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What Is a Psychosocial Recovery Coach?
A psychosocial recovery coach is an NDIS-funded worker with mental health knowledge who works with participants who have a psychosocial disability. They help you build capacity and resilience, find, plan and organise supports, link up with health and community services, and stay connected to your supports through times when you need more help.
A recovery coach isn't a therapist and doesn't treat mental illness. The NDIA says the aim is more choice and control, connection to community and job opportunities. You can choose a coach with lived experience of mental ill health and recovery.
Recovery coaching is funded from the capacity building budget of an NDIS plan, and the NDIA generally includes it for people with psychosocial support needs. Our guide to recovery coaching in the NDIS explains how it works.
How it works
Three Steps to Talking With a Provider
Tell Us What You'd Like Help With
Who it's for, what's in the NDIS plan, in person or online, and when. About two minutes, and no medical details.
We Find a Provider
We pass your details to one registered NDIS provider of recovery coaching who may have a coach that suits.
They Get in Touch
The provider contacts you to talk about their coaches, how they work and when you could start.
Your details only go to the provider we match you with. If they can't help, we'll find someone who can. More about how it works
What a Recovery Coach Helps With
The NDIS describes recovery as living a purposeful and meaningful life. A recovery coach works alongside you on the practical parts of that.
Planning What You Want
Working out what matters to you, and finding, planning and organising the supports to get there.
Keeping Services Connected
Linking you with health, mental health and community services, and keeping them working together.
In Person or Online
Coaching can happen face to face, by phone or by video, depending on the provider and what suits you.
Recovery Coaching Explained
Plain-English guides, checked against the NDIA's own pages, guidelines and pricing schedule.
- What is a recovery coach?Who it's for, what it's for, and what it isn't.
- What a recovery coach doesPlanning, coaching, organising supports and linking services.
- Recovery coaching in the NDISWhich budget, how hours are set, and the request for service.
- Price guide 2026-27The NDIS hourly price limits, and what else is charged.
- Psychosocial disabilityWhat it means, and how it differs from a diagnosis.
- Recovery coach vs support coordinatorThe differences, and why the NDIA usually suggests one.
About Your Life, Not a Diagnosis
The NDIA says a recovery coach aims to increase your choice and control, your connection to community and your job opportunities.
Connection With Community
Getting out, joining in and spending time with people, the way you want to.
Work, Study or Volunteering
Increasing job opportunities is one of the aims the NDIS lists for recovery coaching.
Choice and Control
Your goals, your pace and your decisions, with someone alongside you.
For Participants and Families
Recovery coaching just added to the plan, moving from support coordination, or the current coach isn't working out? Tell us once and we'll pass it to a registered provider, instead of you ringing around.
Get matchedFor Support Coordinators and LACs
Send the funding status, plan management, location and preferences. We pass it to a registered recovery coaching provider and let you know who's picking it up.
Refer a participantHow We Choose Providers
We only pass your details to providers who meet all of these.
- Registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
- Recovery coaches who meet the NDIS qualification or experience requirements
- Able to work in your area, or online
- Agree to contact you promptly, and we check that they did
How Recovery Coaching Is Funded
Recovery coaching sits in the capacity building budget of an NDIS plan. Your NDIA planner works out the hours with you, and providers charge up to the NDIS price limit for each hour. In 2026-27 that's $110.44 an hour on weekdays during the day in most of Australia.
See the price guideQuestions People Ask
Does it cost anything to use this service?
No. It's free for you. Providers pay us when we introduce them to someone, which is how we keep it free. It doesn't change what's charged to your plan, which is capped by the NDIS price limits.
Are you the NDIS, or a recovery coaching provider?
Neither. psychosocialrecoverycoach.com.au is an independent service that connects people with registered NDIS providers of recovery coaching. We're not part of the NDIA or the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and we don't employ coaches.
Is this a mental health or crisis service?
No. We don't give clinical advice or crisis support. If you need help right now, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or 000 if life is in danger.
Do I need recovery coaching in my NDIS plan first?
It helps, because a provider is paid from the recovery coaching funding in your plan. If you're applying, or it isn't in your plan yet, get in touch anyway and tell us where things are at.
Can I ask for a coach with lived experience?
Yes. The form asks. The NDIA says you can choose a recovery coach with lived experience of mental ill health and recovery.
What if the provider isn't the right fit?
We pass your details to another registered provider, one at a time, up to three in total. Your details never go out to a group of providers at once.
Ready to Find a Recovery Coach?
It takes about two minutes, and it's free.