Disability Counsel

Grow your scope of practice, by enhancing your capacity and understanding to support vulnerable persons and families more effectively.

About

Disability Counsel is a holistic service that provides both therapeutic and professional supervision services. Our founder and CEO, Dr Fiona J Davis, and her collaborative transdisciplinary practitioner team, authentically work alongside you to develop yourself and achieve your professional or personal life goals.

Dr Davis has clinical expertise spanning 30+ years within the disability sector, and is deeply committed to supporting an individual’s human rights. Dr Davis’s specialty areas of practice include Positive Behaviour Support, Dual Diagnosis (MH/I and DD/ABI/Forensic Disability), mental health interventions, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability/Cognitive Impairment and other neurological and developmental delays.

We at Disability Counsel work alongside families and individuals for the long term. Our team are specialists in health/mental health, complex disability, and autism.
Dr Davis has extensive practice and clinical expertise, has worked nationally in a number of roles and is able to couple her skills and experience to achieve the best for an individual. Fiona is a very strong advocate for vulnerable persons of all ages, who live with profoundly pervasive conditions that impact their human rights, Fiona’s key message is ‘translation to practice’ for the benefit of the person.

Fiona Davis ~ CEO

Disability Counsel Ethos

  • Authentic and realistic, down to earth approach for clinical supervision, with a focus on risk, compliance and Practice Models;

  • Authenticity in therapeutic services for persons living with disabilities;

  • Authentic lived experience of disability and the impact on the person and their significant others;

  • Translation of Practice to meet the reality of a typical life;

  • Significant credibility as an accredited Specialist Behaviour Support and dual diagnosis Practitioner.

Dr Fiona J Davis

  • Doctor of Health Science (QUT)

  • Master of Mental Health (Psychotherapy) (UQ)

  • Master of Health Science (Developmental Disability and ASD) (USyd)

  • Bachelor of Social Science (Disability and Families) (ECU)

  • Graduate Certificate in Criminology (Forensic Disability) (UoM)

  • Advanced Clinical Supervision (GTB)

  • Developmental Educator

  • BOccTherapy (Indigenous Health) (SCU current)

Member of:

Australian Community Workers Association
Australian Clinical Supervision Association
Association for Positive Behaviour Support (Aus) (Member of Inaugural Expert Reference Group)
Association of Positive Behaviour Support (USA)
Developmental Educator Association Incorporated

Disability Counsel

Disability Counsel is a therapeutic and supervision service developed by
Dr Fiona J Davis.

Practitioner

Supervision is a formal agreement between a trained and accredited supervisor and a practitioner in a specific discipline. It provides an opportunity for the practitioner to reflect on their clinical practice and gain a wider perspective for professional growth and expanding their practice scope.

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Participants

Therapeutic Services strive to enhance an individual’s self-sufficiency in their daily activities. These services may encompass various aspects, including but not limited to personal care tasks, communication, social skills, behaviours, and more. At Disability Counsel, we operate as a cohesive team of specialised practitioners/therapists, working together to identify and create inventive solutions that cater to your specific requirements.

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Get in Touch

Disability Counsel is uniquely positioned to provide specialist therapeutic and clinical supervision services in the context of complex disability/dual diagnosis/mental health services, etc.
Drop us a line in the form below and we will connect with you as soon as we can.

  • +61 409 750 759

  • fiona.davis@disabilitycounsel.com.au