The Place Therapy

06/09/2026

🧡 Happy Father’s Day — to dads of all different kinds.

To the dads.
The stepdads.
The grandads.
The foster dads.
The bonus dads.
The dads doing it on their own.
The dads sharing the load.
The dads who stepped up when they didn’t have to.
The dads who are learning as they go.

To the dads raising little people who experience the world differently. The ones learning new ways to communicate, regulate, connect and understand.

To the dads sitting in therapy waiting rooms, driving to appointments, practising the strategies at home, advocating at school, celebrating the tiny wins that are actually really big wins.

To the dads who play differently, parent differently, love differently — and show up in a hundred quiet ways that might never make it onto a Father’s Day card.

And today, we’re also thinking of those for whom Father’s Day feels a little more complicated — those missing a dad, longing to be a dad, grieving a child, navigating a difficult relationship, or simply feeling something other than celebration today.

Families come in all shapes.

So do dads.

And there’s no one right way to be a good one. 🧡

Happy Father’s Day from all of us at The Place.

💌Who are you celebrating today? Give them a shout-out below 👇

03/09/2026

We are incredibly proud to see The Place featured as a case study in The Gender Index Report. 💜

But more importantly, I’m proud to be part of a much bigger and incredibly important conversation about women in business in Australia.

Women are building businesses, creating jobs, leading teams, driving innovation and making significant contributions to our economy and communities. But there are still real gaps in business ownership, leadership, access to capital and the opportunities available to women to grow and scale.

We need to keep talking about that.

We need more women starting businesses, more women growing businesses, more women in leadership and decision-making positions — and more women being backed to turn ambitious ideas into sustainable organisations.

And we need to make sure regional women are part of that conversation too.

I’m proud to be building a female-led business here in regional Queensland. I’m proud of the careers and opportunities we’re creating, the incredible women within our team, and what we’re continuing to build at The Place.

Thank you to Westpac for supporting The Gender Index and helping shine a light on women in Australian business. Having the data, stories and visibility behind these conversations is so important if we want to keep moving forward.

There is still plenty of work to do — but there is also so much worth celebrating.

Proud to be part of it. 💜

This must be The Place. (also shout out to another fierce female business owner Highfields + Toowoomba Florist for her amazing head shot pic that made the magazine) 📸 Westpac

03/09/2026

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The Gender Index Australia is the country's first comprehensive benchmark of female entrepreneurship, analysing more than 10.5 million Australian businesses to understand where women are entering, growing and scaling businesses.

01/09/2026

✨ POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT. DONE DIFFERENT. ✨

At The Place, we don’t believe sustainable change comes from writing a behaviour support plan and leaving individuals, families and support teams to figure out the rest.

Our practitioners bring years of experience working alongside people with complex diagnoses, support needs, relationships, family dynamics and levels of risk. We understand that behaviour rarely has one simple cause—and meaningful support requires us to look at the whole person and what is happening around them.

What makes PBS at The Place different is its integration with our Family Support model.

Our Positive Behaviour Support team works to understand behaviour, assess and manage risk, and develop ethical, evidence-based strategies. Our Family Support team can then help individuals and families bring those strategies into everyday life—within routines, relationships, transitions and the difficult moments that don’t always fit neatly into an appointment.

Support may include:

🔸Functional behaviour assessments
🔸Interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans
🔸Practical strategies for everyday environments
🔸Risk assessment and safety planning
🔸Coaching for individuals, families and support teams
🔸Ongoing review of what is—and isn’t—working
🔸Guidance around restrictive practices and reducing their use

We don’t want to write a plan, hand it over and say, “See you later.”

We want to remain alongside individuals, families and their teams to build understanding, confidence and consistency. Because sustainable change doesn’t come from a document—it comes from evidence-based, risk-managed and deeply human support that works in real life.

As a registered NDIS provider, we are accepting referrals from agency-managed, plan-managed and self-managed participants.

To learn more or make a referral, contact our team or complete the referral form on our website.

This must be The Place. 🧡

01/09/2026

✨ OUR BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT DREAM TEAM IS GROWING — WELCOME, DANIELLE! ✨

There are some people you work with throughout your career who leave a lasting impression—and Danielle is absolutely one of those people.

I’ve had the privilege of working with Danielle before, and I already know how incredible she is. When we talk about building our dream team at The Place, we mean bringing together people who are not only exceptional at what they do, but who genuinely care about the people and families they support.

Danielle is one of those people, and I am so excited to be working alongside her again—this time at The Place.

Danielle joins us as a Specialist Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, bringing more than 20 years of experience as a Social Worker and Behaviour Support Practitioner across disability, child safety and community services. She has also held senior clinical and national leadership roles within a large national organisation.

Danielle believes behaviour is communication. Her work isn’t about simply “managing” someone or stopping a behaviour—it’s about looking beneath the surface, understanding the whole person and listening to what their behaviour may be trying to tell us.

She brings an incredible depth of knowledge, but she is also warm, thoughtful, practical and deeply respectful. Danielle works alongside individuals, families, carers, educators and support teams to develop strategies that protect dignity, strengthen relationships and genuinely work in everyday life.

We feel incredibly lucky to have Danielle joining our village and cannot wait for our community to meet her.

Positive Behaviour Support referrals are open at The Place - make a referral via the website www.theplacetherapy.com.au/refer-to-us or email [email protected]

This must be The Place.

31/08/2026

🌟 An exciting first for The Place… meet Emma! 🌟

We’re very excited to share a new milestone for us — Emma is officially our very first school-based trainee at The Place 💜

Emma is completing her Certificate III in Business Administration and will be working with us one day a week, earning while she learns and building real-world experience alongside our team.

Creating opportunities like this is something we’re really proud of. As The Place continues to grow, we want that growth to include chances for young people in our community to learn, develop confidence, build practical skills and experience what working in a real team can look like.

We’re also incredibly grateful to the amazing team at Golden West Apprenticeships, who have supported us throughout the process and helped connect us with some fantastic candidates. Their support has made stepping into the school-based traineeship space feel so much easier, and we’re really excited about what this partnership can create for young people locally. 💛

And we think Emma is the perfect person to kick this off.

She’ll be bringing her own energy, creativity and fresh ideas into the clinic, helping out behind the scenes and learning all the different pieces that keep The Place moving.

This is a first for us, and hopefully the first of many opportunities like it.

Welcome to The Place, Emma — our first ever trainee! ✨💛

21/08/2026

Let’s have some Friday Fun!
What’s some of the Team’s favourite kids books?

Comment your favourite kids book ✨🫶🏽

20/08/2026

Bec is our wonderful Family Educator, disability advocate and proud mum of four.

She brings a whole lot of heart, insight and real-world understanding to the children, families and communities she supports.

With experience across early childhood, behaviour support, family support, trauma-informed practice and inclusion leadership, Bec is passionate about helping people feel genuinely seen, heard and understood.

She works from the belief that kids do well if they can—so when things feel tricky, she gets curious about what is underneath, what is getting in the way, and what supports might make life feel a little lighter.

Bec loves supporting families to make sense of the big stuff: behaviour, school, relationships, advocacy, overwhelm and navigating systems that do not always make things easy. Her approach is warm, practical, neuro-affirming and centred on helping people be their full, authentic selves.

She is a fierce advocate, a thoughtful problem-solver, an industry-changer and, quite simply, an all-round wonderful human.

We are very lucky to welcome Bec into The Place team.

12/08/2026

A big happy welcome to Cherise or Reecey! 🫶🏽✨

Cherise is one of our wonderful Allied Health Assistants and a mum of two who brings warmth, creativity and a brilliant sense of humour to every session.

She is especially passionate about supporting neurodivergent children and families, with a keen interest in PDA, AuDHD, behaviour and trauma-informed care.

Cherise has a thoughtful, relationship-first way of working—meeting people where they are at, leaning into their interests, and finding fun, practical ways to build confidence, skills and connection.

As part of a military family, Cherise also understands the unique mix of challenge, adventure and change that can come with postings, relocations and starting again somewhere new. Having experienced multiple URF transitions herself, she brings genuine understanding to families navigating that world.

Cherise is deeply caring, wonderfully creative and always ready to bring a little fun into the room.

We are so lucky to have her as part of The Place team.