What is Psychosocial Recovery Coaching

Psychosocial recovery coaching can support you with your recovery and is funded through your NDIS plan.

Recovery means being able to live a purposeful and meaningful life.

Psychosocial
Recovery Coaching

What is Psychosocial Recovery Coaching?

Psychosocial recovery coaching can support you with your recovery and is funded through your NDIS plan. Recovery means being able to live a purposeful and meaningful life. At Wellspace Australia we have a specialised and experienced team of Recovery Coaches with capacity to support you in your recovery.

What is Recovery?

Recovery can mean different things to different people, however, for many, recovery is about reaching goals, and the development of relationships and skills that support a positive life, with or without ongoing mental health symptoms.

The NDIA defines recovery as:

Achieving an optimal state of personal, social and emotional wellbeing
Being able to live a purposeful and meaningful life

What is a Recovery Coach?

Recovery Coaches are NDIS-funded workers who have mental health knowledge and experience to support participants in taking more control of their lives and to better manage the complex challenges of day-to-day living. Recovery coaches will work collaboratively with participants, their families, carers, and other services to design, plan and implement a recovery plan, and assist with the coordination of NDIS and other supports.

A Peer recovery coach is someone who also has lived experience of mental illness and recovery.

Recovery Coaches should have:

A minimum of Certificate IV in Mental Health or Mental Health Peer Work or similar training

and/or two years’ paid experience in supporting people with mental health issues.
Some recovery coaches may have other qualifications.

What do Recovery Coaches do?

Teach participants how to implement the key concepts of recovery (hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support) in their day-to-day lives

Help participants organise a list of their wellness tools -activities they can use to help themselves feel better when they are experiencing mental health difficulties and to prevent these difficulties from arising
Help participants identify their values and strengths and work towards a picture of the future
Assist each participant in creating a recovery and safety plan that guides the involvement of family members or supporters when the participant becomes unwell
Help each participant develop a tailored post-crisis plan to help the person return to wellness