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About
Neurodivergent Empowered
Capacity building designed around autistic nervous systems.
Free to Be Me.
What We Do
Neurodivergent Empowered is a Registered NDIS Provider delivering capacity building, therapeutic supports, and community participation infrastructure for autistic and neurodivergent children, teens, and adults on the Sunshine Coast.
We provide neurodivergent-affirming environments where regulation comes first, masking is not expected, and participation is paced to capacity rather than performance.
Our work is informed by the National Autism Strategy, which centres meaningful participation, inclusive environments, coordinated supports, and the reduction of barriers to community involvement.
Our Values - Pokémon edition
Authenticity – Pikachu
People are not required to mask, perform, or comply in order to participate.
Pikachu was offered evolution and said no – choosing to stay itself and prove it was enough exactly as it was.
Joy – Mew
Interest-led engagement is recognised as a valid and sustainable way capacity develops.
Mew plays, explores, and follows curiosity freely – its capacity comes from interest, not pressure.
Connection – Sylveon
Relationships are built through consent, pacing, and felt safety - not expectation or pressure.
Sylveon only evolved because it felt safe enough to bond - and its ribbons only reach out when trust is already there.
Safety – Snorlax
Environments are regulation-first, with clear boundaries and predictable responses.
Snorlax is grounded, settled, and takes up space without apology - nothing to brace against, just steady presence.
Sovereignty – Lucario
Participants retain decision-making authority over their own lives and supports.
Lucario reads what's real, holds its boundaries, and makes its own calls – no one overrides that.
Accessibility – Psyduck
Supports adapt to communication, sensory needs, pacing, and fluctuating capacity.
Psyduck experiences the world intensely – sometimes overwhelmed, sometimes powerful, always different. It's met in all of those states, not asked to be easier to support.
Meet The Team
Our team is neurodivergent. We hold professional qualifications in counselling, mental health, occupational therapy, early childhood, and allied health assistance – and we bring lived experience of navigating systems that weren't built for us.
All team members work within their scope of practice and under appropriate clinical governance and supervision, in line with NDIS Practice Standards. Within collaborative arrangements, clinical responsibility for allied health interventions remains with the treating Allied Health Professional.
