Adult NDIS Decluttering Sessions

Transform Your Life with Our NDIS Decluttering Services

Are you or a loved one living with a disability and finding it challenging to maintain a clutter-free home? It can be difficult to know where to start when faced with the need to sort and organise the items you love from the clutter that has accumulated over time. It’s like trying to untangle a big mess of headphones – where do you even begin? But rest assured, you do not have to face this challenge alone.

At The Art of Decluttering, we specialise in providing personalised NDIS decluttering services to build daily living skills and independence for adults with disabilities. Our Professional Organisers understand the unique challenges faced by NDIS participants and are dedicated to supporting their journey towards a more organised and independent lifestyle.

Decluttering is not just about tidying up; it’s about creating a functional, relaxing space that can significantly improve daily living and well-being. For adults with physical disabilities, acquired brain injuries, mental health challenges or chronic disorganisation, a clutter-free environment can reduce stress and boost mental health. We assist participants, family members, and support workers, to implement systems that provide support, build independence, and create a functional home to achieve their personal goals.

How the Decluttering Process Works

Whether you want to focus on one room or create a more functional home, understanding the decluttering process can be a game-changer.

How the Decluttering Process Works

1. Goals

Whether it's achieving a safer and more functional living space, organising the kitchen so you can prepare meals safely, or decluttering a bedroom, we tailor our approach to meet your specific needs. We work with you to develop a personalised plan to ensure that the decluttering and organising support we provide aligns with your goals and needs.

2. Declutter

Our approach is not just about decluttering items that are no longer wanted or needed, it's about supporting you to make decisions about your belongings and create a space that reflects your personality and needs. Through this process, we equip both you and your support team with the tools and strategies for independence and lasting change.

3. Organise

We love creating storage and organisational solutions that are designed with your family and lifestyle in mind. We understand that organisation is not a one-size-fits-all approach, especially when it comes to living with a disability or mental illness. Our team considers your sensory preferences, mobility limitations, and individual routines to develop customised organisation solutions.

4. Support

We provide support to help you build your independence, to refine and implement systems, processes, and routines that help you and your support team maintain the room or spaces we've decluttered and organised.

NDIS decluttering support

We understand that maintaining an organised space is an ongoing journey, and we’re here to provide support every step of the way.

Why Choose Us?

The Art of Decluttering recognises the importance of client focused supports to create a clutter-free environment and functional home to improve well-being and empower participants to live more independently. A maintainable home promotes a sense of calm and safety for all who live in the home.

Tailored Sessions

At The Art of Decluttering, we recognise and celebrate the uniqueness of each person and understand that everyone has their own distinct needs and preferences. Our approach to decluttering sessions is carefully tailored to accommodate these individual requirements, ensuring that each person receives personalised attention and support.

Expert Guidance

Our team of experienced and compassionate decluttering experts have extensive experience working with individuals supported through the NDIS. We aim to create a comfortable and engaging environment where each participant can thrive and make meaningful progress in their decluttering journey.

Engaging Methods

We bring compassion, understanding, fun, choice, and creativity to each session. Our gentle encouragement and guidance throughout the decluttering and organising process empowers participants to develop essential organisational skills while building their confidence and independence.

Respect and Privacy

We understand that decluttering can be a personal and emotional process, especially when it comes to sentimental items and personal belongings. Our team approaches each session with empathy and understanding, ensuring that you feel comfortable and respected throughout the entire process.

Benefits of Decluttering and Organising for Your Space

Bedroom

Improved Sleep
Reduced Stress Levels
Easier to Clean
Find your items with ease

Bathroom

Building self-care independence
Improved personal hygiene
Reduction of self-care refusal
Remove barriers to following multiple-step self-care
Space feels more open

Kitchen

Improved healthy eating
Minimise germs, reducing the potential for illness
Easier to maintain cleanliness
Increased independence to prepare and cook meals

Family Room

Reduced visual clutter to reduce overstimulation
Sensory tools or therapy aides are organised so family spaces can remain communal and accessible for all family members
A welcoming environment for support workers and therapists

Toy Room

Clear organisational systems that children can follow and successfully maintain
Reduced clutter leads to increased concentration
Improve creativity
Support of friendships and interaction through play

The Value of Decluttering Sessions for You

Building Independence

Building Independence

Learning and adopting decluttering practices designed to suit your needs, empowers you to grow your organisational skills and build independence.

Improved Social Connection

Improved Social Connection

A clutter-free environment can boost your confidence in inviting friends and family over, creating more opportunities to combat social isolation and improve social connections. Through implementing a tidy and organised space, you can be more relaxed and present with loved ones.

Improved Family Life

Improved Family Life

When you feel less overwhelmed by clutter it can also reduce the tension clutter causes in relationships, creating more space for meaningful conversations and quality time together.

Improved Accesibility

Improved Accessibility

Working to your strengths, personal requirements and physical capabilities we work with you to create an organisational system that is tailored to your needs.

Safer Environment

Creating a Safer Environment

Removing excess items creates space, reduces tripping hazards, and makes it easier to move around, enhancing safety and ease of access.

Increased Calm

Increased Calm

Clutter can be overwhelming and stressful. A decluttered space can improve mental well-being and provide a calming environment, allowing you to focus on what’s most important.

Decluttering Services for NDIS Participants

NDIS Session - Single Blitz
Adult decluttering service
$640
4 hours plus donation removal
Declutter and organise any or every space in your home with the support of a Professional Organiser
Patient and non-judgemental coaching and expert hands on assistance
Support to develop routines, systems and habits that will enhance your everyday life
Sessions for children, adolescents and adults
Suitable for plan and self-managed participants
Communication with support coordinators/plan managers as needed
Services for clients with both physical and psychosocial disabilities
We take your donations to charity for you (invoiced as 15 minute of non face to face services)
30 mins of travel each way included, additional travel invoiced at NDIS recommended rates
Book as many sessions as you need, most people start with 3-5 sessions
Get Started
NDIS Session - Double Blitz
Declutter
$1320
4 hours plus donation removal
Declutter and organise any or every space in your home with the support of two Professional Organisers
Patient and non-judgemental coaching and expert hands on assistance
Support to develop routines, systems and habits that will enhance your everyday life
Sessions for children, adolescents and adults
Two Professional Organisers to manage all the lifting, carrying, organising and physical work
Suitable for plan and self managed participants
Communication with support coordinators/ plan managers as needed
Services for clients with both physical and psycho social disabilities
We take your donations to charity for you (invoiced as 15 minute of non face to face services per car load)
30 mins of travel each way included, additional travel invoiced at NDIS recommended rates
Book as many sessions as you need, most people start with 3-5 sessions
Get Started

Engaging Our Services: A Step-by-Step Guide

Ready to take the next step towards a clutter-free and organised space for adult? Engaging our services is a simple process. Whether you're an NDIS participant, carer, support coordinator, allied health professional or LAC, we're here to assist you every step of the way.

  • To get started, you only need to fill out our convenient contact form or call Amy using the number provided below. We'll be happy to answer any questions you may have and discuss how our services can meet your specific needs.
  • Once we understand your requirements, we'll work together to book the perfect organiser for you or your participant.
  • To streamline the process, we'll email you our NDIS intake form, which you can easily fill out at your convenience. This form helps us gather essential information to tailor our services to your child's unique situation.
  • After completing the intake form, we'll schedule your sessions and eagerly look forward to meeting you and embarking on the decluttering and organising journey together.
Melbourne
Gippsland
Yarra Valley
Mornington Peninsula

We’d love to work with you!

If you're interested in talking further or booking a declutter session
please leave us your details in the contact form or call Amy directly on 0438 659 658

Meet The Team

Amy

Jacqui

Freya

Brigi

Bec

Marianna

Aileen

Susan

Phoebe

Frequently Asked Questions

I'm an NDIS participant or carer, how would I benefit from decluttering services?

We find most participants would benefit from our decluttering services and support whether it be one session or a series of sessions to help in your home.

Clutter has physical, emotional and psychological impacts on health and wellbeing and affects everyone in different ways. 

 If you need help with:

  • Decluttering and organising your home and space
  • Making your home more functional
  • Setting up systems and processes to help your home run more smoothly
  • Creating a calm and relaxing space to meet your goals within your home

Then you would benefit from our support. 

We can assist you with decluttering and organising as well as help set up processes and systems to help your home run more smoothly. We also help develop daily living and life skills as well as build independence in both children and adults.

Here are just a few of the many ways our decluttering services can align with your NDIS goals:

  • If your plan is to learn how to prepare healthy meals, we can help you declutter your kitchen/pantry so it’s easier to do meal preparation.
  • If your child’s plan is to build independence in getting ready for school on their own, we can help by decluttering and organising their bedroom so they can easily find their uniform and pack their school bag
  •  If your child’s goal is to get ready on time, we can set up the bathroom so it’s organised and decluttered so they can easily find their toothbrush and don’t become distracted by other things cluttering the space.
  • If having a cluttered and disorganised home increases your anxiety, we can help you create a home where you feel relaxed and comfortable.

I'm a Support Coordinator, how would my participant benefit from your decluttering services?

Most people don’t explicitly have the word decluttering in their plan, however we find most participants would benefit from our decluttering services and support whether it be one session or a series of sessions to help in the participant’s home.

Clutter has physical, emotional and psychological impacts on health and wellbeing and affects everyone in different ways. 

We can assist participants with decluttering and organising as well as help set up processes and systems to help their home run more smoothly. We also help develop daily living and life skills as well as build independence in both children and adults. A lot of OTs will recommend that participants work with us for a couple of sessions to help achieve the goals the participant is working on. 

Here are just a few of the many ways our decluttering services can align with participants NDIS goals:

  • Meal planning and preparation can be difficult for those with executive dysfunction. Decluttering and organising a participant’s kitchen and pantry equips them to more easily complete this daily task with independence.
  • Getting ready for the day can be stressful for both parents and children. Having morning routines and organised spaces will help children be able to find what they need and build independence. 
  • Depression, anxiety and living with clutter can be a vicious cycle. Non judgemental professional support with decluttering can be an important part of mental health management.
  • Living in a messy and cluttered home has a detrimental effect on all family members. Creating functional spaces and safe environments is key to successful family life and healthy relationships.
  • Fatigue and overwhelm are common among those with complex health conditions. Professional Organisers are experienced at creating a calm and relaxing space in which to meet participants goals within their home.

Do you have experience working with NDIS participants?

Yes! We have been working with participants through the NDIS since 2016. Our team are experienced professional organisers, supporting clients with both physical and psycho/social disabilities. We have experience helping children and adults with post-traumatic stress disorder, acquired brain injuries, visual impairment, chronic diseases, multiple sclerosis, autism, ADHD, anxiety disorder and depression, just to name a few. We help hundreds of NDIS participants each year and we are passionate about helping all people gain freedom from clutter.

What does a session look like?

We are a hands-on service. We come alongside you to help you achieve your goals in a really practical way that a psychologist or OT or speech pathologist isn’t going to be able to do in a 4 hour hands-on session. We come in and physically do the work either with yourself, the NDIS participant, a parent/guardian/caregiver or whoever is in the home who can be the decision maker. 

After an introduction and quick tour of the space to be worked on, we talk to you about your goal and vision for the space. During this time we ask how you want the room to function; what you want to be able to do with the space, how you would like it to look and feel and then we start the decluttering process. 

We work with you and coach you in decision making about what needs to leave the house as rubbish or donations and what is staying in the house. We then help organise the space and set up systems to keep things easy to access, clutter free and organised.

Do I need to do the work with you?

We take your capacity into consideration in all sessions. It’s totally fine if you need to sit the whole time, rest, take a break or lie down during the session. It is important that you are present within the home and available to make decisions with us as we never make decisions on your behalf about what is to stay and what is to be removed from your space. We are also there to help and coach you through any difficult decisions. 

In the case of some families, if the participant is a child, they may not be in the home during the session and the parents have specifically arranged for us to come while the child is at school. In this case the parents or care givers would be the decision makers.

We will be there to do all the lifting, carrying, organising and physical work and are confident in helping clients with both psycho/social and physical disabilities, and fatigue. 

In a typical 4 hour session we make sure we all have a quick 10 minute break so we can all have the energy to complete the session.  

We do not require additional support workers to be in attendance during sessions, but welcome whatever support people you might need to feel confident and comfortable during our sessions. Sometimes our NDIS participants will have a support worker or support coordinator attend the first session and then feel very comfortable to have future sessions on their own.

I’m plan managed, can I access your services?

Yes! Please have a chat to your Plan Manager or Support Coordinator to confirm that our services fit within your plan goal/s. They are welcome to give us a call for further clarification. 

I’m self managed, can I access your services?

Yes! We would love to help you access our services through your self managed plan. Please fill in the contact form and we will give you a call to discuss your goals and how we can support you.  

I’m NDIA managed, can I access your services?

We are unable to help NDIA managed participants at this time.

How does invoicing work?

If you are self managed:
Invoices are sent upon completion of each session with 7 days terms of payment. Tolls, donation drop off and any travel expenses will be itemised on your invoice.

If you are plan managed:
We are not NDIS registered; however most participants can include decluttering and organising in their current plan, providing there are sufficient funds and it aligns with your plan goals.

Invoices are sent upon completion of each session with 7 days terms of payment. Tolls, donation drop off and any travel expenses will be itemised on your invoice. We suggest speaking to your support coordinator or plan manager if you require further advice on whether our services fit within your plan.

How do you invoice for tolls and travel?

The first 30 minutes of team travel each way is included in all service packages. Any additional travel time after the first 30 minutes will be billed accordingly at our hourly rate. Non labour costs (vehicle expenses) are invoiced at $0.97 per km after the 30 minutes of included travel.

Any tolls and cost of parking incurred in providing services will be itemised on your invoice as per NDIS guidelines.

What happens to the rubbish at the end of a session?

Normal household rubbish is placed in your bins. For larger amounts of rubbish, we work with a company called 1800 Got Junk in our major cities and in regional areas use local rubbish removal companies.  1800 Got Junk are familiar with working with NDIS participants and where possible, we organise for them to come on the day that we are working with you. The best thing about it is that they pack the truck for us which means our time is not taken away from working with you. They will also take it straight away so you don’t have to look at it anymore or deal with it at a later date. 

Please speak to your support coordinator to determine if rubbish removal can be included in your NDIS plan, or if you need to pay for this privately. You will be entering an agreement with any rubbish removal company separately to our service agreement.

They only charge for what they remove whereas with a skip you are charged the full amount regardless of whether you fill it or not. 

Can you take away donations?

Yes! We are able to take up to one car load of donations to charity at the end of each session. We simply invoice 15 minutes of time for this service and the TAOD team member will complete this after your session finishes.

We deliver to many charity shops around Australia and we know what they will take and what they will not take. If you would like your things to go to specific places, you will need to do that delivery yourself, unless it is convenient for our staff to do it on your behalf.

If you have more donations than fit in our car, we can help you book a donation pick up or help you fill your car also if you are able to do a donation drop off yourself.

What happens if I am not up to having the session when you arrive?

Our team is really gentle and understanding and able to handle whatever state you’re in when you open the door.

Our team is very experienced in gauging situations and reading the room. Sometimes when you open the door you might feel exhausted and anxious so rather than racing into working straight away, we want you to feel comfortable. We are there to serve you so if you need 10 mins at the start of a session to have a cup of tea etc then that’s totally fine with us. 

Sometimes we do have the case when we turn up and someone says “I’m not up to it today.” In these situations, we have a few strategies that we use. Rather than say ok and walk away, and charge the full cancellation fee, we will ask you if you could do just 10 minutes together. Or are there any items we could take as donations? Are there some easy wins we could do?

We will often provide alternatives, maybe offering a shorter session. We might say, “What if we just try for half an hour/half a session?” because once we start together, more often than not participants will start to engage and say “Let’s keep going, I’m feeling good now.” But we never push; there is always freedom. So if we turn up and someone truly can’t do the session, we fully acknowledge that and it’s accounted for in our cancellation policy and service agreement.

What is your cancellation policy?

Our cancellation policy is as per the NDIS guidelines. Any cancellations made with less than 2 business days incurs a full cancellation fee.

For example: if you have a session booked for a Thursday, as long as you let us know before the session time on Tuesday (say 10am), there is no cancellation fee at all. However, if there is anything less than two business days, the full cancellation fee is invoiced.

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