Recovery Coaching Guides
Plain-English guides to psychosocial recovery coaching and psychosocial disability in the NDIS, for participants, families and support coordinators. Each one is checked against the NDIA's own pages and guidelines, the NDIS pricing schedule and the NDIS Commission, and links to them.
Recovery Coaching Explained
- What is a recovery coach?A psychosocial recovery coach is an NDIS-funded worker with mental health knowledge who helps you plan, build skills and coordinate supports. How it works.
- What a recovery coach doesWhat a psychosocial recovery coach does day to day: planning, coaching, organising supports and linking you with mental health services. What they don't do.
- 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.
- What is psychosocial disability?What psychosocial disability means, how it differs from a mental health diagnosis, examples of how it can affect daily life, and how the NDIS describes it.
- Psychosocial disability and the NDISCan you get the NDIS for mental health? How the NDIA decides eligibility for psychosocial disability, the evidence it needs, and what it does and doesn't fund.
- Recovery coach vs support coordinatorPsychosocial recovery coach vs support coordinator: what each does, qualifications, NDIS prices, and why the NDIA usually recommends one, not both. Compared.
- Recovery coach price guideNDIS price limits for psychosocial recovery coaching in 2026-27: hourly maximums by time of day and remoteness, what else is charged, and who they apply to.
- 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.
- Finding a recovery coachHow to find a psychosocial recovery coach near you or online: where to look, what to have ready, and how to get matched with a registered NDIS provider.
Step-by-Step Guides
- 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.
- Getting recovery coaching in your planHow to get a psychosocial recovery coach in your NDIS plan: at planning, through a plan change, the evidence that helps, and what to do if the answer is no.
- Evidence of psychosocial disability formThe NDIS evidence of psychosocial disability form explained: who can fill it in, what it must cover, functional assessments, and what happens after you apply.
- Changing recovery coachHow to change your psychosocial recovery coach or provider: talking to them first, notice periods, lining up a new provider, and updating the NDIS portal.
- For families and carersFor families and carers: how a recovery coach can work with you, getting NDIS support for someone with psychosocial disability, and where to get help yourself.
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