NDIS Counselling & Therapeutic Support

NDIS counselling and therapeutic support gives participants funded, one-on-one access to a psychotherapist for the mental health and emotional challenges that come with disability, whether that’s anxiety, low mood, trauma, or simply needing somewhere steady to talk things through. It’s for NDIS participants with self-managed or plan-managed funding for therapeutic supports, and for their families, who are just as welcome in the conversation when that’s useful. Sessions can happen in the Adelaide practice, online, or at home — whichever makes it easiest for you to actually get the support.

Support that comes to you

For a lot of participants, the biggest barrier to counselling isn’t wanting help, it’s getting to it — transport that has to be arranged, unfamiliar places that take energy to manage, or a routine that’s already stretched thin. A home visit removes a lot of that. Sessions happen in a space that’s already familiar, without the extra layer of getting somewhere new, finding parking, or sitting in an unfamiliar waiting room before you’ve even started talking. Families are welcome to be part of sessions where that helps, whether that’s a parent supporting a young person, or a partner or carer who’s part of the picture. The goal is support that fits around your life, not the other way around.

How NDIS-funded counselling works

Anderson Counselling works with self-managed and plan-managed NDIS participants using funding allocated to therapeutic supports or improved daily living. If your plan is agency-managed, you’ll need a registered NDIS provider for funded sessions, which this practice isn’t — it’s worth checking your plan management type before booking so funding lines up cleanly. Once that’s sorted, sessions run just like any other counselling: evidence-based approaches tailored to what you’re dealing with, whether that’s anxiety, depression, trauma, or the emotional weight that can come with navigating disability day to day. Itemised invoices are provided so claiming through your plan is straightforward.

What a session with Olga looks like

A first session runs for about fifty minutes and starts with an unhurried conversation about what support would actually help, at whatever pace and in whatever location works best for you — the practice, video, or your home. Olga adjusts pace and communication style to what you need, and there’s no expectation you’ll arrive with a clinical explanation of what’s wrong. From there, sessions are typically fortnightly, reviewed regularly against what your plan funds and what’s actually helping, so support stays useful rather than becoming another appointment to manage.

Olga’s experience

Dr. Olga Anderson is a PhD-qualified counsellor and psychotherapist and an ACA member who works with NDIS participants across a range of needs, from anxiety and low mood through to trauma, offering sessions in the format that actually works for each person — including in their own home. She brings the same warmth and lack of judgement to every session, whether it’s held in the practice, over video, or at your kitchen table. If getting to appointments has been part of what’s kept you from support, that’s exactly the kind of barrier this is designed to remove.