You deserve to feel heard
Counselling has more to offer than just talk therapy.
Behaviour Support
Behaviour Support is all about understanding why a person may use unsafe or challenging behaviour, which affects them or those around them.
At Walked Talk, we specialise in positive behaviour supports that reduce or eliminate the need for restrictive practices by creating evidence-based and person-centred, proactive strategies that focus on the individual needs of the participant. This is an evidence-based approach to supporting people with disabilities who use challenging behaviour.
Positive Behaviour Support relies on three related elements:
understanding why the person engages in challenging behaviour (this understanding is developed by conducting a Functional Behaviour Assessment)
finding the environmental causes for challenging behaviour
modifying them so that the behaviour is unnecessary and teaching the person new skills to meet their needs without having to resort to challenging behaviour.
Finding and Keeping a Job
Customised Employment helps people with a disability to get a job. It works with both job seekers and employers to design and create job opportunities. Instead of trying to get an existing job, customised employment focuses on the skills that each person has to offer. It customises a job or self-employment opportunity to fit your skills, interests, strengths, and support needs. It also meets the needs of businesses and the community.
Discovery
Job creation
School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) is a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funded program that helps young people transition from school to work. SLES is an individualized program that provides tailored support to help participants develop skills, confidence, and independence. SLES is available for up to two years and can include:
Work experience
Skill building
Group and individual support
Individualised Living Optios (ILO)
Exploration & Design
ILO funding helps you live your life the way you choose by letting you explore different home and living options and make your own choices about where you live, who you live with, and how you want to be supported. It exists to allow people with lower support needs to be in control of the way they live and what supports they use their funding on.
You get funding for ILO in your plan, but it doesn’t have an exact dollar amount assigned. It is part of your Core support budget.
You will choose a Support Coordinator to help you understand and explore your options. You will work with your Support Coordinator to design your own support package. This happens in 2 stages.
Your Support Coordinator has extensive knowledge about what assessments and reports will be required for the different Home and Living options and can assist with completing the required documentation for submission to NDIS.
Stage 1 – Exploration and Design: working out where you want to live, who with, what support you’ll need and who will support you.
Stage 2 – ILO Supports: putting your choices into action, getting you set up in your chosen living situation, and putting your supports in place.
Get to know what options are available to you
You can use ILO to get help in trying out different living situations, such as living with a host, living in a shared house with housemates or friends, or living alone. ILO is all about designing a support package that suits you and your needs, preferences and goals, so everyone’s ILO package will be different. An ILO includes paid supports as well as informal supports like your friends, family or even neighbours. ILO funding can be a great option for people already in a living situation that works for them, but who just want to add some extra support to their routine.
Early Childhood Key Worker
In the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), an early childhood key worker is a specialist who provides therapy and support to young children with disabilities. The key worker is the main point of contact for the child and family, and works with a team of other professionals to help the child achieve their goals.
Key workers help in many ways, including:
Acting as a team leader: Ensuring the team works together for the child’s benefit
Providing advice and strategies: Building a strength-based approach to everyday tasks
Teaching skills: Building capacity for caregivers and family members to support the child
Coordinating appointments: Reducing family stress and creating better opportunities for social and family time
How we work
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make contact
A consultation call or appointment is a great way to make sure you’re on the right track.
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Come for a chat
Learn about how your counsellor can provide support for the service you are looking for.
The first session may feel like an interview as your counselor asks you questions to understand your issues.
If you fell it’s a good fit, you and your counselor will work together to establish goals for your personalised service.
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Ongoing support
Dedicated support will be provided following the pathway or plan that best meets your needs, values and goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Counselling - What’s the difference between?
Counselling and psychotherapy
A mental health counsellor, or counsellor, is a person who works with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health. Wikipedia Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction with adults, to help a person change behaviour and overcome problems in desired ways. Wikipedia
Psychology
A psychologist is a person who studies normal and abnormal mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes, and behaviour by experimenting with, and observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments. Wikipedia
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptation’s related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. Wikipedia
Psychologists and Psychiatrists often also provide counselling and psychotherapy in addition to their other roles.
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy is a form of psychotherapy and a branch of clinical behaviour analysis. It is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and behaviour-change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Wikipedia
Behaviour therapy
Behaviour therapy or behavioural psychotherapy is a broad term referring to clinical psychotherapy that uses techniques derived from behaviourism and/or cognitive psychology. Wikipedia
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health. CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions and behaviours, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. Wikipedia
Emotional resilience
Emotional Resilience or Psychological resilience is the ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. Resilience exists when the person uses “mental processes and behaviours in promoting personal assets and protecting self from the potential negative effects of stressors”. Wikipedia
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that uses cognitive behavioural therapy methods in collaboration with mindfulness meditative practices and similar psychological strategies. It was originally created to be a relapse-prevention treatment for individuals with major depressive disorder. Wikipedia
Motivational interviewing
Motivational interviewing is a counselling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. It is a directive, client-centred counselling style for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. Wikipedia
Social skills training
Social skills training is a therapeutic approach used to improve interpersonal relations. The therapy focuses on verbal and nonverbal behaviours common in social relationships. Social Skills Therapy often incorporates role-playing to enhance generalization of skills to real-life situations. SpringerLink