Assessments, reports, equipment, home modifications and capacity building — delivered at home, across the Mornington Peninsula.
Every practising occupational therapist in Australia must hold AHPRA registration. That is the clinical registration, it is not optional, and it governs qualifications, standards, insurance and conduct. Louise's is OCC0001934263.
NDIS registration is a separate, additional process about the business rather than the clinician — audits, policies, quality systems. It is a substantial administrative burden for a one-person practice, and plenty of experienced sole practitioners choose not to carry it.
If you are self-managed or plan-managed, this costs you nothing: you can engage any provider you like. If you are NDIA-managed, you need a registered provider, and we would rather tell you that on this page than after you have made contact.
Not sure which you are? Your plan document says so, or your support coordinator will know. The difference explained →
This is the part most plans are handed over without anyone explaining. It is worth knowing, because the wrong budget line is the most common reason a request stalls.
| Budget | What it pays for |
|---|---|
| Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living | Almost all of our work: assessment, therapy sessions, assistive technology assessment and prescription time, home modification assessment and report writing, training for you and your support workers, and progress reports. This is the budget most participants have and the one most often left partly unspent. |
| Capital Supports | The equipment and the building work themselves — assistive technology items, and home modifications. The OT time to assess and prescribe them is billed separately from Improved Daily Living. |
| Core — Assistance with Social and Community Participation | A support worker to be there with you. Different from the therapy that builds the skill so you need less of that support — that part is Capacity Building. |
| Capacity Building — Finding and Keeping a Job | Work readiness and pre-vocational support, including School Leaver Employment Supports for recent school leavers. |
Unspent Capacity Building funding does not roll over to the next plan, and an untouched budget reads at review as evidence it wasn't needed. More on using it →
All of it by home visit, or in the community where that is where the difficulty actually shows.
The evidence the NDIS uses to decide what supports go into a plan. Detailed, readable, and written for the person making the decision.
Read moreGrab rails through to level-entry showers. Assessment, the report your funder needs, and working alongside the builder.
Read moreAssessment, trial, prescription and training for the equipment that makes daily life workable.
Read moreCooking, self-care, routines, shopping, transport. Skills that stay with you after the plan ends.
Read moreThe practical, daily-functioning layer alongside psychology and psychiatry. Routine, structure, energy, getting back to what matters.
Read moreUnderstanding sensory needs in everyday terms, and strategies that fit the environment you are actually in.
Read moreCommunity access, transport and travel training, and the confidence to take part in Peninsula life.
Read morePre-vocational skills, workplace assessments and reasonable adjustments, alongside DES and SLES providers.
Read moreSIL, SDA and independent living evidence — where someone lives, who they live with, and what support the arrangement actually needs.
Read moreThe 6 and 12-monthly report your planner or coordinator reads before a plan review. One week turnaround.
Read moreLook for Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living in your plan. If you are not sure, your plan manager or support coordinator can tell you the balance in a minute, and self-managed participants can see it in the my NDIS participant portal.
Tell us what is actually going wrong, what funding you have, your suburb, and any deadline — a plan review date, a discharge, equipment that has stopped working. That is enough for us to say whether we can help and roughly when.
You get the fees and scope in writing before anything starts. The first appointment is at your home, usually within one to two weeks.
Neither, if you are self-managed or plan-managed — those participants can engage any provider. NDIA-managed plans are the exception: they require an NDIS-registered provider, and we are not one.
Look for Capacity Building — Improved Daily Living in your plan. Your plan manager or support coordinator can confirm the balance; self-managed participants can see it in the my NDIS participant portal.
Yes. Allow six to eight weeks before the review date — one to two weeks to a first appointment, the assessment itself, one week for the report, then time for your coordinator or planner to read it. Progress and plan review reports →
Then it is a conversation for your next review, and functional evidence is what supports it. A support coordinator can help build that case. We can't add funding to a plan, and neither can anyone else outside the NDIA.
Yes, and most of our referrals come that way. The referrals page carries current capacity, wait time and report turnaround so they know before they refer.
No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. What a good report does is present the evidence clearly and honestly so the decision is made on an accurate picture of your situation.
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