Meet Kelsey

Kelsey is a Behaviour Support Practitioner with extensive experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults with complex behavioural, emotional, and psychosocial needs. She is passionate about delivering person-centred, trauma-informed, and evidence-based behaviour support that improves quality of life and promotes meaningful outcomes for the people she works with. Kelsey takes pride in building strong, professional relationships with participants, families, support teams, and stakeholders to create support that is both practical and effective.

She has experience working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, intellectual disability, mental health complexities, trauma backgrounds, and behaviours of concern across a range of settings including family homes, schools, supported accommodation, respite, and community environments. Kelsey is skilled in completing Functional Behaviour Assessments, developing Behaviour Support Plans, training support teams, and creating responsive strategies that are realistic, sustainable, and tailored to each individual.

Kelsey is deeply committed to supporting participants to increase independence, strengthen communication, build emotional regulation skills, and access safer, more supportive environments. She values collaboration, consistency, and genuine connection, and is driven by a strong passion for advocating for participants and ensuring the people around them feel confident and equipped to provide high-quality support. Her expertise includes trauma-informed behaviour support, functional behaviour assessment, behaviour support planning, stakeholder collaboration, team training, emotional regulation strategies, autism support, intellectual disability support, mental health presentations, restrictive practice reduction and elimination, and person-centred capacity building.

Kelsey specialises in supporting individuals with complex behaviours of concern, emotional dysregulation, trauma-related presentations, Autism Spectrum Disorder, intellectual disability, and high-support needs, with a strong focus on developing practical, individualised strategies that improve safety, consistency, communication, and long-term outcomes.