About Guiding Steps

Caralyn is a qualified counsellor registered with the Australian Counselling Association.

Caralyn has a goal for everyone to live their best life and reach the highest quality-of-life and personal wellbeing possible.  Caralyn believes everyone has their own unique capabilities and, with the right level of support, can share whatever is important to them.

Caralyn has worked in the Disability, Aged and Community Services sectors for over 30 years.

She has experience supporting adults and children with complex disabilities, psychosocial needs, autistic & ADHDer's, ageing and those that are living with dementia.

Caralyn has held positions from direct support worker to service coordination, positive behaviour support, diversional therapy in aged care, training and assessing and more.

She is passionate about tailoring support to the person’s needs and preferences. Caralyn’s motto is “support is person-first, person-directed and meaningful to them”.

Caralyn’s qualifications include:

• Diploma of Counselling
• Bachelor of Psychological Sciences
• Graduate Certificate in Positive Psychology
• Diploma of Dementia
• Diploma of Community Services (Disability and Case Management)
• Cert IV in Disability
• Cert IV in Training and Assessing