Specialist behaviour support  ·  NDIS and private  ·  NSW & QLD  ·  Telehealth

Behaviour support that begins with the whole person.

A specialist behaviour support practice. NDIS positive behaviour support as part of Ladybug Therapeutic Collective, and private behaviour assessments and plan development outside the NDIS, with extensive experience across youth justice, forensic, school, and out of home care settings.

Trauma informed  ·  Neurodivergent affirming  ·  Person centred
Foundational Minds is part of Foundations First Group  ·  About the group
Our approach

Rigorous assessment. Structured process. A plan the team can actually run.

Behaviour support at Foundational Minds is a highly structured, evidence based process. Every plan is built on a high quality assessment, and every strategy is designed for the people who are actually there.

How we provide behaviour support
Person centred

The person, not the behaviour

We begin with the person: their strengths, history, sensory world, and what a good day actually looks like for them.

Trauma informed

Safety comes first

Behaviour makes sense in context. We work in ways that protect dignity, reduce distress, and never rely on control.

Neurodivergent affirming

Difference is not deficit

Support is designed to fit a neurodivergent person as they are, not a version of them that is easier to manage.

Family and team centred

Built to be used

Plans are written in plain language so the people around the person can follow them, every day, with confidence.

Services

How we can help.

Behaviour support across the full pathway, from first assessment to the everyday work of putting a plan into practice, inside the NDIS and outside it.

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Functional behaviour assessment

A careful, respectful assessment of what behaviour is communicating, grounded in the person's context rather than a checklist.

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Comprehensive behaviour support plans

Clear, usable plans built around strengths and prevention, with strategies a support team can follow consistently.

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Interim and early support

Timely interim strategies when a situation cannot wait, so the person and their team are not left without guidance.

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Implementation and team training

Hands on coaching and training so the plan is understood, owned, and delivered well by the people doing the work.

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Complex needs and restrictive practice

Considered support for complex presentations, with a clear focus on reducing and removing restrictive practices over time.

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Private behaviour assessments and plans

Outside the NDIS: behaviour assessments and plan development for schools, out of home care providers, youth justice and forensic settings, and families paying privately, to the same standard of assessment and the same plain language.

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Telehealth and regional outreach

Practical access for participants across New South Wales and Queensland, through telehealth and planned in person work.

About the practice

Clinical depth, held with humanity.

Foundational Minds was built on a simple belief: behaviour is communication. When we understand what a person is trying to tell us, support stops being about managing behaviour and starts being about meeting a need.

The practice works across NDIS, trauma informed care, and child and youth wellbeing in New South Wales and Queensland. The work is grounded in behaviour science and a decade of direct practice in under resourced communities.

It is written in plain language, because a plan no one can follow is not support. Every plan is designed to be read, understood, and used by the people who are actually there, on the ordinary days as much as the hard ones.

Foundational Minds delivers NDIS positive behaviour support as part of Ladybug Therapeutic Collective, and is a member of Behaviour Support Practitioners Australia.

Foundational Minds  ·  Foundations First Group

Foundational Minds sits under Foundations First Group.

Every part of the group shares one mission: high quality psychology and neuroscience, made accessible, and used to make real world change.

The principle

A mechanic who knows how a car works can make it go better. Knowing how our brains work is the same.

Foundations First Group uses that one principle across every venture: understand how the brain works, then use it to make things better for the people involved.

Our other work  ·  Foundations First Group

We want to make high quality psychology and neuroscience accessible to everyone.

This website is for Foundational Minds, our behaviour support practice. The practice is one part of Foundations First Group, a clinician led group working across psychosocial risk, program design, and the funding that delivers them. Behaviour support is where the group began. Around it sit gamified neuroscience for children, a program for young people doing it tough, tailored psychoeducation, and corporate consulting on psychosocial hazards, all carrying the same aim. This is the rest of that work.

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Gamified neuroscience for children

Daniel's Diaries™

Gamified neuroscience that teaches kids how their brains work: emotional regulation, attention, impulse, worry, and the rest of the settings that run a day, learned by playing rather than by being told. It is built around Daniel, a golden retriever, and one simple idea: your brain is a town, and you are the town planner.

For behaviour support it does the thing sessions cannot. It connects the practitioner to home and to the team outside of sessions, so families and support workers get the same plain language brain science the plan is built on, in the same words, between visits. It is built to sit alongside behaviour support: the Practitioner Hub turns the app's engagement data and your clinical input into a support plan, an NDIS recommendation letter, and a progress summary for the family.

For children, families, and support teams
danielsdiaries.com.au

Your brain is a town. You are the town planner.

7 Super SkillsWeekly check insParent dashboardMulti child support
Daniel the golden retriever, waving
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Program for young people

Pull Our Socks Up

posu. exists to end child sexual abuse in Australia, and to show what simple, unconditional acts can do for a young person along the way. Every month a disadvantaged young person gets a fresh pair of socks, no matter what: no conditions, no reward chart, no catch. It is a small act of unconditional support, and a psychological anchor, a fixed point in time that a young person can hold on to when everything else moves.

The sock pilot is three things in sequence. Six months of socks. A six week psychoeducation program on what anger, anxiety, and risk taking are doing in the brain. Then monthly mentoring after the six weeks, which wraps support around the young person and gives posu. longitudinal information on how they are going long after the program ends, rather than a snapshot at the finish.

Ending child sexual abuse · Six months of socks · Six weeks of psychoeducation · Monthly mentoring after
posusocks.com.au
The sock pilot

A pair of socks every month, no matter what.

Six months of socksMonths 1 to 6
Six week psychoeducation programWeeks 1 to 6
Monthly mentoring after the six weeksThen monthly
Ending child sexual abuseUnconditional supportA psychological anchorLongitudinal information
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Tailored to the cohort

Psychoeducation programs

Tailored psychoeducation programs for different cohorts: what the brain's alarm system is doing under anger, anxiety, and risk, and what to do about it, explained in words people can actually use. Programs exist for young people, including adolescent boys, and for the parents and carers around them. The founding six week series runs inside posu., and any program can be run by a service on its own.

Program development is a service in its own right. Schools, youth services, and organisations that need something specific, a cohort, a presentation, or a setting the existing programs do not cover, can have one built for them on the same science. The programs page shows three examples, each with a sample module you can open, exactly as a participant sees it.

Young people · Adolescent boys · Parents and carers · Built for your setting on request
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FFG Consulting · Corporate consulting on psychosocial hazards

Minds at Work

Minds at Work is FFG Consulting's corporate consulting program on psychosocial hazards. It measures psychosocial risk across seven domains, from job demands and role clarity to traumatic content and lone work, has a clinician interpret where the strain actually concentrates, trains leaders, supervisors, and frontline teams on what the measurement found, and documents the review cycle, so an organisation can show it is managing psychosocial hazards rather than naming them.

It is also how the group funds its own not for profit work. Minds at Work is the commercial arm, and its engagements are designed to underwrite the posu. sock pilot and the programs around it, so the same work that makes a workplace safer helps keep a pair of socks arriving for a young person every month.

For employers, leaders, and teams · Seven psychosocial domains · A survey every quarter · Funds the group's not for profit work
ffgconsulting.org
Risk profile · Quarter 3 · Sample

Where strain concentrates, and what the training should be about.

Job demands, workload and work paceHigh
Role clarity, control and job securityModerate
Support from leaders, supervisors and peersElevated
Recognition, reward and organisational justiceModerate
Exposure to conflict, aggression and occupational violenceLow
Traumatic content and emotionally demanding workElevated
Physical environment, isolation and remote or lone workLow
Quarterly surveyClinical interpretationTraining built on the findingsCompliance record

Foundations First Group works with organisations, services, and communities across Australia. About Foundations First Group    ffgconsulting.org

Contact  ·  Make a referral

Let's start a conversation.

Send the referral form, or share a little about the person and what is happening below. The intake team will be in contact within 48 hours to discuss the referral and advise of any current waitlist times.

Referral form

Download the referral form

Complete what you can and send it to intake@foundationalminds.com.au, or call 0402 568 661 to talk it through first. A partial referral is better than a delayed one.

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Sending a referral does not guarantee immediate service. The intake team will be in contact within 48 hours to discuss the referral and advise of any current waitlist times.

Email
intake@foundationalminds.com.au
Phone
0402 568 661
Service area
New South Wales and Queensland · Telehealth Australia wide
Who can refer
Participants, families, support coordinators, carers, and allied health colleagues are all welcome to get in touch.
Practising as part of
Ladybug Therapeutic Collective · Member of Behaviour Support Practitioners Australia
ABN
46 683 194 569

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