Community-based mental health OT,
across Sydney.

"Life Flow offers community-based mental health occupational therapy for individuals across Gadigal Land (Sydney) — including the Inner West (Newtown, Marrickville, Leichhardt), Eastern Suburbs (Bondi, Randwick, Coogee) and Inner City (Surry Hills, Redfern, Darlinghurst).

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Mental Health & Functional Capacity Assessments

✓ NDIS ✓ Medicare ✓ Private ✓ Telehealth

We conduct comprehensive mental health and functional capacity assessments to understand how your mental health affects your daily life. We explore your functioning, your strengths, your needs and your independence. These assessments are tailored to individual goals and can work with NDIS applications, care planning and identifying supports for participation in everyday life.

Our focus is on promoting wellbeing and independence, and creating the foundations for meaningful daily participation.

    • Functional Capacity Assessments (FCA)

    • Sensory profile assessments

    • Goal setting & recovery planning

    • Environmental assessments

    • Assistive technology recommendations

    • NDIS report writing

    • Psychoeducation


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NDIS Access Reports

✓ Private ✓ Telehealth

A Functional Capacity Access Request Report written to support your access application to the NDIS. This report provides an overview of your functioning and support needs, and is used to help determine whether you meet the NDIS access criteria.

Please note this report supports your application but does not guarantee NDIS access.

$1,500 + GST Inclusive of assessment sessions, travel and written report


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Home & Living Assessments

✓ NDIS

Our occupational therapists complete Home & Living Assessments to make tailored recommendations for living supports for individuals. These assessments provide recommendations for NDIS funding reviews, supported accommodation, home modifications, or other services to assist your independent living.

Our focus is on creating safe, sustainable, and person-centred living solutions that are tailored to your goals, your environment and your life.

    • Home & living assessments (SIL / ILO)

    • Environmental assessments

    • Independent living skills support

    • NDIS funding recommendations

    • Home modification recommendations

    • Assistive technology recommendations


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Capacity Building & Intervention

✓ NDIS ✓ Medicare ✓ Private ✓ Telehealth

We provide comprehensive, hands-on therapy to support people to reach their personal goals and live a life with more confidence, purpose and connection. Support is tailored to each person with an adaptive practice to target the growth and development in the things that matter to you.

At your core is a recovery-focused collaborative — we go to the person and if possible include community collaboration for sustained and meaningful progress.

    • Emotional regulation strategies

    • Distress tolerance skills

    • Behavioural activation

    • Social skills development

    • Routine development

    • Community participation support

    • School, study & vocational engagement

    • Life transition support

    • Relapse prevention planning

    • Sleep hygiene interventions

    • Exercise & movement engagement

    • Nature-based interventions

    • Creative therapeutic activities

    • CBT-informed approaches

    • DBT-informed interventions

    • ACT approaches

    • Motivational Interviewing


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Minor Assistive Technology Assessment & Prescription

✓ NDIS ✓ Private

We provide assessment and prescription for minor assistive technology (AT) to support your independence and participation in daily life. We assess your individual needs, recommend appropriate technology, and provide a prescription for NDIS-funded equipment where applicable.

Our experienced therapists assess your needs individually, recommend evidence-based products, and provide guidance on how to use them so you can get the most out of your equipment. We can support NDIS funding applications where AT is required however do not do complex AT e.g wheelchairs, hoists, commodes etc. Please get in touch if you would like to enquire.

    • AT needs assessment

    • Equipment recommendations

    • NDIS AT funding applications

    • Product prescription & training

    • Review & follow-up support


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Telehealth Services

✓ NDIS ✓ Medicare ✓ Private ✓ Telehealth

We offer services via Telehealth across Gadigal (Sydney), including rural, regional and remote areas across NSW. This may include working with you via video call, telephone and in other areas at Life Flow's discretion.

Life Flow's Occupational Therapy services aim to offer the same exceptional and person-centred, evidence-based therapy without having to travel long distances. We do our best to make our support as accessible as possible, wherever you are.

    • Capacity building & intervention

    • Mental health assessments

    • Goal setting & planning

    • Psychoeducation

    • Emotional regulation support

    • Recovery-oriented practice

    • All therapy modalities


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Clinical Supervision

✓ Private

We provide clinical supervision across the Mental Health Occupational Therapy space to clinicians or organisations in need of professional supervision and reflective practice. This is to ensure clinicians feel supported and clients receive effective and high quality care.

Supervision is approached by individual clinician or teams, with a focus on building confidence, maintaining best practice and respectfully engaging professionals across both a rural and metro mental health setting.

Mental Health OT Interventions & Therapies

Across our services we draw on a wide range of evidence-based clinical interventions.
Here's a more detailed look at what that includes:

Functional Capacity & OT Supports

Functional Capacity Assessments (FCA)
Home & Living Assessments (SIL / ILO)
Independent Living Skills & Capacity Building
Community Participation Support
Routine Development
School, Study & Vocational Engagement
Goal Setting & Recovery Planning
Environmental Assessments
Sensory Profile Assessments
Assistive Technology Recommendations

Therapeutic Modalities

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)-Informed
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Motivational Interviewing
Solution-Focused Therapy
Narrative Approaches
Psychoeducation
Behaviour Support Strategies
Compassion-Focused Approaches
Attachment-Informed Approaches

Mental Health & Psychosocial Interventions

Recovery-Oriented Practice
Trauma-Informed Care
Strengths-Based Interventions
Emotional Regulation Strategies
Distress Tolerance Skill Development
Behavioural Activation / Health Habit Coaching
Social Skills Development
Exercise & Movement Engagement
Life Transition Support
Relapse Prevention Planning
Sleep Hygiene Interventions
Creative Therapeutic Activities
Nature-Based Interventions

Neuroaffirming & Identity-Affirming Practice

Neuroaffirming Practice
Autism-Informed Mental Health Supports
ADHD-Informed Interventions
Identity-Affirming Practice
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Support

Reach out to see if LifeFlow is right for your client.

We work with GPs, psychologists, psychiatrists, support coordinators and allied health teams.

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Client days: Monday to Saturday