NDIS Counsellor Mackay
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Humans show resiliency in times of calamity and pandemic, enduring the hardest experiences. It is in human nature to persevere in the face of adversity despite the increasing rate of COVID-19 victims. But with this endurance comes the dreadful price of forgetting other health issues, especially disabilities that come naturally or because of certain events.
Disabilities, like those involving matters of the mind and emotions, are not a laughing matter to Australia, especially in Mackay. Around 4.3 million Australians have been recorded to have disabilities. For these people, life is difficult and their future is walked upon on the road of thorns. The best action to take for safety measures and control is to seek professional help and advice through counselling. To start with, counselling organisations with National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) certification have sprouted.
Defining NDIS
A scheme designed to assist and provide people with disabilities with early intervention support in improving their development progress is introduced progressively across all states in Australia. It ensures that residents are given peace of mind to live normally if they have acquired a disability or are born with it.
“The NDIS is underpinned by an insurance-based approach, informed by actuarial analysis, to the provision and funding of supports for people with disability.”, stated the Parliament of Australia website. The approach is under the NDIS Act that has the aim of assisting people with disabilities. Specifically, it has the following objectives:
Supporting the independence and social and economic participation of people with disability
Providing reasonable and necessary support provisions, including early intervention supports, for participants
Enabling people with disabilities to exercise choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports
Facilitating the development of a nationally consistent approach to the access to, and the planning and funding of support for people with disabilities and
Promoting the provision of high-quality and innovative support to people with disabilities.
Situation at Mackay
Mackay is characterised as a region with 31 beautiful beaches, a rainforest hinterland, and the Pioneer River system. The region ranked third fastest-growing region in Queensland, with a projected annual growth rate of 2.1%. Mackay boasted to be the gateway to a prosperous mining district.
Mackay is one of the big cities in Queensland that shows cases of people with disabilities especially mental cases by which there are signs of government intervention to reduce the impact disabilities have on the residents.
According to the 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing, and Carers, the disability rate is estimated to be 20% with one in five Australians having a disability. Data also shows how disabilities negatively impact the lives of the people with the handicap and those around them.
All residents in Mackay are eligible to receive individualised supports, with certain exceptions arising from those who live in areas with non-available NDIS, must be under 65 years old, meet proper residency requirements and display early intervention requirements.
NDIS Counselling
When people have a disability, they are thrown into the discord of how to deal with life as they know it. There is negative identification about the crisis and their usual response is to withdraw themselves. Humans fear the unknown and having a disability is like facing an unknown future.
People have their disabilities crippling their growth as a person and a resident of the nation whether physically or mentally. It becomes the torn in their path.
The Australian government shows a deep concern for persons with disabilities and has made NDIS available across all states and territories, with Western Australia as the sole exception. Envisioned by the Australian Counselling Association, NDIS ensures that all of those who are suffering from a disability have the support provisions necessary to realise their full potential.
Under the scheme, counselling deals with therapeutic assistance to people with difficulties in accessing a counsellor with the purpose of packeting information to patients. It acts as a set of guidelines for residents to reduce the impact of disabilities and make them as “pain-free” as possible.
Coping and Acceptance
People are naturally hesitant when being offered counselling sessions. In their mind, humans are not susceptible to show disabilities, especially weaknesses in the mind. There is the feeling of shame in having to go through counselling.
Counselling is not just limited to talking through one’s trauma and crisis. It is not just mere support for mental health cases. A counsellor’s main goal is to support a person in developing coping strategies, time management skills and help them build confidence and gain more positive perspectives.
There are different techniques and skills to strengthen mental health and counsellors make certain to teach these ways to their clients. One session at a time, people build up and develop through continuous time with professionals.
Benefits of Counselling
Counselling is not a one-time act. It is a choice of will for people to avail the session, cope with whatever realisations they have, and accept themselves to increase one’s wellbeing and independence.
The session is a great way to get extra support and develop one’s capacity. It is flexible and adapts to an individual’s needs. Below are some benefits of counselling:
Guides you through life transition goals
Refines your social skills so you can learn about different perspectives
Supports your time management and goal setting skills
Supports you in your job seeking journey
Assists your planning, time management and memory issues
Positive Moods Services
Positive Moods is one of the NDIS-accredited organisations in Australia, which can offer counselling services in Mackay. It provides NDIS-approved mental health services and ensures that its participants are comfortable with their appointments. Positive Moods ensures that attending to its clients' needs is a partnership with the carers, family members, and other service providers.
Positive Moods strongly advocates for people with special needs and that having access to high-quality support and protecting them from neglect, abuse, or harm is their topmost priority. Citizens and residents of Mackay can avail Positive Moods services by filling out the contact form on the Positive Moods website, emailing them at ndis@positivemoods.com.au, or by calling them at 1300 001 470.