Services available to clients
Daily living assistance for independence.
Activities included but not limited to the following: Meal Preparation: preparing and eating regularly, including breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Personal Hygiene Care: encouraging showering or bathing, getting dressed, cleaning teeth, doing hair, and clipping nails.
Sleeping: assisting with achieving healthy sleep hygiene.
Life requirements: food shopping, paying bills, purchasing clothing and day to day life requirements.
Assistance and Advocacy: Doctors, Specialists, Hospital and health care appointments.
Guidance and assistance around household cleanliness and care.
Attending health and fitness classes for moral support and encouragement.
Assistance and accountability around medication requirements.
Social, Recreational and Community participation.
Activities included not limited to: Assisting, attending alongside participants to engage in activities based on their interests, hobbies, functional capacity and NDIS Goals.
Outings in the community to hobby classes, social meet ups and attending community peer groups.
Capacity building, assisting clients to learn new or build upon existing independent living skills.
Develop a flexible Activity Plan to achieve healthy social lives in the community.
Building an authentic and strong professional relationship with the client to ensure trust is our foundation for care.
Modelling active and reflective listening skills and being being genuine and caring with compassion to foster a supportive team environment.
Lifestyle Coaching, Personal Empowerment and Growth, Goal setting.
Providing guidance and support in personal development, helping clients to achieve their goals and close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.
Sessions focus on personal development, setting goals, exploring values and beliefs, identifying obstacles and challenges, and developing strategies to overcome them.
Working together to create a plan of action, and provide support and accountability as the client takes steps towards achieving these goals.
Overall, these sessions provide a wrap around in the personal growth journey and can include various hands on and creative tools to guide the client in reaching their deepest values, build confidence, and create a fulfilling life!
Sensory Modulation Practises.
Sensory modulation works by changing how a person feels through sensory input. This sensory input changes the physiology of the body, and in doing so creates a shift in how person the person feels.
These practises enable the client to better understand their unique sensory patterns and preferences to enhance participation in everyday life. SMP offers an alternative explanation to particular behaviours seen in mental health clients and help identify interventions to live a satisfying life.
Sensory modulation is broader than just aiming to feel calm and relaxed.
It can also be used to
Ground: when feeling dissociated, spacey or having difficulty focusing on the present
Soothe: when feeling self-hatred, shame, sad or anxious
Calm: when feeling anxious, scared, angry or agitated
Relax: when the muscles feel tense or the mind feels stressed
Alert: when feeling lethargic, tired or sedated, or having trouble concentrating
Reduce or intensify sensations: when feeling self-hatred or shame or the urge to self-harm
Intuitive Movement Therapy
The aim of Intuitive Movement Therapy, also labeled as Dance Movement Psychotherapy, practice is to integrate physical, emotional, cognitive, and social aspects into psychological treatment.
IMT works in the sphere of embodiment and the integral relationship that the body has to the functioning of the mind and in addition, participants can benefit from the physical exercise of the movement.
IMT focuses on embodied experiences emerging through body movements, expressions, and interactions with the environment and the healing power of conscious movement and the embodied creative experience.
In the session, the careful balancing of breathing, moving/expressing, and feeling/sensing is essential and encourages attentiveness and connection to body sensations developing body image, self-relation, and action modulation.
IMT has been shown to improve well-being, mood, affect, quality of life, body image, and interpersonal competence, as well as reducing clinical symptoms, such as depression and anxiety. Meta-analyses have shown that DMT and the therapeutic use of dance can be effective with a range of disorders, including psychiatric symptoms, autism, eating disorders, stress and depression.
IMT helps you re-engage with the sensations of your body, release chronic muscular tension patterns and integrate your breath for deep relaxation. Ultimately, it facilitates an experience for profound physical and emotional healing through movement.
IMT helps clients to: Reach a state of deep relaxation and learn to self regulate your bodily tensions through tapping into the power of your nervous system.
Teaching you to delve internally, to re-awaken sensation in your body, and create an “internal barometer” for how you feel.
Unlock unconscious thought processes and embedded beliefs that may be holding you back from experiencing true vitality.
Understand your brain and body’s capacity for choice and agency to empower you towards a different physical outcome.
Reconnect with your physical and emotional self to recover from persistent stressors or overcome trauma.
Meditation and Breath work practises
When you meditate, you may clear away the information overload that builds up every day and contributes to your stress.
Meditation can give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can benefit both your emotional well-being and your overall health.
The emotional and physical benefits of meditation can include: Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations and building skills to manage your stress.
Increase self-awareness and focus on the present and reducing negative emotions.
Increases patience and tolerance, lowers resting heart rate and resting blood pressure.
Improves sleep quality.
Nature based Therapy - Grounding and Nature Bathing
This is not exercise, or hiking, or jogging. It is simply being in nature, connecting with it through our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Engage your senses to maximise the health benefits of being outside. Nature can generate many positive emotions, such as calmness, joy, and creativity and can facilitate concentration while improving mental well-being.
Grounding improves sleep, normalises the day–night cortisol rhythm, reduces pain, reduces stress, shifts the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic toward parasympathetic activation, increases heart rate variability, speeds wound healing, and reduces blood viscosity.
Earthing (also known as grounding) refers to the discovery that bodily contact with the Earth's natural electric charge stabilises the physiology at the deepest levels, reduces inflammation, pain, and stress, improves blood flow, energy, and sleep, and generates greater well-being.
Sessions include: forest/beach walking, somatic exercises, eating in the forest, cold water therapy, meditation, breathing exercises, aromatherapy, art and drawing, nature journaling and observation. many different activities that will help you to relax and to connect with nature.
It doesn’t matter how fit – or unfit – you are. Nature based Therapy is suitable for any level of fitness.
Holistic healing treatments billed individually and as an extra to NDIS services
Further information can be found on Holistic Health
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