At Common Ground, we provide Occupational Therapy and Positive Behaviour Support for people with disability, neurodivergence and mental health challenges. Our support is person-centred, practical and grounded in what matters to you not simply a diagnosis, a behaviour or a list of things you find difficult.
We work alongside adults and young people whose needs are often described as complex and we take the time to understand the person behind the diagnosis or the behaviour.
Everyday skills, routines, equipment and environments that make daily life work.
Evidence for NDIS plan reviews, housing decisions and support needs.
Understanding behaviour, reducing restrictive practices, changing environments.
Psychosocial recovery-focused OT for people living with mental illness.
Clinical supervision for occupational therapists and PBS practitioners.
Therapy
Occupation means anything that occupies your time and matters to you cooking dinner, catching the bus, holding down a job, keeping a house liveable, being a parent. When those things become hard, we work out why, and we build a practical way forward.
Sessions happen where life happens: at home, in the community, at work, or by telehealth. Progress is measured against the goals you set, not a standard template.
Commonly includes
Assessment & reports
A functional capacity assessment describes what a person can do independently, what they need help with, and what support would make a real difference. It is the evidence the NDIA relies on when deciding what goes into a plan.
We use standardised assessment tools alongside observation in the person’s own environment and conversations with the people who know them best. Reports are written clearly, referenced properly, and delivered in time for your plan dates.
Report types
Therapy Behaviour support
Behaviour is communication. Before anything else, we work out what a behaviour is achieving for the person what need it is meeting, what it is avoiding, what it is asking for. Then we change the things around them so the need can be met another way.
Our practitioners work with families, support workers and accommodation providers, because a behaviour support plan is only as good as the people putting it into practice every day.
What is involved
Recovery focused
Psychosocial disability affects the ordinary business of living far more than it affects a diagnosis on paper. Our work here is recovery-oriented: building the structure, confidence and connections that make a week feel manageable.
This is the area our practice was built around, and it shapes how we work across every other service we offer.
Where we focus
For practitioners
Good therapists are made, not hired. We offer supervision and mentoring for occupational therapists and behaviour support practitioners — particularly those working in mental health, psychosocial disability and complex behaviour.
Sessions are structured around real caseloads: reasoning, reporting, professional boundaries, and the parts of the work that are hard to carry alone.
Suited to
We work with NDIS participants across all three plan management types, and with people paying privately.
Our fees follow the current NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits. Before any work begins we provide a written service agreement setting out what we will do, how many hours it is likely to take, and exactly what it will cost. No surprises.
Ways to fund your support
| Self-managed | You pay our invoice and claim it back through the NDIS portal. |
| Plan-managed | We invoice your plan manager directly. Nothing for you to do. |
| Agency-managed | We claim through the NDIS myplace provider portal. |
| Private | Invoiced directly, payable on receipt. |
Some private health funds offer occupational therapy rebates check
with your insurer.
If yours is not here, ask us directly we would rather answer it properly.
Availability changes, so the honest answer is that we will tell you the day you ask. We respond to every referral within one business day with our current wait time. If we cannot help quickly, we will say so rather than leave you sitting on a list.
We are a mobile practice. Most sessions happen in the person’s home or community, because that is where the skills we are working on actually get used. We also offer telehealth where it suits, and we can meet at a school, workplace or accommodation setting when that makes sense.
No. Anyone can contact us directly — participants, family members, support coordinators, psychologists or GPs. You do not need a diagnosis to start a conversation. What matters is whether occupational therapy or behaviour support is likely to help, and we can work that out together.
Typically two to three appointments, followed by report writing. From first appointment to finished report, allow around four to six weeks. If you have a plan review date approaching, tell us when you make the referral and we will work backwards from it.
Mostly listening. We want to understand what a normal week looks like, what is working, what is not, and what you would like to be different. You are welcome to have a support person with you. Nothing is decided in that first hour except where we start.
Occupational therapy and positive behaviour support across Adelaide, built on unhurried relationships and clinical quality.
A home. A job. A friend.
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We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the Traditional Custodians of the Adelaide Plains, where we live and work, and pay our respects to Elders past and present. Common Ground is a safe place for people of every culture, ability, gender and sexuality.
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