Behaviour Support · Coogee

Behaviour Support Practitioner in Coogee

NDIS behaviour support for Coogee participants and families

✓ NDIS registered · 4050138847
✓ Telehealth available
Behaviour Support services for Coogee residents - Ivy Psychology

Ivy Psychology provides NDIS positive behaviour support to participants in Coogee and across the Eastern Suburbs. Behaviour support is delivered in the community - in the participant's home, at school, or in their day program - not at our clinic rooms. We're a registered NDIS provider (4050138847) based in Randwick, and we work with participants across the Eastern Suburbs and south-eastern Sydney.

We are a registered NDIS provider (4050138847) and our behaviour support practitioners are registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

What positive behaviour support involves

Positive behaviour support is an evidence-based approach to understanding and responding to behaviours of concern in a way that improves quality of life. Our work with Coogee participants typically includes:

  • Functional behaviour assessment
  • Comprehensive behaviour support plans
  • Interim behaviour support plans where urgent
  • Support for families, carers, and support workers
  • Implementation coaching for support teams
  • Reduction and elimination plans for restrictive practices
  • Reporting in line with NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission requirements

We work with children, adolescents, and adults across a range of presentations, including intellectual disability, autism, psychosocial disability, and acquired brain injury.

For parents of children at Coogee schools

If your child or teenager attends a school in Coogee and the school has raised concerns about behaviour, or you're noticing significant behaviours of concern at home, behaviour support funded through NDIS can help. We work with families whose children attend schools in the area, including Coogee Public School, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Primary, and nearby secondary schools such as Brigidine College Randwick.

Our work with school-aged participants often includes liaising with the school, attending learning support meetings, observing in the classroom or playground where useful, and giving teachers and parents consistent strategies that work across both settings. This requires consent and coordination with the school, which we organise as part of the assessment.

Where we see Coogee participants

We see participants in their home, at school, or in their day program - wherever supports the assessment and the participant's comfort. We don't see behaviour support participants at our Randwick rooms. Telehealth is available for review sessions and team meetings.

Funding and referrals

Behaviour support is funded under the Improved Relationships budget in NDIS plans. We accept self-managed, plan-managed, and NDIA-managed referrals. To make a referral, call 0405 944 637 or visit ivypsychology.com.au.

About Ivy Psychology

Ivy Psychology, Suite 5, 126-128 Avoca Street, Randwick NSW 2031. NDIS Provider 4050138847.

Coogee, Sydney Eastern Suburbs
Frequently asked

About behaviour support.

How is behaviour support different from therapy, speech, or OT?
Therapy (psychology, speech, OT, physio) is direct one-to-one work where the clinician works with the participant on specific skills, symptoms, or goals. Behaviour support is different - a BSP spends time understanding why a behaviour is happening (the function), then designs a plan that changes the environment and how the people around the participant respond. The plan is implemented by family, support workers, school staff, and others - not just by the BSP in a session. They're complementary services, and many of our NDIS clients have both.
What is positive behaviour support?
Positive behaviour support is an evidence-based approach used in the NDIS context. It focuses on understanding why behaviours of concern happen (the function), then designing supports that improve quality of life and reduce the use of restrictive practices. The work is collaborative - with the participant, family, support workers, and other clinicians involved.
Who can access NDIS behaviour support?
Behaviour support is funded under the Improved Relationships budget of an NDIS plan. To access it, you need an NDIS plan with funding under that budget. If you're not sure whether your plan has the right funding, give us a call - we can read your plan with you.
How long does behaviour support take?
A functional behaviour assessment typically takes six to ten weeks. The plan is written after that. Implementation usually runs over months to years, with periodic review. We won't promise rapid change - meaningful change in behaviour patterns takes consistent implementation by the people around the participant.
What's a restrictive practice?
A restrictive practice is anything that limits a person's rights or freedom of movement - chemical, mechanical, physical, environmental, or seclusion. Under the NDIS, restrictive practices have to be reported, authorised, and managed by a behaviour support practitioner. We focus on reducing and, where possible, eliminating restrictive practices.
Ready to start?

Behaviour Support for Coogee residents.

We respond to referrals within one business day. Or call us - admin is full-time.

Start a referral → Call 0405 944 637