You may be aware that I’ve had a Masters Rehabilitation Counselling student working alongside us at Purple Co. Its been a fantastic experience and I really enjoy imparting into the next generation of rehabilitation professionals. I asked our student to reflect on the Bio Psych Social Model of rehabilitation, to impart what she has learned in theory to what she has observed, witnessed and experience on placement. Her response is really insightful and one that I would recommend anyone interested … [Read more...]

Fatigue is a really big problem.  A really big problem. It’s a problem, because we don’t seem to be talking about it in a way that is useful and helpful to the prevalence of people who live with fatigue each day.  (A conservative estimate puts the number of people in Australia with chronic fatigue disorder at 180,000.) Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome presents a significant challenge to people with CFS and their healthcare practitioners. A client will say ‘I can’t because I am too fatigued’, a … [Read more...]

I am often in awe of the client’s we serve at Purple Co. People who have experienced forced change in ways that you and I may never experience, yet there is this desire to move beyond circumstances and into a new future. That new futures is quite often very different to the future they had envisioned prior to injury, illness and disability. I am not writing this piece to expound how inspiring clients are. I am sure many of us who have worked in workplace based rehabilitation have been inspired … [Read more...]