Every practitioner is advanced.
All ABSA practitioners meet the Advanced Practitioner tier of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework. Each practitioner brings substantial experience, is capable of supervising others, and has developed genuine depth in their chosen practice area.
Our recruitment process looks beyond credentials to the relational qualities that distinguish effective behaviour support. Robust governance, clinical oversight, and clear practice standards ensure that quality is consistent across every engagement.
Dr. Adamina Ivcovici
B Physio (Hons), MBA, B Comm (Hons), PhD (Healthcare Management)
I am a researcher, educator, clinician and lived experience advocate, with over 20 years of experience in the health sector. In everything I do, I want to start with the question of how more people can have more autonomy over their lives. Our systems often prevent exactly that, even (and sometimes especially) when they are built with the intention of safeguarding and protecting.
My PhD research explored the long-standing challenge of translating knowledge into practice in healthcare, and I'm now directing this expertise toward ensuring that lived experience expertise genuinely shapes behaviour support standards, systems and practice. My work is animated by the question of why unhelpful status quos persist in our health and disability systems and institutions, and how we can build alternative architectures that are guided by curiosity, humility, and respect for people and their human experiences.
ABSA is working to reshape one part of our disability support system by setting the standard for advanced behaviour support practice that looks beyond behaviour as the 'problem' to be solved. As an organisation, we continually scrutinise and refine what advanced behaviour support means in practice, and work with the sector to define standards and support system-wide improvements that are grounded in the lived experience expertise of the people we seek to support. We want to ensure that advanced practitioners have a way to build and evidence their capability in a currently highly unregulated environment.
We are committed to the principles of non-coercive, whole-person, rights-based practice. To uphold this commitment, we see it as our duty to challenge the status quo when it conflicts with our principles, and we value and support the ethical courage it takes to do so.