WHAT WE DO
How does Valued Directions Occupational Therapy support individuals with mental health conditions or psychosocial disability?
Occupational Therapists are goal-directed rehabilitation professionals who work with people to address the functional implications of disability and promote health and wellbeing through occupation (activity).
Valued Directions Occupational Therapy can assist you to:
- Better understand and self-manage your condition
- Identify your values and goals
- Develop skills and strategies to cope
- Learn emotion regulation skills
- Improve sleep habits
- Make safety plans and relapse prevention plans
- Develop skills to live more independently in the community, including daily living skills and transport training
- Become more active - both socially and physically
- Develop helpful daily routines, considering a balance of self-care, productivity and leisure
- Explore and take on new roles or reconnect with valued roles from the past
- Return to work or explore other vocational options
- Improve relationships and develop new ones
- Link in with community groups and agencies
- Complete NDIS Functional Capacity Assessments, plan reviews and reports
Susan works with people to develop a care plan to meet their goals. The plan will be regularly reviewed with them to make sure the intervention is meeting their needs.
Services are guided by the following theoretical approaches:
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Strength-Based Approach
- Occupational Performance Model of Australia
- Sensory Modulation
- Motivational Interviewing
- Biopsychosocial Model