Positive Behaviour Support
Meet the team behind Positive Behaviour Support at Train Me Consulting
We’re intentional about how we practise, and relational in how we work with people. Those two things shape almost everything else here, so it’s worth explaining what they actually mean before we get into what we do.
We start with why, not what
A behaviour that looks difficult or unsafe is almost always meeting a need the person has no other way to meet. So before we write anything, we try to understand what’s actually going on for them, drawing on neuroscience and psychology to make sense of it. Brain function, trauma, sensory processing, the environment they’re in day to day. Behaviour is what you can see. These are usually what’s underneath it.
We know that takes longer than reacting to a behaviour as it happens. We think it’s worth it, because the results hold up over time rather than needing constant management.
A lot of behaviour support gets written to a formula, and you can usually tell. We don’t do that. Every plan we write is built around the person, their history, and the people who’ll actually be using it day to day, a family member, a support worker, a teacher. If a plan doesn’t make sense to the person delivering it on shift, it doesn’t matter how clinically sound it looks on paper
Who's doing the work
Our practitioners come from allied health backgrounds, and a lot of us have training specifically in neuroscience or neuropsychology. Where someone hasn’t come through that exact pathway, we look for the clinical depth that gets them to the same place.
We’re a small, niche provider, and that’s deliberate. We’d rather build real specialist skill across a tighter team than spread ourselves thin trying to be everything to everyone. Our practitioners get proper supervision, not a box-ticking version of it, and time to sit with other clinicians and actually think through hard cases together. When something needs more than one clinical lens, we bring in the rest of our multidisciplinary team.
The sector’s under a lot more scrutiny than it used to be, and we think that’s a reasonable thing to expect. We’ve always worked this way, so it hasn’t meant scrambling to catch up. It’s part of why complex referrals, the ones other providers have found too hard, tend to work here.
What we do
- Functional behaviour assessment
- Behaviour support plans that meet NDIS Commission requirements and hold up in real life
- Reducing restrictive practices, with a genuine plan to remove them where that’s possible
- Building skills that give the person real alternatives to the behaviour
- Training and coaching for families, support workers and support teams
Who we work with
We take on complex support needs, including situations where an earlier behaviour support plan hasn’t worked. That includes people with:
- Disability and complex behaviours of concern
- A recent transition from hospital back into the community
- Department for Child Protection involvement
- Restrictive practices currently in place
If someone else has found a person difficult to support, we’d like to hear about it. That’s exactly the kind of referral we exist for.
Growing our team the way we grow a plan
We treat our own team the same way we treat a client’s support, build it properly, back it with real supervision, and let people grow into more responsibility over time. Practitioners here often move from Proficient toward Advanced practice with genuine mentoring alongside them, and for those with an allied health background, there’s a real path into deeper Positive Behaviour Support specialisation down the track. If you’re a Specialist practitioner thinking about leading a practice, we’d genuinely like to talk.
How to get in touch
Referrals come from hospitals, government agencies, support coordinators, families, and people reaching out for themselves. You don’t need a form filled out to start, a phone call or an email is enough for us to work out whether we’re the right fit.
From there:
- We talk it through and work out whether we can help
- We meet the person and speak with the people who know them
- We complete the functional behaviour assessment
- We build the plan and work alongside the team to put it into practice
- We review it and adjust as things change
We work across Adelaide and metropolitan South Australia. If you’re outside that area, get in touch anyway, we’ll let you know what we can do.
