New Service: Behaviour Support Plans: Sale|Traralgon|Yarram|Maffra|Bairnsdale
What is a Behaviour Support Plan?
Welcome to Yakini Therapy Group!
Yakini Behaviour Support Practitioner brings over 15 years of dedicated experience in the disability sector. Her career has been driven by a deep commitment to advocating for human rights and equality, reducing occupational deprivation and fostering inclusive communities where everyone can lead fulfilling and quality of lives.
Yakini offers a range of therapeutic services in the Gippsland region of Victoria, utilising evidence-based strategies and practical approaches. Our team works together to enhance each participant’s experience, ensuring our practices adhere to the highest standards of our industry.
About Yakini Therapy Group
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
At Yakini Therapy Group, we aim to provide top-quality Allied Health services to Participants living in Gippsland, Victoria. We strive to promote a safe, healthy and equality for individuals with disabilities for them to have the best quality of life.
Our Behaviour Support Practitioner (often referred to as “PBS practitioners”) assess the influences on an individual’s behaviour, and design interventions to both increase a person’s quality of life and reduce challenging behaviours.
Practitioners are engaged across disability and community services, home environments and school settings, to conduct assessments, observe and write a “behaviour support plan”, which will include a range of components such as improvements in the physical environment, communication approaches, stimulus management, and ways to teach new behaviours that are more functional or socially acceptable than some existing behaviours.
Practitioners educate and support families, carers and educators to implement strategies to help improve everyday life.
Our Team
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our team is comprised of highly trained and experienced Allied Health professionals and Allied Health Assistants who are dedicated to delivering exceptional service.
With a deep understanding of people, their environments and the responses and behaviours as a result of these.
Yakini is 100% person-centred and set goals to improve a person's quality of life. Life enrichment, choice and human rights are prioritised alongside strategies to reduce the negative impact of challenging behaviour in a person’s life.
Yakini support is delivered under a clear and accountable framework. and every intervention is provided as a customised and working solutions to meet participants unique and individual needs.
At Yakini, we believe in the power of collaboration.
Our Allied Health Assistants work alongside your Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Exercise Physiologists, Social Workers, and Dietitians as required, to help our clients achieve their goals.
Behaviour Support Practitioner, Gippsland
Empathy in Action: Journey to Making a Difference
Kristy-Lee, known as KL to those close to her, began her journey in a small town in central west NSW. Her path has taken her across multiple states, including Canberra and Darwin, where she has encountered challenges and sought achievements.
As an individual with AuDHD, KL learned early on the importance of hard work, empathy, and, most importantly, resilience.
KL's upbringing was marked by her role in raising her sisters and navigating life alongside two cousins in wheelchairs. These lived experiences instilled in her a profound passion for caregiving, pursuing equality and advocacy.
This passion led her to become a disability and aged care worker, a role where she first realised her potential to make a tangible difference.
Her educational journey in nursing and human biology further fueled her desire to help, blending academic knowledge with heartfelt care.
KL dedicated a decade to public service, ensuring those in need received support with dignity. Her role as an NDIS planner was a pinnacle of her career, allowing her to tailor care and support for individuals with disabilities, crafting plans that met their needs and aspirations.
Pursuing an Honours degree in Occupational Therapy, with a clear goal to enhance her skills and extend her impact, she has developed a passion in occupational deprivation, capacity building and occupational injustice, wanting to use her skills to help others who have not had the most advantageous increase their independence and quality of life.
Volunteering has also been a significant part of KL's life, from contributing to committees like Pride Darwin to advocating for community inclusion. Each volunteer position has been a step towards understanding how she can contribute to a society that values all its members.
KL's life is a testament to hard work and the belief that everyone deserves compassion and a chance to thrive.
In founding her business, she aims to embody these values, creating a space where empathy meets excellence and every client's needs are met with the same dedication and love she learned as a young caretaker.
Today, KL strives for perfection in all she does. She is committed to exploring the depths of human behaviour and finding innovative ways to enhance the lives of those she collaborates.
Like her journey is far from over, KL lives by the belief that each day is filled with possibilities, and every individual she meets reminds her of why she started on this path.
KL is a dedicated disability advocate committed to promoting community accessibility and overcoming obstacles. Her support services are available across Gippsland, including Sale and Traralgon.
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