NDIS Therapy and Counselling and How to Make it Work

Have you ever wondered how other psychosocial therapists are conducting their sessions and what practice approaches are being used in their clinics?

Working as a psychotherapist or social work therapist in the NDIS area is a specialised field of practice that requires a high level of commitment, skill, knowledge, professional expertise and passion to support other people.

With limited guidance available in this area, even the most skilled and committed practitioners can find it challenging to design engaging, yet goal-directed therapeutic sessions that motivate and inspire participants to reach their dreams, aspirations and goals.

Standard interviewing and communication approaches used to engage clients in mainstream areas, don’t always work. Cognitive and behavioural techniques such as CBT, or task – reward based therapies such as Applied Behaviour Analysis, are often unsuitable, and they are not neurodiversity -affirming.

Based on years of therapeutic service provision experience in the NDIS sector, this online training provides information and ideas from the therapist's perspective on how to design, organise and implement your own therapeutic toolbox and resources for successful client engagement, participation, and NDIS goal achievement. It offers an overview of customised therapeutic techniques and tools that can be applied in social work therapy or psychotherapy clinics to effectively engage clients with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities and neurodiverse needs.

From especially designed, unique therapeutic stories to customised cards, quizzes, audio-visual and somatic strategies, we are sharing our professional tips, ideas and secrets along with modified therapeutic strategies that proved effective in our clinic, when supporting people with a range of disabilities.

At the end of the session, the participants would be able to

• Demonstrate an understanding of challenges experienced by therapists when conducting NDIS therapy sessions, and the ways of addressing them.

• Demonstrate knowledge of a range of customised therapeutic tools, strategies, and practice approaches that are both engaging and effective.

• Utilise the strategies discussed in the training session in their practice with NDIS clients

• Design and implement their own customised and unique therapeutic approaches to support NDIS participants, based on examples explored in the training session.

Following the training, all participants will be able to download a copy of the presentation slides and a list of resources directly from Eventbrite.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

• This session starts at 4.00pm and run for 2.5 hours until 6.30pm

This is in South Australian (Adelaide) times. At times training attendees may have incorrect times set up in their Eventbrite accounts or for some reasons the time displayed in their registration may be incorrect Please check these South Australian times against your Time Zone.

INSTRUCTIONS TO DOWNLOAD YOUR POST-TRAINING MATERIALS

Your post-training materials would be available to all training attendees directly from the Eventbrite Online Event Page and immediately following your training

1. From your registration email, please click the red View the Event button. This would lead you directly to your Eventbrite Online Event Page which is only available to training attendees.
2. Scroll down the page until you see a blue link that says CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR TRAINING PACKAGE
3. Click on this link to access and download all post training materials
4. You would also find a link to our post -training survey and we would really appreciate your feedback.
5. The link to online post training quiz for members of the Australian Counselling Association is also available. The participants who answer 80 percent of the quiz questions correctly will receive a certificate of attendance allowing them to claim 5 OPD points with ACA.

ABOUT PRESENTER: This online event is conducted by Alicja Weidner / Principal Therapist and Director from H-L Therapy. Alicja has over 20 years of experience working across a wide range of clinical social work and advisory roles with people with disabilities and mental health conditions. In 2016 Alicja established H-L Therapy where she continues to provide ongoing therapeutic support for adults with disabilities and mental health conditions.

H-L THERAPY - BRIEF INFORMATION. H-L Therapy offers therapy, counselling and assessment services for NDIS, Medicare and privately paying clients. Our focused psychological support services are provided face to face and online. They are informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, Interpersonal Therapy, Relaxation Therapy, and other psychological approaches.

H-L Therapy programs for NIDIS participants and privately paying clients are neurodiversity-affirming and encompass a range of postural and somatic techniques, artistic exploration, meditation, guided visualisation, clinical hypnotherapy and therapeutic storytelling approaches.