opportunities for community participation and employment.

Youth Employment Services

Our NDIS Youth Employment Service; Creative Pathways to Employment (CPE) is an NDIS-funded program that provides year 12 school leavers assistance to gain and maintain meaningful employment.

This can look like supporting participants to develop relevant skills for successful employment, as well connecting with potential employers and commencing work.

Polyvagal Practices

Polyvagal practices aim to enhance physiological regulation, restore a sense of safety, and promote engagement through autonomic nervous system regulation.

This enhances social and emotional learning, including recognising and regulating emotions (from a physiological lens) and developing empathy for others.

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PACE

Developed as part of attachment-focused family therapy, PACE is a trauma-informed approach aiming to create safe, trusting, emotionally connected relationships with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties. PACE stands for:

Playfulness

  • Approaching with an open, ready, calm, relaxed and engaged attitude.
  • Not taking yourself/situations too seriously.
  • Diffusing difficult/tense situations.

Acceptance

  • Unconditionally accepting the current state/mood/behaviour.
  • Accepting that there are things unseen that lie below behaviour.
  • Acceptance supports feeling secure, safe and loved

Curiosity

  • Understanding the child gently and without judgement.
  • Supporting child to bring awareness to their inner life.
  • Wondering statements.

Empathy

  • A sense of compassion and understanding for young person’s feelings and thoughts.

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Expression of experience when words are not enough

Art Therapy does not rely on verbal language. It is a therapeutic approach that provides many different mediums for communication. It is a useful mechanism when clients may not yet have the language to express their experiences.

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Contain difficult feelings and build tolerance

Art making holds or contains the difficult feelings allowing them to be felt and experienced gradually – building tolerance to discomfort.

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