Meet the Perth Team
Say hello to our beautiful Perth team!
Director +
Behaviour Support Practitioner
(she/her)
About Laura
Age: 12+
Location: Lower Hunter, Newcastle and surrounding areas
Telehealth: (If assessed to be appropriate).
Areas of speciality:
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- Psychosocial Disability
- Major Mental Illness
- Intellectual Disability
- Autism
Laura is a qualified AASW practicing Social Worker and Behaviour Support Practitioner with over 17 years of clinical experience, providing clinical mental health support across community settings for primary mental health services, private practice, and the disability and child protection sectors. Laura’s most recent roles include Therapeutic Support Clinician, Behaviour Support Clinician, Clinical Advisor and working in a Clinical Practice Directorate as a Senior Practice Leader/Project Lead in the Northern Territory.
Prior to this, Laura spent a large majority of her career with her family in remote parts of Australia (WA, NT), whereby cultural humility, sensitivity and congruence is significant. Rustling in the red dirt and camping in the outback suited Laura and her family perfectly! Her strong connection to her hometown of the Hunter Valley and her extended family brought her home, where she implemented her vision of creating a Hub space for individuals that fosters healing, connection, recovery and clinical excellence.
Laura is extremely passionate about walking alongside individuals on their own unique journey and has a natural ability to build relationships. Laura does this with ease through her professional, warm and down to earth nature and is highly skilled in providing a service that is tailored to an individual’s needs and essence. Laura is committed to ongoing learning, striving for deeper practice knowledge and understands the importance of staying connected to new learnings to be an effective and strong ethically-minded Director.
Laura is grateful for the ‘Hub’s Dream Team’ whereby all staff and clinicians hold values that align with the Hub’s deeper purpose. The Hub wouldn’t be what it is without our amazing clinicians!
Laura is grateful for the community support and looks forward to ongoing opportunities to grow and respond to the needs of our diverse community.
Senior Social Worker
+ Behaviour Support Practitioner
(she/her)
About Danielle
Age: 14+
Area: Perth Metropolitan Area (preference Northern and Eastern Metro suburbs)
Areas of speciality:
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- Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
- Complex Psychosocial Disability
- Mental Health and Behaviour Support
- Intellectual Disability
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Trauma and Attachment
- Emotional Regulation and Behaviours of Concern
- Functional Behaviour Assessments and Capacity Building
- Restrictive Practice Reduction and Elimination
- Complex Systems Collaboration and Advocacy
Introducing Danielle, our warm, earthy, and down-to-earth Behaviour Support Practitioner and Senior Social Worker with over 18 years of experience supporting individuals across disability, mental health, justice, housing, and health settings.
Danielle is deeply passionate about Positive Behaviour Support and is guided by social work values of compassion, advocacy, inclusion, and human rights. She believes that behaviours of concern are often a form of communication linked to unmet emotional, sensory, relational, environmental, or support needs. Her approach is trauma-informed, person-centred, and grounded in genuine curiosity, empathy, and understanding, with a strong focus on improving emotional safety, quality of life, independence, and meaningful outcomes for the individuals and families she supports.
She has extensive experience supporting individuals with complex psychosocial presentations, trauma histories, emotional regulation difficulties, substance use, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Acquired Brain Injury and behaviours of concern. Danielle is particularly skilled in working alongside participants who may have experienced significant adversity, systemic barriers, stigma, disengagement from services, or involvement with complex support systems.
Danielle’s practice focuses on developing practical, strengths-based, and meaningful strategies that build emotional regulation, communication, independence, coping skills, and safer ways for individuals to have their needs understood and met. She values working collaboratively with participants, families, support teams, and multidisciplinary professionals to create support environments that are responsive, respectful, and sustainable.
Danielle also works within a hospital Emergency Department as a Social Worker, further strengthening her expertise in crisis intervention, psychosocial assessment, behavioural escalation, mental health presentations, family violence, substance use, and understanding the broader social factors that can impact behaviour and wellbeing.
Danielle has worked locally, overseas, and throughout remote areas of the West Kimberley in Western Australia. Her broad professional background, calm and authentic nature, and commitment to ethical, culturally safe, and inclusive practice allow her to build genuine relationships with people from all walks of life.
Outside of work, Danielle enjoys candle making as a creative outlet to slow down and reconnect. She is the proud mother of a young son, partner of an Irish man, and dog mum to a handsome fluff ball. Danielle brings warmth, humour, authenticity, and deep compassion into every aspect of her practice.
Senior Occupational Therapist
(she/her)
About Nicola
Age: All ages
Location: Outreach - North - Perth Metropolitan Area
Telehealth: Available (if assessed appropriate).
Areas of speciality:
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- Physical and Intellectual Disability
- Social and Emotional regulation
- Autism
Introducing Nicola, our compassionate, caring and dedicated Clinician/Occupational Therapist, with a passion for supporting people of all abilities to reach their goals, big or small. Nicola has both clinical and leadership experience providing therapeutic services for people with intellectual, physical and mental health conditions. She has a Master of Occupational Therapy and has worked within both metro and rural community settings, making her highly adaptable and knowledgeable within a variety of clinical settings.
Nicola is highly skilled in providing Functional Capacity Assessments, motivated by her passion for best outcomes and empowering people to live a meaningful and happy life. She has extensive experience in emotional regulation strategies, equipment prescription, social skills and conflict resolution. Nicola also has a particular passion for positive behaviour support and routine based intervention approaches, incorporating individual, behaviour-based interventions to meet a person’s unique needs.
Nicola places focus on supporting the person, family and their network; working collaboratively within all settings and environments to support people to work towards their goals and to implement positive change in their lives. Her authentic and gentle nature is a breath of fresh air, and builds a foundation for a respectful, effective therapeutic relationship with people she supports.
Nicola is grounded by work-life balance and loves spending time with her husband, two children and dog. She loves going camping with her family, scrapbooking her holidays, or winding down watching a good re-run of old TV series.
Accounts Assistant
(she/her)
About Brooke
Introducing our wonderful Accounts Assistant Brooke Omotosho. Brooke brings a very diverse work history whereby she has lived and worked abroad specialising in accounts and credit control. Brooke's role is to support our amazing clinicians in doing what they do best by managing the paperwork in a highly organised and professional manner. Brooke is thrilled to be part of a dynamic team and a unique organisation who are shaking things up in the Mental Health Space. Great leaders are certainly often behind the scenes!!
Administration Assistant
(she/her)
About Narelle
Introducing our kind, bubbly and creative Admin Assistant Narelle Cassidy (Nez). Nez brings with her an extensive background in customer services with well over 15 years experience across a variety of industries inclusive of diverse management roles. Nez also has experience of running her own business, allowing for an abundance of transferable skills that we are lucky to learn and grow from as a small and passionate organisation. Nez is looking forward to becoming a valued member of the dynamic FHH team and working alongside our supporters and wider community and is committed to the Hub’s values, vision and deeper purpose. Nez will very likely be your first point of contact alongside Lana, fielding inquiries and referrals in a timely manner.
When not working Nez enjoys spending time with her partner and three young boys, being near the ocean, a day at the bay with her family or taking the caravan away. Nez has a very calming, open, and fun demeanour and a very contagious laugh!