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We listen to you. We help you build more skills, more freedom and more social connections so you can live without restrictive practices.
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We listen to you. We help you build more skills, more freedom and more social connections so you can live without restrictive practices.
We listen to you. We help you build more skills, more freedom and more social connections so you can live without restrictive practices.
More freedom and more social connection for people with disability and their support people.
We provide easy access to excellent Positive Behaviour Support.
We take the stress out of the NDIS and make quality behaviour support easy to access. No long waiting lists.
We build powerful systems that free us to focus on people.
We invest heavily in training and clinical supervision.
We share our learning and support the growth of new behaviour support organisations.
We are a team of psychologists, behaviour analysists and allied health professionals who practice person-centred positive behaviour support.
We provide NDIS participants with psychological services, functional behaviour assessments, behaviour support plans, training, coaching, and consulting.
Key factors in our service include:
Behaviour Support Specialist
Alle is passionate about helping people with their mental health, and providing psychoeducation and therapy to improve people's quality of life, and enabling people with disability, and families who are struggling, to meet their potential.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Andrea has 4 years of experience providing Applied Behaviour Analysis therapy with people with moderate to severe autism. Andrea believes in a person-centred approach and is driven to find innovative ways to help her clients.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Bachelor of Social Sciences 2013 Limerick Institute of Technology
Masters of Applied Behaviour Analysis Queens University UK (currently completing)
Ann commenced providing positive behaviour support to people with intellectual disability and autism in 2014. Ann is especially passionate about empowering people to create change. Ann has a special interest in Applied Behaviour Analysis and is in the process of obtaining her board certification.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Austin has extensive experience in coaching and educating people of all ages to help reach their potential. Austin is especially interested in helping children and adults with autism and disability to achieve their goals.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Brianna comes to Ability Consultants having worked as a Senior Behaviour Therapist and Crisis-Support Counsellor. Brianna is commencing her Masters in Counselling in 2020. Brianna believes that effective behaviour support is based on collaboration with family members and the entire support network around a person.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Manager Clinical Operations
Daniel has extensive experience providing specialist behaviour support with people experiencing a variety of complex needs, including intellectual disability, offending history, AOD and mental health. During Daniel's employment with FACS (2007-2017) he managed clinical teams, Restrictive Practices panels, developed policies, and trained organisations in Positive Behaviour Support.
Behaviour Support Specialist, CEO
David has experience as a Residential Support Worker, Forensic Casework Specialist, Senior Clinical Consultant, and Behaviour Support Specialist while working for FACS (1999-2017). His passion is creating time and labour saving systems that make it possible to provide highly responsive person-centred services.
Behaviour Support Specialist
David is a Registered Provisional Psychologist with 2 years of experience providing Applied Behaviour Analysis therapy with people with moderate to severe autism and ADHC. David has worked as a school psychologist helping young people with anxiety, emotional regulation, autism and ADHD.
Manager General Operations
Denisa is the powerhouse of Ability Consultants. Thanks to the initiative and empathy demonstrated by Denisa and her team, clinicians focus on behaviour support rather than administration, and customers have a smooth and streamlined service.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Dior has been providing positive behaviour support with people with intellectual disability and autism since January 2018. Dior has worked as a Senior Behaviour Therapist, mentoring a team, and supporting best practice. Dior is focussed on allowing clients to have input and control on their decision-making and progress. Dior is completing her honours in Psychology in 2020.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Elizabeth is experienced in school-based psychology and disability service provision.
Elizabeth is committed to providing specialist assessment, intervention and behaviour support services with people of all ages, with a range of needs.
Elizabeth is passionate about helping people achieve their goals and flourish in their lives.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Gina has over the past decade worked as a practice leader facilitating great outcomes for behaviour support clients. Gina has occupied management roles with Uniting Care, FACS, NSW Trustee and Guardian, NSW Civil and Adminisrative Tribunal, and NDIS Quality and Safety Commission. Gina has managed clinical teams, Restrictive Practices panels, developed policies, and trained organisations in Positive Behaviour Support. She is especially passionate about working to empower vulnerable individuals and build on their abilities.
Senior Project Officer
Jane leads high peforming teams. She provides supervision and support to team members, helping them achieve their potential, and deliver excellent client outcomes.
Jane is passionate about building healthy human connections and a strong social fabric--this is where real positive changes start to happen.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Lidia has been providing Positive Behaviour Support with people with Challenging Behaviour and complex needs since 2013.
Lidia is especially committed to providing specialist assessment, training and support with people affected by complex and traumatic life challenges.
Lidia is passionate about providing psychoeducation and advocacy for people whose voice and rights might be at risk.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Lily has six years of experience providing function-based behaviour support with people with intellectual disability, mental health and behaviour challenges.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Kathy has a background in professional counselling assisting families, children and adults, with relationships, grief and loss, suicide prevention and behaviour support. Kathy has a particular interest in child development. Kathy brings her extensive life experience and empathy to the support of people with disability and behaviour needs.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Kire comes to Ability Consultants with 17 years of experience improving the lives of people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour. Kire has extensive experience in psychotherapy, forensic casework, and child protection. He is passionate about working with families and teams to provide empowering, person-centered supports.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Kirsty started with Ability Consultants in January 2019. Kirsty has worked as a Senior ABA Therapist in Perth and Singapore, gaining extensive knowledge, experience and tools to support people of all ages with diverse needs to achieve their goals through the science of applied behaviour analysis. Kirsty is in the process of qualifying as a Board Certified Behavioural Analyst (BCBA).
Behaviour Support Specialist
Mark comes to Ability Consultants having worked as a Behaviour Therapist in multidisciplinary teams, since July 2018, providing direct practical strategies with families, and individuals with behaviour support needs. In addition to his behaviour credentials, Mark brings his Speech Pathology background to assist people with Communication, and provide deeper insight into functional behaviour support. Mark is driven to enable and include significant others in the process and decision making relating to behaviour support.
Behaviour Support Specialist
As a trained PROMPT practitioner, Naydene helps people with speech and behavioural challenges develop functional communication.
Naydene's passion is training staff and family members, enabling them to build skills and provide positive behaviour support in a broad variety of contexts.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Ramoh has 18 years experience in disability services and mental health. Ramoh enjoys empowering people to overcome challenges and live healthier and more fulfilling lives.
Behaviour Support Specialist
Rosa has been providing person-centred clinical services with people of all ages, and with a variety of diagnoses and complex needs since 2015.
Rosa is committed to providing services of the highest quality to people with special needs. Enabling people to meet their goals is her passion.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist
Illawarra, South Coast NSW.
Stephen has a vast experience providing positive behaviour support. He has supported people with disabilities for 25 years, in a variety of roles. Stephen is driven to bring creative and life expanding opportunities into the lives of the people he supports.
Senior Behaviour Support Specialist and Speech Pathologist
Steve is an experienced and highly respected practice leader in Positive Behaviour Support. Steve's career is underpinined by his passion to assist people with disabilities to overcome barriers to their best quality of life. Steve is driven to make PBS accessible to everyone, and build collaborative teams around each individual.
Team Leader Administration
Trini has a background in disability support, aged care, website management and rehab counselling.
She is passionate about the quality of life for people with disabilities and brings her varied skills to provide administrative support to the team.
We are a growing team in every sense of the word.
You will love working with us, if you are motivated to foster learning and growth, in yourself and in others.
We practice Hands-Off Leadership. We don't micromanage or impose KPI's relating to your hours of work. We do collaborate with you to meet the highest clinical standards for the people we support. We provide a highly rewarding work environment, and partner with you to hit your goals.
We are an empowering workplace, driven to attract and develop brilliant clinicians, so NDIS Participants have easier access to life-changing behaviour support.
Hello,
This is me abseiling off a perfectly good mountain. Starting Ability Consultants in 2016 was a similar leap into the unknown world of the NDIS.
In 1999 I began working with and caring for people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviours. People who are ignored, over-medicated, restrained, secluded, cut off from their community or who are punished because they often do not have a high enough level of positive support.
Our mission is to help NDIS participants lead a freer more socially connected life through easy access to excellent Positive Behaviour Support.
We serve 6 customer groups:
We are an NDIS-registered Specialist Behaviour Support Provider and we are working to exceed the required standards.
Person-Centred principles of empowerment and strengths-based practice underpin our approach. We apply these principles to everything we do.
Finally, we are all about innovation. We use technology to be more human. We build and shape the powerful tools we need to serve our customers in new and unique ways.
Thanks for joining us on the learning and growth journey.
CEO - Ability Consultants
David is a Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and provides MI Training on request.
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Ability Consultants is a team of Behaviour Support Specialists who work with clients on site throughout Greater Sydney all the way through to the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Illawarra regions.
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