Journey Connect

23/02/2026

🌭🔥 Our Monthly BBQ is BACK! 🔥🌭

Good food, great company, and plenty of laughs — we can’t wait to see everyone there. Come hungry and ready for a relaxed, fun afternoon together. 🌭✨

20/02/2026

🌈 FREE Rainbow Breathing Resource 🌈

Looking for a simple, visual way to support emotional regulation? Our Rainbow Breathing poster is an easy-to-use calming strategy for children, teens, and adults.

✨ Breathe in slowly as you trace up the rainbow
✨ Breathe out gently as you trace down
✨ Repeat until your body feels calm

This resource is perfect for:
✔️ NDIS participants
✔️ Early childhood settings
✔️ Classrooms
✔️ Home calm-down corners
✔️ Therapy sessions

Breathing strategies like this help build self-regulation, reduce anxiety, and support emotional wellbeing in a visual and engaging way.

📩 Comment “RAINBOW” or send us a message to grab your free copy!
🌐 www.journeyconnect.com.au

19/02/2026

Our Quokkas got creative today at our NDIS Program 🌊☀️🏝️
Using water paints and stamps, participants designed their own underwater ocean scenes - exploring colour, texture, and imagination while building fine motor skills and creativity.
Creative activities like this support emotional expression, focus, and confidence in a fun and relaxed environment.
Looking for an engaging and supportive Day Program in Townsville? We’d love to chat!

16/02/2026

🌈 Free Emotions Escalation Scale – Now Available!

Understanding emotions is the first step toward supporting regulation 💛

This visual emotions scale is designed to help children, teens, and adults identify where they are emotionally — from calm and connected (green) through to overwhelm or intense distress (orange/red).

💡 How to use this resource:
• Display it in a classroom, therapy room, home, or support environment
• Encourage the person to point to or name the colour that matches how they feel
• Use it as a daily check-in tool (“Where are you right now?”)
• Pair each colour with agreed regulation strategies (e.g. breathing in yellow, movement in orange, safety planning in red)
• Track patterns over time to identify triggers and supports that help

This scale supports:
✔ Emotional literacy
✔ Self-awareness
✔ Co-regulation
✔ Early intervention before escalation
✔ Collaborative behaviour support planning

Whether you’re an educator, therapist, support worker, or parent, this is a practical, easy-to-use visual tool to build emotional insight and safety.

📩 Comment “SCALE” or send us a message to receive your free copy.
🌐 Available now via www.journeyconnect.com.au

11/02/2026

☀️Day Program adventures in Townsville☀️
Today our Townsville NDIS Day Program headed out to Palleranda for a relaxing community outing 🌱
We enjoyed a stroll by the water, stopped in at a local café for a coffee ☕️, then returned to our hub where participants got creative making Valentine’s Day-themed chocolates 🍫 ❤️

Our day programs focus on community access, social connection, life skills, and meaningful activities, supporting participants to build confidence and independence in a fun, supportive environment.

If you’re looking for a Townsville NDIS Day Program that blends community outings with hands-on activities, we’d love to hear from you 💙

09/02/2026

Where did our day program go this Monday ? 🦜🍃
Today our participants enjoyed a peaceful outing to Queens Gardens, exploring the beautiful gardens and visiting the bird aviary. A relaxed day filled with fresh air, gentle movement, and moments of connection with nature 💚

06/02/2026

📍 Local support. Real connection.
At Journey Connect, we believe real connection happens in person.
That’s why we’re on the ground across Queensland and regional NSW, meeting people where they are, not defaulting to telehealth.
We’re here, beside you, building skills, confidence and lasting change 💙

04/02/2026

Happy Birthday Jac! 🥳🎂
Today we’re celebrating Jac, our incredible head of service delivery 💙
Your leadership, dedication, and genuine care for both our team and the people we support never go unnoticed. You keep everything running smoothly, advocate fiercely, and lead with heart every single day.
We’re so grateful for you and hope your day is filled with love, laughter, and a well-earned moment to celebrate you 💐

03/02/2026

Where did our Quokka go this week?
Our Quokka headed down to the strand for a relaxing seaside walk, followed by a stop at a local café for a well-earned coffee ☕️🌊

Outings like these are part of our NDIS Day Program, supporting independence, community access, and enjoying everyday experiences in Townsville.

30/01/2026

✨ Early Childhood Reward Charts ✨

Big feelings, big learning moments, and lots of growing happening every day 💛
Our reward charts are a simple, visual tool used in early childhood intervention to support children to build confidence, motivation, and positive routines.

When used intentionally, reward charts can help children:
🌱 Understand expectations
🌱 Feel proud of their efforts
🌱 Build consistency and independence
🌱 Experience success in a way that feels achievable

Every child is different, which is why our approach focuses on encouragement, connection, and celebrating progress, not pressure.

If you’d like to learn more about how resources like this are used within our Early Childhood Intervention Therapy, or want support tailored to your child and family, reach out to our team 🤍
We’re always happy to chat and guide you through what support might look like.

29/01/2026

🔥🦘 QUOKKA BLOCKA BBQ IS BACK for 2026! 🦘🔥

Tomorrow at 12:30pm, our much-loved Quokka Blocka BBQ returns at the Journey Connect office, and we can’t wait to see you there!

Join us for good food, great company, and a relaxed space to connect with our community, participants, families, and support network. It’s all about building relationships, sharing laughs, and celebrating the Journey Connect spirit.

If you’re looking for a supportive, inclusive NDIS community in Townsville, this is the perfect chance to come say hello and see what we’re all about 💙

📍 Journey Connect Office
⏰ Tomorrow | 12:30pm

27/01/2026

✨ Big congratulations to Kirsti! ✨

We are so incredibly proud to celebrate Kirsti on completing her Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy. This is such a huge achievement and a reflection of her dedication, knowledge, and genuine passion for supporting others.

Kirsti is now a Registered PACFA Psychotherapist, holding a Bachelor of Psychological Science and a Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, with experience in early childhood intervention and supporting adults with disability and complex mental health challenges, including individuals with trauma histories.

Her practice is humanistic, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed, with strong clinical interests in:

- Attachment and relational patterns

- Self-worth and identity development

- Emotion regulation

- Insight-based therapeutic work

Kirsti approaches behaviour as meaningful communication, shaped by relational experiences, unmet needs, environmental factors, and biological influences such as disability diagnoses. She believes true, sustainable change comes from understanding the function of behaviour and addressing skill gaps and environmental barriers, never through force, but through compassion, collaboration, and understanding.

She works with children and adults to create safe, supportive spaces where emotional and relational skills can grow, empowering people to move toward their personal goals with dignity and confidence.

We are so lucky to have you on our team, Kirsti. Your work is powerful, thoughtful, and deeply impactful 💙

Learn about Journey Connect Behaviour Support and how it can reduce the intensity and frequency of challenging behaviours with people with a disability