Katrina Ford
Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner behind Caritas Collective, helping families and support teams across Perth turn hard days into workable plans.
Behaviour support, built around the person.
Katrina brings a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Curtin University and more than five years of hands-on experience across the Western Australian disability sector, from direct behaviour support to support coordination. She brings all of that to every person she works with.
Her practice is grounded in evidence-based methods and a belief that behaviour is communication. Rather than focusing only on reducing behaviours of concern, she works to understand the whole person: their needs, strengths, environment and goals, and to build personalised plans that genuinely improve quality of life and wellbeing.
She works closely with families, support workers and support teams, providing the training and guidance that helps strategies hold up consistently in everyday life: at home, at school and in the community.
“My mission is to promote positive, inclusive environments that respect the dignity and rights of every person I work with, through collaborative, respectful relationships that help people reach their goals.”
Katrina Ford
How Katrina works
Understand first
Careful assessment to understand why a behaviour is happening, and what will actually help, before any plan is written.
Build together
Plans developed with families and support teams, written to be clear, practical and usable by the people implementing them.
Support the team
Training and coaching so strategies stay consistent across every environment and the whole team feels confident.
Working across the Perth metro area
Based in Perth, with capacity to support new participants across Perth, plus telehealth where appropriate. Participants closer to us use less of their plan funding on provider travel.
If you’d like to talk through whether Katrina is the right fit, start with an enquiry call. No referral is needed to have a conversation.