How to Find a Psychosocial Recovery Coach Near You
Start with what's in your NDIS plan, then talk to two or more recovery coaching providers before you choose, as the NDIA suggests. Your support coordinator or my NDIS contact can help, you can search the NDIS provider finder, or you can tell us what you need and we'll pass it to a registered provider, one at a time. Coaching can be in person or online.
Where Can You Look for a Recovery Coach?
Your NDIS contacts, the NDIS provider finder, your own search, or a matching service like this one.
- Your NDIA planner, local area coordinator, support coordinator or my NDIS contact. The NDIA says they can help find you a recovery coach
- The NDIS provider finder, which searches by location and registration group
- The NDIS Commission's provider register, to check a provider you've found is registered
- People you trust, including your treating team, family or peer groups
- This service: answer a few questions and we pass them to one registered provider at a time
What Should You Have Ready?
Your plan, a rough idea of what you'd like help with, and any preferences about the coach.
- Whether recovery coaching is funded in your plan, and how many hours
- How the plan is managed: by the NDIA, a plan manager, or yourself
- What you'd like help with, in your own words. It doesn't need to be detailed
- Whether you'd like a coach with lived experience
- Whether you'd prefer to meet in person, online or both, and roughly where
- When your plan starts, or when you'd like to begin
Looking for a Recovery Coach?
We'll connect you with a registered provider of psychosocial recovery coaching, in person or online.
Can a Recovery Coach Work With You Online?
Some providers offer coaching by phone or video. Ask, and agree it in your service agreement.
Online coaching can widen your choice if there are few providers nearby. Some things may suit in-person time better, like going with you to an appointment or helping you get to know a community service, so you might mix the two. Remote and very remote areas have higher NDIS price limits for recovery coaching.
What Happens Once You Choose a Provider?
A request for service if it's a new plan, then a service agreement and your first session.
On a new plan, your NDIA planner sends the provider a request for service, and they have 4 days to accept. The NDIA recommends a written service agreement setting out the supports, costs, cancellation terms and how you'll work together. Our guide to your first session with a recovery coach covers what to expect.
Questions People Ask
How do I find a recovery coach near me?
Ask your support coordinator or my NDIS contact, search the NDIS provider finder by postcode, or tell us what you need and we'll pass it to a registered provider that may suit.
Do you cover my area?
We take enquiries from every state and territory, for in-person and online recovery coaching. Put your postcode in the form.
Can I find a recovery coach if I'm not on the NDIS yet?
Recovery coaching is an NDIS support, so it's funded once you're a participant with it in your plan. If you're applying, tell us where things are at, and see our page on psychosocial disability and the NDIS.
What if I don't get along with my coach?
You can change. Talk to the provider about a different coach, or change provider. Our guide to changing recovery coach explains how.
Keep Reading
- Choosing a recovery coachHow to choose a psychosocial recovery coach: the NDIA's five questions, lived experience, qualifications, registration, and what to agree before you start.
- Your first sessionWhat to expect from a first session with a psychosocial recovery coach: getting to know you, your plan and goals, the service agreement, and what to bring.
- Recovery coaching in the NDISHow NDIS recovery coaching works: which budget it comes from, how hours are set, the request for service, self, plan or agency managed, and getting started.
- Recovery coach qualificationsThe qualifications and experience the NDIS requires of a psychosocial recovery coach, what lived experience means, and how to check a coach and provider.
- How we choose providersThe checks every provider has to pass before we connect them with anyone.
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