NDIS Psychosocial Recovery Coach Townsville

The price of Psychosocial Recovery Coaching varies according to the time of day, and the degree of distance required to get to the participant. For more information on pricing please visit our pricing page.

A Psychosocial Recovery Coach is a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) service provider who assists individuals with psychosocial disabilities in leading fulfilling lives. They collaborate with participants, their families, and other support services to develop and implement personalized recovery plans, aiming to enhance social and economic participation.

1. Psychosocial Recovery Coaches offer various supports, including:
   • Service Options: Assisting participants in discovering and accessing different services and supports that can aid in their recovery journey.
   • Recovery Planning: Identifying individual goals and developing actionable strategies to achieve them.
   • Decision Awareness: Enhancing participants’ awareness of their choices and control over their lives.
   • Capacity Building: Coaching to improve recovery skills such as motivation, resilience, strengths, and decision-making abilities.

Support Collaboration: Providing ongoing support in collaboration with a broader system of supports, including NDIS service providers, families, carers, mental health services, physical health services, peer support groups, and other relevant services.

Yes, participants have the option to select a recovery coach with either lived experience or professional expertise in psychosocial disability and mental health, depending on their preferences and needs.

Recovery coaches are more hands-on and allocate more time to their participants compared to support coordinators. A recovery coach can be more qualified to help participants with their recovery thanks to lived experiences and their specific psychology degrees. This means a recovery coach can provide more relevant assistance than what support coordinators can offer.

A support coordinator is similar to a recovery coach, but they don’t have extensive qualifications and lack lived experience. This means they won’t be able to provide a tailored plan specific to a participant’s needs.

Yes, depending on your NDIS plan and individual circumstances, you may choose to engage both a Support Coordinator and a Psychosocial Recovery Coach to address different aspects of your support needs.

You certainly can! To learn more about how to go about finding a Recovery Coach, you can either ask your support coordinator, see our page on how to find a Psychosocial Recovery Coach, or contact us directly.

There are many features a recovery plan may offer NDIS participants. A plan may cover the following: 

• Identify strengths and barriers: A psychosocial recovery coach is trained to identify a participant’s strengths and what is preventing them from progressing. The recovery coach’s goal is to help a participant overcome their fears so they can build on their strengths. 
• Identification of triggers and strategies to aid recovery: Every participant has different triggers. A participant with PTSD may get triggered by something that reminds them of a traumatic experience. Others may be triggered by words, images or even sounds. A recovery coach may spend time with their participants to identify what their triggers are and develop a plan to help them recover from those triggers. 
• Mapping goals: Everyone should have life goals. For some, it’s buying a house or earning a degree. But for psychosocial participants, their goals may be something as simple as going outside in public or not having panic attacks when they’re in a crowd. A recovery coach helps participants map out their goals into smaller manageable activities so participants achieve them without being overwhelmed.  
• Engage with other NDIS supports: If participants would like to use other support strategies a recovery coach can help them adjust their plans accordingly. 
• Crisis planning: Some participants will need a plan that can help them in case of an emergency. A recovery coach can structure a plan that may help the participant when they experience a trigger. This plan may include activities and exercises the participant or family members can use to help with immediate recovery after a trigger. 
• Connection to required services: A well-structured plan should connect participants to other services they may need. Maybe they have other underlying illnesses such as cancer or HIV which may require support counselling.

1. Engaging a Psychosocial Recovery Coach can lead to numerous benefits, such as:
   • Increased independence and ability to manage daily challenges.
   • Enhanced social and economic participation.
   • Improved personal growth and resilience.
   • Greater awareness and control over life decisions.
   • Access to a coordinated network of supports and services.
   • These benefits collectively contribute to a more empowered and fulfilling life for individuals with psychosocial disabilities.