This is nervous system capacity building. Not therapy, not clinical treatment, not support work… the steady, practical work of helping your body feel safe enough that the rest gets more possible. Self-regulation, everyday independence, being around other people without it costing you the whole day.
Prefer to learn in a small group? Base Camp is my twelve-week online nervous system group, six people max, starting 28 or 31 October. Free taster Wednesday 21 October, 7pm. Read about Base Camp →
What this actually is
That's the whole point, and it's the opposite of how a lot of support is set up. We work through movement, nervous system regulation, and the small habits that hold a life together, woven into one thing rather than kept in separate boxes to tick.
The work tapers on purpose. As your own skill grows, sessions get shorter and lighter, because you're becoming the expert on you. I walk with you while that happens, and then I get out of the way.
What you walk out with
If therapy's next for you, you get there with some ground under your feet. If it isn't, you've still got the tools, and a day-to-day that's on your side.
Inside the intake
The full twelve-week outline is available on enquiry. Here's the rough shape of it.
What the autonomic nervous system actually does. What freeze, shutdown, hyper- and hypo-arousal feel like from the inside, so you can name the state you're in rather than fight it. A lot of the relief comes early here, because you finally have language.
Resourcing, orienting, working within your window, titration. Small, safe-enough practices you can do at home to start. Chosen from the ones that are safest for nervous systems that have been through a lot, drawn from Irene Lyon's SBSM (with permission) and Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing.
Walking with them. In the car park. At the shops. In busier places. This is the bit that matters most, because a practice you can only do lying on your lounge room floor isn't much use at the checkout.
Sleep, food, movement, rhythm. Practical shifts, one at a time (not a twenty-item wellness list you'll feel guilty about by Thursday), that raise your baseline so the hard days cost you less.
Three ways in
Base Camp: Understanding and Supporting Your Nervous System. One hour a week: a small lesson, a practice to try, and a chance to talk about how it went. Six people max, so everyone gets seen. Starts Wednesday 28 or Saturday 31 October, with a free taster on Wednesday 21 October. Sliding scale, $24, $35 or $45 a week.
Moving through the work alongside a few others at the same stage. Everyone starts and finishes together, so nobody parachutes in halfway, lost. The first intake starts early 2027, price to be confirmed. If that sounds like you, put your name down and I'll let you know.
Online is where I do most of this work. In person in Christies Beach is by application if you're local. Built entirely around you and where your nervous system actually is right now. This is the way in for people who'd find a group too much, or who simply want to go deeper without the noise of others in the room.
Who's walking with you
I've spent more than twenty-five years working with people on the things that don't fit in a neat box: their bodies, their goals, their mental health, their next step. Youth work with young people who've been through complex trauma and hardship, employment and career mentoring, training and program development across community services, a boutique fitness studio I built and ran for years, and the last few years working directly inside the NDIS as a support worker, helping people build the routines and independence their plans are aiming at. I still take on a small number of support work clients, separately to this program, by application. Spots are few, so get in touch if that's what you're after.
I've done the work in my own body, and I keep doing it. Complex PTSD and ADHD are part of my own life, not a list of symptoms off a website, so this terrain is familiar from the inside as well as from the training. And I've spent a whole career learning how to teach a skill so it's still there a month later. (I'm not a healed guru. I'm someone still in it, which is exactly why I can sit with you in it.)
The formal bits, for anyone who needs them: Certificate IV qualifications in Community Services & Health (Youth), Workplace Training & Assessment, Career Development and Personal Training; Trauma-Informed Coach accreditation; Child Safe Environments training and a current Working with Children Check; plus a nervous-system training intensive I integrate into the work. I don't claim to be a therapist and I don't deliver allied health or clinical treatment. I bring the qualifications, training and experience listed here to practical skills development and capacity building. More about me and my background here.
The direct NDIS answer
You can check the source documents directly: current NDIS Pricing Schedule and the NDIS guide to registered and unregistered providers.
For support coordinators & plan managers
Happy to send my service agreement to anyone weighing this up for a participant on their books.
How this works · NDIS and private
What changes between NDIS and private isn't the work, it's the shape around it, and that's decided by how each one is funded.
Under the NDIS, I set the work up as a twelve-week block, because that's how long the course takes to do properly, and it can keep going after that if you need it. Nervous system change is slow, and a bit sneaky. The first few weeks can feel like not much is happening, or like things are getting stirred up, and that's often when people stop, right before it starts to land. The block gives us the run-up to get past that bit. If committing to twelve weeks feels like a lot, the first four weeks are a settling-in month, so either of us can stop at the week four check-in without the usual notice. I invoice each session as we go, with no deposits, so you only ever pay for sessions you've actually had.
Privately, I can build you something more wraparound: a tailored plan, billed as a block or ongoing, with support between sessions, not just in them. It's for people who already know this is theirs and want to go all in. The Deep Dive is the fullest version of that, daily access in business hours, longer sessions that taper as your skill grows, and my Movement and Mindfulness platform, community and Q&As alongside the one-to-one work.
Support work
Support work (Core) is me working alongside you in daily life, in the community or in your own space. I weave regulation into your routines: pausing through the day (a good time to go deeper on a practice), movement like walking (a good time to integrate it), and food, where my PT background helps work out what suits you. It's 2 hours minimum in person, and online can be shorter.
If you want pure nervous system sessions, they come from Capacity Building. If your capacity building is only stated for allied health, the same regulation skills can be built through support work under Core, during your routines. Support work is a separate service, by application, and rates are on request.
Starting rates
I always like to make things accessible, and meaningful, so my fees run on three tiers. Pick the one that's honest for you right now: concession if money's tight, the real price if you can, or pay it forward so someone else can have a concession spot. No proof needed.
The bigger picture
Alongside this, I'm running the movement side of my work as a pilot this year, with pole communities and other sectors, to build the stories for exactly this kind of nervous system work. The aim is to take it to the community services, mental health and trauma recovery sectors, so more of the people who need it can actually reach it. This capacity-building work sits on the same thread.
It's early days. If you're in one of those sectors and this resonates, I'd love to talk.
If it feels like it's for you
It does the first bit of working out whether we're a fit, for both of us. No pressure, and no commitment in filling it in. I've kept this deliberately small so I can hold each person properly… I'd rather work with a few people well than a crowd badly.
Start the application