Nicole Sardana
Senior Behaviour Support Practitioner
(she/her)
Nicole is a Senior Behaviour Support Practitioner with over 10 years of experience working across disability, mental health, and complex behavioural support. She holds a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) and a Postgraduate Advanced Diploma of Psychology, supported by formal training in Positive Behaviour Support and ongoing professional development across the NDIS sector. This foundation combines psychological theory, behaviour analysis and evidence-based practice to her work.
Nicole has held Clinical Lead, Senior Practitioner, and Team Leader roles, providing supervision, mentoring, and governance oversight while maintaining her own caseload of complex participants. Her clinical strengths include Functional Behaviour Assessment, Behaviour Support Plan development, restrictive practice reduction, crisis response, and ethical decision-making, all grounded in a genuine person-centred approach.
She is a registered NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner and Counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association. Nicole is known for her strong clinical reasoning, ethical decision-making and ability to work collaboratively with participants, family and multidisciplinary teams.
Nicole is currently specialising in neuro-psychosocial presentations, with a particular interest in acquired brain injury and trauma-informed practice. Her background in Coaching and Sports Psychology strengthens her reflective, collaborative approach.
Jessica Evans
Behaviour Support Practitioner
(she/her)
Jessica Evans is a dedicated and experienced Proficient Behaviour Support Practitioner with a passion for supporting people with disabilities and complex mental health challenges. Jessica has experience providing positive behaviour support to children and adults, in collaboration with families, schools, carers and government agencies.Jessica holds qualifications in Psychology, including Honours, and has gone on to undertake a Master of Clinical Psychology. Jessica also holds a Behaviour Support Practices certification from Monash University and is actively engaged in ongoing professional development to stay at the forefront of best practices in behaviour support.She is committed to providing compassionate and effective, evidence-based support to her clients.
Jess is currently accepting limited new referrals in Ballarat, regional Victoria and Melbourne metro areas. Tele-health is also available where clinically suitable.
Karlee Sangster
Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner & Access Consultant
(they/them)
Based in Northcote, Victoria, Karlee Sangster is a Specialist PBS practitioner and access consultant with extensive clinical leadership experience. Holding the title of Specialist, the highest qualification in Australia for NDIS-registered practitioners, they are deeply committed to upholding the rights of people with disabilities through the social model of disability. Karlee enjoys working with multidisciplinary care teams to develop evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions. Their clinical focus centers on reducing and fading restrictive practices while building client capacity and confidence. They work creatively, aren't afraid to ask hard questions, and fiercely advocate for their clients' rights.
Karlee’s primary area of specialisation is sexual health and behaviours. They have undertaken extensive professional development and training in this field, and have subsequently gone on to train other practitioners in this space. This clinical expertise is supported by seven years of hands-on educational experience as a Classroom Teacher and Respectful Relationships Co-coordinator at a local Special School. In these roles, Karlee applied trauma-informed frameworks to manage complex behaviours and delivered vital sexual health, puberty, and relationships education for people with intellectual disabilities.
Operating as an independent Disability Access and Inclusion Consultant since 2019, Karlee champions a co-design approach to accessibility. They have spearheaded major initiatives across Melbourne, including:
National Gallery of Victoria (NGV): Designing a first-of-its-kind series of disability-focused teaching resources and curriculum-aligned lesson plans.
Drummond Street Services: Collaborating on the Co-Design Committee to create accessible support materials for submissions to the Disability Royal Commission.
No Lights No Lycra: Facilitating disability-specific staff training and advising on program accessibility for VicHealth-funded initiatives.
Karlee’s professional practice is deeply informed by their intersectional lived experience as a queer, Autistic, and hard-of-hearing person, alongside their perspective as a parent to a neurodiverse child. Combining clinical rigour with genuine lived-experience advocacy, Karlee works tirelessly to build spaces, systems, and teams where everyone belongs.
Karlee is accepting new referrals subject to availability and clinical fit.
Tendayi Kurwaisimba
Behaviour Support Practitioner
(she/her)
Tendayi is joining us from lovely Hobart, Tasmania. She brings an exceptional depth of experience to our team combining her background as a Mental Health Registered Nurse with her work in Positive Behaviour Support. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Psychiatry and a Graduate Certificate in Forensic Nursing. She has spent years working in complex clinical environments where she leads teams in forensic mental health, emergency mental health, and drug and alcohol withdrawal services. Tendayi is an experienced PBS clinician who brings a clinically thorough and genuinely person-centred approach to her work with children, young people, and adults with disability across community and centre-based settings. She is committed to improving quality of life and fostering greater independence for the people she supports.
Tendayi is accepting new referrals in Hobart, Tasmania subject to availability and clinical fit.
Founder & Lead Clinician
(she/her)
Leila Wheib
Leila is the founder of the Good Place Collective. She is dedicated to developing family-centred, neuro-affirming approaches to PBS and fostering a culture of growth and integrity.
Leila has been working with young people and families for over 20 years in a variety of settings, including positive behaviour support, private practice psychotherapy, family therapy and youth work. She has held leadership roles within community organisations and has overseen interdisciplinary teams and large community development programs. She has also worked internationally with people experiencing displacement and political violence.
Leila incorporates a family wellness lens within the PBS model, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of the strengths and resources within the family system. She provides tailored skills training to families and teams to reduce distress and strengthen relationships. By incorporating family approaches into the PBS model, a person’s quality of life can be greatly improved, leading to positive and lasting transformation for all family members.
Leila is a neurodivergent clinician with mixed Palestinian-Bedouin and Swiss identities. She strives to use social justice approaches when working with people who have lived experiences of exclusion, marginalisation and oppression. Palestinian cultural legacies cultivate her practice, and her approach is firmly rooted within knowledge systems that centre belonging, family and strong communities. Her lived experiences contribute to her contemporary understanding of behaviour analysis, psychosocial wellness and quality of life. Leila is dedicated to lifelong learning through formal education and by listening to the people and communities she supports.
Leila currently has limited availability for telehealth-based behaviour support for a small number of participants where telehealth is clinically appropriate.
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