Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners in Perth & WA
Meet the Behaviour Bridge practitioners supporting participants, families, support coordinators and care teams across the Perth metropolitan area and the South West. Behaviour Bridge is a registered NDIS provider and works as a mobile clinic — sessions take place in the home, school and community rather than a consulting room.
Perth practitioners and who they work best with
Amy Coulter, Natalija O’Connell and Rhea Williams currently have capacity for new Perth referrals. Matching a participant to the right practitioner matters more than filling the next available slot.
New to Positive Behaviour Support? Read our plain-English PBS Perth guide to understand how the service works before choosing a practitioner.
Amy Coulter
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner | Northern Corridor
Amy brings a warm, practical and evidence-informed approach to Positive Behaviour Support. She holds a Master of Clinical Psychology and a Bachelor of Psychology, with more than three years’ experience supporting children with autism and developmental delay.
Based in Perth’s Northern Corridor, Amy supports participants and their teams across Wanneroo, Joondalup, Butler, Clarkson, Landsdale and surrounding northern suburbs. She is a strong fit for referrals involving children and young people who need consistent, practical support across home, school and community settings.
Amy works alongside families, educators, support workers and multidisciplinary teams to turn behaviour support strategies into everyday routines. Her experience includes implementing behaviour support plans, completing functional behaviour assessments and task analyses, using data to monitor progress, and supporting functional communication and reinforcement approaches that are meaningful in real life.
Referrers can expect a patient, collaborative and strengths-based approach. Amy focuses on helping the people around a participant feel clear and confident about what to do, with strategies grounded in dignity, practical fit and least-restrictive support.
- Qualifications: Master of Clinical Psychology | Bachelor of Psychology | Level 2 Early Years Practitioner | Registered Behaviour Technician Training
- Registration: NDIS Registered Core Behaviour Support Practitioner
- Previous Experience: Key Worker / Behaviour Therapist | Senior Behaviour Therapist | Administrator | Eating Disorder Support Group Facilitator
- Service Areas: Clarkson, Joondalup, Yanchep and Ellenbrook
Best fit for: Children and young people with autism or developmental delay who need consistent, practical support across home, school and community — and families, educators and support workers who want coaching so strategies carry through between sessions.
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Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner | Swanbourne & Western Suburbs
Natalija is a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner with experience supporting people with complex behavioural and psychosocial support needs. Her professional background includes work within the justice system and psychosocial disability support, giving her a strong understanding of how behaviour can be influenced by environment, experience, relationships and wider support systems.
She takes a person-centred, practical approach and focuses on understanding what behaviour is communicating rather than simply trying to stop it. Natalija works collaboratively with participants, families and support teams to develop strategies that promote independence, quality of life and meaningful participation in everyday life.
Her experience includes complex presentations, supporting the reduction of restrictive practices, and developing strategies that prioritise dignity, autonomy and human rights. She has a strong interest in neurodevelopmental disability and continues professional development in this area.
- Experience: Justice system | Psychosocial disability support | Complex behavioural presentations | Restrictive-practice reduction
- Service Areas: Swanbourne, City Beach, Floreat, Wembley Downs, Scarborough, Trigg, Karrinyup, Gwelup, North Beach, Doubleview, Claremont and Cottesloe, subject to location, current capacity and practitioner fit.
- Current Capacity: 8 participant places. Updated manually as referrals are accepted.
Best fit for: Participants with complex behavioural or psychosocial support needs, and families or teams seeking practical, collaborative support that can be used in everyday settings.
View Natalija’s Profile & Availability
Rhea Williams
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner | Perth Metro & South West
Rhea brings a justice-informed lens to Positive Behaviour Support, shaped by a Bachelor and Master of Criminology and around six years working across justice sector behaviour change programs and NDIS therapeutic and capacity-building supports. Where a behaviour looks like the problem on the surface, Rhea looks for what it is doing for the person: the function, the environment, and the risk factors sitting underneath it. Rhea is careful to separate the behaviour from the person, and works from the belief that lasting change comes from understanding someone fully, not just managing what they do.
As a Program Facilitator for therapeutic offending programs delivered in prison, Rhea worked directly with complex and high-risk behaviour, giving her a depth of experience with high-complexity presentations that most PBS practitioners have not had to build. She works primarily with people with autism and psychosocial disabilities, and brings the same educational, supportive and warm approach to every person she works with, whatever the complexity of their presentation. Her plans are built to be realistically implementable, not just technically correct: something support workers, families and other services can actually pick up and use.
- Qualifications: Bachelor of Criminology | Master of Criminology | Diploma of Counselling (in progress)
- Registration: NDIS Registered Core Behaviour Support Practitioner
- Previous Experience: Program Facilitator, Therapeutic Offending Programs | NDIS Therapeutic Supports | Capacity-Building Supports
- Service Areas: Perth Metro and the South West, including Dunsborough, Busselton, Yallingup and surrounds
Best fit for: Adults and young people with autism or psychosocial disability, high-complexity or high-risk presentations including justice-involved participants, and teams who need a plan support workers can realistically pick up and use.
Submit a Referral with RheaAreas we support across Perth and WA
- Northern corridor — Wanneroo, Joondalup, Butler, Clarkson, Landsdale and surrounding northern suburbs
- Perth metro — including Stirling, Balcatta, Morley, Noranda, Inglewood, Mount Lawley, Leederville, Northbridge, Subiaco, West Perth, East Perth, South Perth, Victoria Park, Bayswater, Osborne Park and Fremantle
- Western Suburbs and coastal north-west — Swanbourne, City Beach, Floreat, Wembley Downs, Scarborough, Trigg, Karrinyup, Gwelup, North Beach, Doubleview, Claremont and Cottesloe, with Natalija O’Connell
- South West — Dunsborough, Busselton, Yallingup and surrounds
If you are not sure whether your area is covered, get in touch — there is some flexibility.
Positive Behaviour Support services
Support that works beyond the written plan. A Behaviour Support Plan is only useful when it changes how daily life actually feels — at home, at school and in the community.
Assessment and planning
Functional Behaviour Assessments, Interim Behaviour Support Plans and comprehensive Behaviour Support Plans. Assessment looks at the patterns, environments, communication and unmet needs behind behaviours of concern, rather than treating the behaviour in isolation.
Implementation and coaching
Practical support for families, educators, support workers and other stakeholders to put strategies into practice, so they are applied consistently between sessions.
Review and ongoing support
Plan review, monitoring, liaison with treating teams, and restrictive practice support where relevant.
Start Positive Behaviour Support in Perth
Behaviour Bridge works alongside support coordinators, families and care teams from referral through to plan review, with clear communication about progress and timeframes. Plans are generally released within approximately three months of engagement, but the focus stays on implementation: a plan is far more useful when the people around a participant feel confident putting it into practice.
Referrals can be submitted through the NDIS referral form, or contact the team directly on 0414 632 350 or julianne@behaviourbridge.com.au.
Western Suburbs availability: Natalija O’Connell currently has eight new participant places. View Natalija’s Swanbourne page and check current availability.
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