More therapy, more often, from the same budget.
Our allied health assistants deliver high-frequency, real-world therapy under the design and supervision of our senior clinicians, so you get more goal-directed practice from the same plan. And our team is not what you might expect: it includes a psychology graduate and lived-experience peer practitioner, working under our senior speech pathologists and occupational therapists. Broad skill, deliberately over-qualified.
More good therapy, not cheaper therapy.
An allied health assistant extends a clinician's reach. The clinician owns the thinking; the assistant delivers the practice, far more often than a clinician alone could, in the places life actually happens.
Talk to us about the AHA modelThe ecosystem comes before the therapy.
We do not just do therapy. Before a single session, we look at the whole system around you. If you need a key worker, a transdisciplinary plan, or help with your NDIS supports, we sort that first. We will not start therapy on someone with no ecosystem around them, even an adult. Once the foundation is steady, the therapy actually works.
We put the key-worker hat on
Every clinician here is a trained Key Worker. We coordinate the whole team so you are not managing seven separate experts.
We stabilise first
Consults, supports, an NDIS consult if it is needed. We get the person steady before we build skills.
Goals built with you, not for you
Functional goals in your own words, tied to the life you actually want to live.
Where your feet are
Home, school, the cafe, the workplace, the community, or telehealth. A board that works in the clinic but not at the shop is not good enough.
Transdisciplinary by default
Speech and occupational therapy are not siloed. We share strategies across the team so the plan is one plan.
We will always find a way
If the usual path does not fit, we turn left. Creative is how we are wired, because we are neurodivergent too.
An assistant model done properly.
Done badly, assistant models cut corners. Done well, they are clinical gold. Here is how we do it.
Talk to us about the AHA modelOur team includes a psychology graduate and lived-experience peer practitioner, deliberately over-qualified for the role.
Delegation is task-specific. The assistant does exactly what the clinician designed and approved, nothing more.
Supervision is non-negotiable, with structured notes and a real review cadence.
Goals are participant-centred and built into real interests, not compliance drills.
It is a clinical model, not a cost-cutting one. The point is more good therapy.
It happens in the community, where the practice actually needs to happen.
More practice, in real life.
An assistant working two or three times a week in the community, under a well-built program, can give more hours of goal-directed practice than clinical sessions alone ever could. That is what moves the needle: repetition in the real world, where your feet are. And if the usual path does not fit, we will always find a way. We get creative, we pivot, and there is always a way.
Who the AHA model is for.
Support Coordinators
More therapy hours from the same plan, clinician-designed and supervised. A smart, defensible way to make a budget go further.
Families
More support for your child, more often, from the same budget, with a clinician always behind the plan.
Adults with chronic disability
A consistent, trusted presence that keeps your therapy programs alive between clinical reviews.
From first hello to more therapy hours.
No mystery, no pressure. Here is the path.
A free conversation
We talk through goals, the plan and whether the assistant model fits.
The clinician assesses and designs
A senior clinician sets the goals and writes the program.
We set up supervision and delegation
Clear, task-specific delegation and a supervision plan.
Practice in real life
The assistant delivers high-frequency, goal-directed practice where life happens.
Review and adjust
The clinician reviews progress and updates the program.
How NDIS funding works for the AHA model.
The whole point of this model is to make your plan go further, honestly and within the rules. We never bill you to navigate the NDIS.
NDIS funding may cover therapy assistant supports where it aligns with the participant's goals and approved plan. Not all NDIS plans include these supports.
The higher therapy assistant rate. With a psychology graduate and lived-experience peer practitioner delivering the program, the skill is worth it, and it still stretches a plan into more hours of real-world practice. Confirmed in writing.
- Clinician-designed and supervised, always
- More goal-directed hours from the same budget
- Delivered where life happens, billed in line with the price guide
- We never charge you to help you understand the NDIS
Rate shown follows the official NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits for therapy supports and may change when the guide is updated. We confirm current rates with you in writing before any work begins.
Talk to us about the AHA model
Clinical backbone. Human heart.
We are a neurodivergence-affirming team, and we are genuinely like family. Every clinician is a trained Key Worker before they ever work here, so the person in front of you sees the whole picture, not just their discipline. Behind every person we support is the whole team: quarterly whole-team case conferences, fortnightly clinical case conferences across disciplines, an internal NDIS specialist we meet with every week, and individual clinical supervision. That is what makes us different, and it is why people stay with us for years.
Frequently asked
Talk to us about the AHA model, or ask us anything.
Tell us a little about the participant and their goals. We will reply with next steps, usually within one business day.
- Prefer email? Reach us at admin@thecenteredspace.au
- Support Coordinator or referrer? Download the AHA model guide (PDF)
- Want to stretch a plan further? Ask us how the model could fit.
- In person across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Northern New South Wales, plus home, community and Australia-wide telehealth.