Registered NDIS Psychology Services

No. Maple Community Services doesn’t employ psychologists or deliver therapy. We implement the psychology and behaviour support plans your practitioner writes, which our team of experts then oversee.

Yes. Our Support Coordination team can help you find a psychologist or behaviour support practitioner. Once your plan is in place, we’ll put it into practice.

Your behaviour support practitioner writes your plan (often called a psychology support plan or BSP) and trains our support workers on it, so everyone uses the same strategies. We keep your team consistent, follow the plan every day, and share what’s working with your practitioner so the plan keeps up with your goals.

Because we answer quickly, we take complex referrals, and we do the heavy lifting on funding checks, risk and documentation. Reports arrive before the reassessment, not after it.

Yes. Send us your plan, and we will walk through it with you, show you which budget covers psychology, and tell you honestly if the funding is not there yet.

NDIS psychology services are psychological supports funded through an NDIS plan, delivered by a registered psychologist, and implemented by service providers. They address the emotional, cognitive and behavioural barriers created by a disability, such as emotional regulation, routines and community participation, rather than treating a mental health condition clinically.

Yes. The NDIS funds psychology as a capacity-building support, usually from Capacity Building: Improved Daily Living. It funds work on the functional impact of disability. Diagnosis and clinical treatment of a mental health condition remain the responsibility of the health system.

In most plans, psychology is funded from Capacity Building: Improved Daily Living. If that funding is allocated to a specific support or has been used up, unallocated Core Supports funding can sometimes be used instead. Your plan manager or Support Coordinator can confirm what your plan holds.

Yes, because they fund different things. Medicare’s Better Access program subsidises a limited number of sessions to treat a mental health condition, usually with a gap fee. NDIS psychology funds capacity building linked to your disability and is not capped at a set number of sessions while funding lasts.

Generally no. Diagnostic assessment is treated as a health system responsibility rather than a disability support. The NDIS may fund functional assessments that describe how a disability affects daily life and inform your plan.

Raise it at your next plan reassessment with evidence linking the psychology need to the functional impact of your disability and to your plan goals. A support coordinator or allied health report written in functional terms gives the request its strongest footing.