How can a Social Worker help you?
Help with life's ebbs and flows
Social workers can help you learn new skills, strategies and techniques to help you build your capacity to deal with the Ebbs & Flows of life. We work with a holistic and person centred approach that is evidence based.
Have a look through the list and see if any are relevant for you currently or might be into the future.
Confidence
Social workers can help improve your confidence and self esteem.
Resilience
Social workers can help you to build resilience to meet life’s challenges.
Understand your disability
Social workers can help you understand your disability and deal with what this means for you.
Family Relationships
Social workers can support you as you navigate parental and sibling relationships and the impact of having a family member with a disability.
Relationships
Social workers can help work through with you how your disability might impact on, and how to manage relationships, friendships, employment, education, pregnancy and parenting, social situations, communication and independence.
Mental Health
Social workers can support you through mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, difficult emotions and suicidal thoughts.
Grief and Loss
Social workers can support you as you navigate times of grief and loss, and how your disability may impact how you thought your life would be.
Physical Health
Social workers can help navigate the complexities of working with health care providers to support a collaborative, holistic approach to your care.
Healthy Lifestyle
Social workers can help you develop strategies and supports to maintian as healthy lifestyle whilst living with a disability.
Ageing
As you age your needs may change. Social workers can help you navigate these changes in the context of your disability.
Loneliness
Social workers can help support you through times of loneliness.
Life stages
Social workers can help you as you navigate different life stages living with a disability, for example, moving our of home, studying, employment or starting a family.
Therapy
Social workers can provide therapy to help you work through difficult times and to be a safe place you can come to talk about how you are feeling.
Goal Setting
Social workers can help you set goals and work towards achieving them. This all starts with helping you figure out what you want from life and devising a plan of how to get there.
Self Advocacy
Social workers can help you learn how to advocate for yourself – how to speak up and be heard.
Decision Making
Sometimes making good decisions is hard. Social workers can help you learn how to make good decisions.
Linking
Social workers can provide you with support with dealing with or linking with other organisations such as Centrelink or Housing.
Information
Social workers can provide information and support to people who you are connected to you so that they understand you and your needs better e.g. employers, sports/social groups, support workers, other support agencies and disability organisations, family/ friends or anyone else important to you.
Support for the whole of you....
Social workers can help you as you navigate difficult emotions and challenging situations.
Difficult Emotions
- Fear
- Anger/frustration
- Guilt/shame
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Suicidal thoughts
Time of transition
- Grief and loss
- Change
- Ageing
- Managing your disability
- Conflict
- Advocacy
Family and Relationships
- Parenting
- Sibling relationships
- Family dynamics
- Friendships
- Relationships
- Starting a family
You decide.
You decide what you want to work on and how you want to work with us. You are always in control.