NDIS Counselling Session

Who NDIS Counselling Is For

NDIS counselling for participants who want more than a checklist approach

Many NDIS providers focus on behaviour management and skill-building, which has its place. But if you’re looking for a therapist who will actually listen, who understands neurodivergence, and who works with you as a whole person rather than a set of goals on a plan, that’s what Liberty offers. NDIS counselling here is real psychotherapy, the same depth and quality available to any client.

  • Autism spectrum and navigating a neurotypical world
  • ADHD and the emotional weight that comes with it
  • Psychosocial disability and mental health support
  • Anxiety, depression, and trauma alongside disability
  • Emotional regulation and relationship difficulties
  • Identity, self-worth, and the impact of living with disability

What NDIS Counselling Supports

NDIS counselling that sees the person, not just the plan

Your NDIS plan outlines goals and funding. But the person behind the plan has a life, a history, relationships, and emotional needs that don’t always fit neatly into categories. NDIS counselling at Liberty works with all of it.

Autism Spectrum

Navigating a world that wasn’t designed for how your brain works, the masking, the sensory overload, the social exhaustion. NDIS counselling at Liberty takes a neurodiversity-affirming approach, which means we work with your experience rather than trying to make you fit a neurotypical mould.

ADHD & Executive Function

ADHD is more than attention and focus, it’s emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitivity, the exhaustion of trying to keep up with a system that doesn’t fit your brain. Therapy explores the emotional impact of ADHD, not just the productivity challenges.

Psychosocial Disability

When a mental health condition is significant enough to affect your daily functioning and participation, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe anxiety or depression, complex PTSD. NDIS counselling provides ongoing psychological support tailored to your capacity and goals.

Identity & Self-Worth

Living with a disability in a world that often treats disability as something to be fixed rather than understood affects how you see yourself. Therapy creates space to explore your identity on your own terms, your strengths, your values, and your experience of the world.

Relationships & Social Connection

Difficulty reading social cues, maintaining friendships, navigating workplace dynamics, or managing conflict in relationships. Whether rooted in neurodivergence, anxiety, or past experiences, therapy helps you understand relational patterns and build the connections you want.

Trauma & Disability

People with disability experience trauma at significantly higher rates and are often under-served by mainstream trauma therapy. Stacey’s specialist trauma training combined with her understanding of disability means she can hold both without one being dismissed in favour of the other.

Our Approach

NDIS counselling that’s actually psychotherapy, not just capacity building

Many NDIS providers offer behavioural support, social skills training, or CBT-based coping strategies. These have value, but they’re not the same as psychotherapy. At Liberty, NDIS participants receive the same depth of therapeutic work as any private client: psychodynamic exploration, IFS therapy, attachment-based understanding, and genuine relational work.

Stacey takes a neurodiversity-affirming approach, which means she doesn’t view autism, ADHD, or other neurodivergence as disorders to be managed. Instead, she works with the emotional experiences that come with being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world, the masking exhaustion, the burnout, the grief of late diagnosis, and the identity work that follows.

Sessions are adapted to each participant’s communication style, sensory needs, and pace. The therapeutic relationship is the foundation and it’s built on respect, not compliance.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Particularly effective for neurodivergent clients, working with the protective parts that developed in response to years of masking, rejection, or not fitting in. A gentle, non-pathologising approach that honours your internal experience.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Explores how your experiences of disability, of the systems around you, of early relationships, have shaped your emotional world. Understanding these patterns creates space for genuine change.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

Your brain isn’t broken. Therapy works with your neurotype rather than against it, understanding sensory needs, processing differences, and the emotional toll of living in a world not designed for you.

Trauma-Informed Care

People with disability experience trauma at higher rates. Every session is grounded in an understanding of trauma’s impact, safety, pacing, and respect for your experience come first, always.

How it Works

How NDIS Counselling works at Liberty

Whether you’re self-managed, plan-managed, or agency-managed, we can help you access therapy under your NDIS plan.

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Free Discovery Call

A 15-minute phone call to talk about what you’re looking for and how your NDIS plan is managed. You, a support coordinator, or a family member can make this call. We’ll explain how therapy at Liberty works and what funding category it sits under. No obligation.

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Getting Started

We’ll work with you (and your plan manager or support coordinator if relevant) to set up your sessions. The first appointment focuses on getting to know you, your goals, your experiences, your communication preferences and beginning to build a therapeutic relationship built on trust.

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Ongoing Therapy

Regular sessions, typically weekly or fortnightly, that work toward your goals while remaining responsive to what comes up. We provide progress reports aligned with your NDIS plan when needed. Available in-person at our Buderim practice or via secure telehealth from anywhere in Australia.

Ready to start NDIS counselling with a provider who sees the whole person?

Book a free 15-minute discovery call. Whether you’re a participant, a support coordinator, or a family member, we’re happy to talk through how it works.

Common Questions

Questions about NDIS Counselling

Liberty is a registered NDIS provider. We accept self-managed and plan-managed participants. If you’re agency-managed (NDIA-managed), please contact us to discuss your options, we may still be able to work together depending on your plan. During the discovery call, we’ll talk through your specific plan management type and how to get started.

Psychotherapy typically falls under the “Improved Daily Living” (Capacity Building) category in your NDIS plan, specifically under therapeutic supports. Your support coordinator or plan manager can confirm this against your individual plan. We provide documentation aligned with NDIS requirements, including progress reports linked to your stated goals.

Many NDIS providers focus on behavioural support, social skills training, or CBT-based symptom management. Liberty offers genuine psychotherapy — deeper relational and emotional work using IFS and psychodynamic approaches. We also take a neurodiversity-affirming stance, which means we don’t treat autism or ADHD as problems to be fixed. If you’ve felt like previous providers didn’t really get you, or that sessions felt surface-level, this is a different kind of experience.

You need an active NDIS plan with funding for therapeutic supports, but you don’t need a separate GP referral. You can contact us directly, or your support coordinator can make the referral. If you’re not sure whether your plan includes funding for psychotherapy, we can help you check during the discovery call.