Aleks Jovanovic

Director & Practitioner

Location: Sydney, NSW
Role: Advanced Behaviour Support Practitioner, Supervisor, Trainer and Director
Meet Aleks Jovanovic
Aleks Jovanovic is an Advanced Behaviour Support Practitioner and Director at Soulvable Moments, with over 20 years’ experience supporting people with disability across government and nongovernment sectors. His practice is grounded in curiosity, reflection, and respect for individuality.

My Professional Journey
Aleks has worked across frontline and leadership roles, including support worker, team leader, service manager, person-centred planner, case manager, and COO. This experience provides a strong, practical understanding of disability support systems.

How I Approach Behaviour Support
Aleks delivers person-centred, strengths-based behaviour support focused on meaningful communication and practical outcomes. His work draws on Positive Behaviour Support, relationship-based approaches, and collaborative planning.

Qualifications & Accreditation
Bachelor of Social Science; Degree in Disability Studies; Diplomas in Modern Applied Psychology and Professional Psychotherapy; Accredited CBT Practitioner; Associate Member, APBSA.

Expertise & Strengths
Complex behaviour support, person-centred planning, communication and advocacy, leadership and supervision, and creative problem solving.

What Inspires My Work
Aleks views behaviour as meaningful communication and is committed to supporting people to feel understood, safe, and empowered in daily life.

Interests Beyond Practice
Aleks enjoys music, art, psychology, personal development, and coaching youth sports, often drawing on creativity and movement in his work.

A Personal Insight
Aleks integrates art, music, and movement into support environments to create strategies that feel engaging, personal, and empowering.

My Unique Strength
Helping people feel safe and recognised while developing practical, strengths-based solutions that build confidence, communication, and independence.

Yonradee (Yon)

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Location: Sydney, NSW
Role: Behaviour Support Practitioner

Meet Yonradee Wangcharoenpaisan (Yon)
Yonradee Wangcharoenpaisan, known as Yon, is a Behaviour Support Practitioner at Soulvable Moments. Based in Kingsgrove, Sydney, she brings nearly four years of hands-on disability support experience alongside a strong academic background across social sciences, community services, and early childhood education.
My Professional Journey
Yon’s pathway into behaviour support has been shaped by years of frontline disability support work, supporting people in everyday environments and learning what meaningful, practical support looks like. Combined with her academic training in human development, community practice, and early childhood, this experience informs a grounded and well-rounded approach to behaviour support.
How I Approach Behaviour Support
Yon’s practice is centred on deep listening, patience, and genuine curiosity about each person’s world. She works to understand what behaviour is communicating and collaborates closely with individuals, families, and support teams to build trust and develop practical, person-centred strategies.
Her work is guided by:
- Positive Behaviour Support principles
- Person-centred and strengths-based practice
- Developmental and early childhood frameworks
- Relationship-based, community-focused approaches
Qualifications & Accreditation
- Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences)
- Master of Arts (Social Sciences)
- Diploma of Community Services
- Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Teaching (0–5 years)
- NDIS Registered Behaviour Support Practitioner
Expertise & Strengths
- Functional behaviour assessment and support planning
- Relationship-based engagement and active listening
- Behaviour support across diverse ages and settings
- Collaborative teamwork and stakeholder communication
- Early childhood development and family-centred practice
- Cross-cultural communication and multilingual engagement
What Inspires My Work
Yon is motivated by seeing the moments where supportive, compassionate practice creates meaningful change. She values working alongside people to build understanding, confidence, and new possibilities in everyday life.
Interests Beyond Practice
Outside of work, Yon enjoys exploring new cuisines, travelling, hiking along coastlines, and learning through documentaries. She plays tennis regularly and finds that curiosity and movement support balance and wellbeing.
A Personal Insight
Yon speaks both Thai and English. Navigating between languages and cultures has strengthened her adaptability, cultural awareness, and sensitivity to how context shapes communication and understanding.
My Unique Strength
The ability to listen deeply and fully, and to translate that understanding into practical, personalised behaviour support strategies that genuinely empower the people she supports.

Zoe

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Location: Northern Beaches, Sydney, NSW
Role: Behaviour Support Practitioner

Meet Zoe Glasson
Zoe Glasson is a Behaviour Support Practitioner at Soulvable Moments, supporting people with disability to build skills, independence, and quality of life. Based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Zoe brings solid experience across disability and behavioural support services, with a practice grounded in compassion and practical problem solving.
My Professional Journey
Zoe began her career as a support worker before moving into a junior behaviour therapist role and progressing into behaviour support practice. These frontline experiences provided strong insight into the everyday realities of participants, families, and support teams.
Combined with her clinical training, this background allows Zoe to take a holistic approach—considering the individual, their environment, and the systems surrounding them.
How I Approach Behaviour Support
Zoe’s practice is informed by evidence-based approaches and the understanding that behaviour is a form of communication. She works collaboratively with participants, families, and support teams to identify underlying needs and develop strategies that are realistic, respectful, and sustainable in daily life.
Qualifications & Accreditation
- Bachelor of Psychology
- Master of Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Behaviour Support Practitioner (NDIS Framework)
- Member, Behaviour Support Practitioners Australia
Expertise & Strengths
- Positive Behaviour Support planning
- Functional Behaviour Assessment
- Autism and intellectual disability support
- Behaviour skill building and communication strategies
- Collaborative work with families and multidisciplinary teams
- Practical strategy development for support teams
What Inspires My Work
Zoe is motivated by supporting people to feel understood and empowered. She believes effective behaviour support focuses on building communication, autonomy, and participation—supporting people to live with greater confidence and independence.
Interests Beyond Practice
Outside of work, Zoe enjoys hiking, reading, trying new foods, and creating travel content. She values staying active and exploring new experiences.
A Personal Insight
Zoe has a strong interest in human behaviour and how environments influence communication and interaction. This curiosity supports her reflective, thoughtful approach to behaviour support.
My Unique Strength
Breaking down complex behaviour into clear, practical strategies that support teams can confidently apply—helping participants build skills, independence, and meaningful connections.

Boris

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Location: Sydney - South NSW
Role: Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner

Meet Boris Popadic
Boris Popadic is a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner at Soulvable Moments. Based in Liverpool, Sydney, he brings a calm, respectful, and nonjudgmental approach to supporting people with disability. His work is grounded in the belief that every person has strengths, capacity, and the potential for meaningful change.
Professional Journey
Boris was born in Bosnia and raised in Sydney’s southwest, growing up in a culturally diverse community that shaped his appreciation for difference and resilience. Before formally studying psychology, he worked as a freelance music producer, where supporting creativity and personal expression sparked his interest in working more deeply with people.
After completing his Bachelor of Psychology, Boris began working as a Support Worker and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner. He has supported people across a range of needs, including autism, ADHD, intellectual and psychosocial disability, acquired brain injury, and complex trauma, in both SIL and community settings.
Approach to Behaviour Support
Boris delivers strengths-based, trauma-informed behaviour support focused on understanding the person within their life context. He works collaboratively with participants, families, and support teams to develop practical strategies that support safety, communication, and wellbeing.
His approach is guided by individualised, participant-led planning, recognising that meaningful outcomes are most likely when people are actively involved in shaping their goals and supports.
Qualifications & Accreditation
- Bachelor of Psychology
- Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) – currently undertaking
- Diploma of Audio Engineering
Expertise & Strengths
- Psychosocial disability and mental health support
- Trauma-informed and strengths-based practice
- Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
- Functional understanding of behaviour and neurobiology
- Evidence-based and research-informed practice
- Mindfulness and self-regulation strategies
- Rapport building and nonjudgmental listening
What Inspires My Work
Boris is motivated by a strong interest in what helps people live well and feel supported. He finds meaning in seeing individuals experience greater safety, confidence, and ease in their daily lives.
Interests Beyond Practice
Outside of work, Boris is a musician with a background in audio engineering. He also enjoys travel, language learning, nature, strength training, and martial arts, using movement and creativity to stay grounded and balanced.
A Personal Insight
Boris lives with ADHD, which informs his understanding of neurodiversity and difference. This lived experience supports empathy, curiosity, and a strengths-focused approach to working with people who experience the world differently.
My Unique Strength
Creating a safe and accepting therapeutic space where people feel comfortable being honest, understood, and supported to explore positive change.

Claire

PSYCHOSOCIAL RECOVERY COACH

Claire MacDiarmid
Location: Sydney, NSW
Role: Psychosocial Recovery Coach
Meet Claire
Claire is a Psychosocial Recovery Coach with five years’ experience in trauma counselling, behavioural intervention, child protection, disability support, and family systems practice. She brings confidence, authenticity, and joy into her work, allowing her to deeply connect with everyone she supports.
Claire believes it is her job to hold hope when progress feels out of reach, add her voice when people feel unheard, find strengths where others see problems, and create solutions when nothing else has worked.
My Professional Journey
Before joining Soulvable Moments, Claire lived in the UK for 10 years. Most recently, she worked as an Intensive Family Coach in London children’s social care, supporting families with complex needs in high-risk contexts.
There, Claire developed Connective Parenting, a trauma-informed parenting programme for families navigating neurodiversity, disability, mental health difficulties and child-to-parent violence, recognised across London children’s services for innovation in practice.
How I Approach Support
Claire believes joy, humour, and creativity are essential bridges to trust, connection and change. She sees the person before the presentation, balancing clinical expertise in trauma, complex behaviour, family systems, and risk while validating people’s unique strengths, identities, and lived experience.
Having previously worked as an actress and singer, Claire uses drama, music, art, and storytelling to help people engage, communicate, build confidence and explore parts of themselves, the world, and relationships that feel difficult to access.
Qualifications & Expertise
- BSc Psychology and Counselling, First Class Honours
- British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award
- Training in trauma-focused CBT, trauma and the body, safeguarding, suicidality and self-harm, safety planning, and child sexual abuse
Expertise & Strengths
- Psychosocial recovery and mental health support
- Trauma-informed assessment, formulation, and intervention
- Neurodiversity and developmental difference
- Complex trauma, family systems, and high-risk contexts
- Working with aggression, anger, and shame
- De-escalation and safety planning
- Family and support-team coaching
- Working with intimate partner violence and coercive control
What Inspires My Work
Claire is continually inspired by the resilience of the human spirit. Particularly, the ways people keep expressing themselves, adapting, and moving forward through difficult circumstances.
Her work is influenced by Irvin Yalom’s belief that “it’s the relationship that heals,” and the Power Threat Meaning Framework’s shift from “what is wrong with you?” to “what have you had to do to survive?”
Interests Beyond Practice
Claire often asks clients, “In what moments do you feel most like yourself?” For Claire, the answer is: listening to heavy metal; shooting film photography; being in nature; playing futsal; reading; spending time with family; and trying anything crafty or creative. She once tried to hand-knot her own rug - unsurprisingly, it’s incredibly difficult!
My Unique Strength
Claire’s unique strength is bringing joy and connection into clinically complex work without losing the human being at the centre. She brings clinical thinking, systemic understanding, creativity, humour, advocacy and genuine belief in people - helping them feel understood, empowered and hopeful.

Regine

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Location: Sydney, NSW
Role: Behaviour Support Practitioner
Meet Regine
Regine is a Behaviour Support Practitioner at Soulvable Moments with over six years’ experience in the NDIS space and more than a decade supporting neurodivergent children, adolescents, and adults. She holds undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in speech and communication disorders, as well as a Master’s degree in Special Education.
My Professional Journey
With a background in early intervention, Regine has worked across preschools, schools, family homes, community settings, out‑of‑home care, and Supported Independent Living (SIL). These experiences have shaped her ecological, person‑centred practice grounded in everyday environments.
How I Approach Behaviour Support
Regine believes behaviour is a meaningful form of communication. She takes a trauma‑informed, collaborative approach focused on understanding individual needs and creating safe, predictable environments where people feel heard, respected, and empowered.
Qualifications & Accreditation
- Bachelor of Health Science (Hearing and Speech)
- Graduate Diploma in Communication Disorders
- Master of Special Education
Expertise & Strengths
- Person‑centred and trauma‑informed practice
- Strong relationship building and active listening
- Functional communication and skill development
- Practical, compassionate behaviour support
What Inspires My Work
Regine is passionate about helping people express themselves, communicate their needs, and feel confident advocating for their choices in everyday life.
Interests Beyond Practice
Outside of work, Regine enjoys spending time with family and friends, being outdoors, and taking her sausage dogs for walks.
My Unique Strength
Combining strong communication expertise with warmth and practical strategies to help people feel understood, safe, and empowered.

Emily

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Location: Wollongong, NSW
Role: Behaviour Support Practitioner

Meet Emily Durante
Emily Durante is a Behaviour Support Practitioner at Soulvable Moments, supporting people with disability to navigate life’s challenges with dignity, choice, and genuine partnership. Based in Wollongong, Emily has over 8 years of experience in the disability sector, working with individuals with complex support needs.
Emily’s work is grounded in a neurodiversity‑affirming, person‑centred approach. She is deeply committed to creating meaningful, practical support strategies that respect each participant’s lived experience and promote safety, autonomy, and quality of life.
My Professional Journey
Emily has spent the past eight years working across the disability sector, supporting individuals with complex needs in a range of contexts. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with participants, families, and multidisciplinary teams, developing a strong understanding of how behaviour is shaped by relationships, environments, and systems.
Her professional journey has been guided by a strong clinical foundation in applied behaviour analysis, combined with a genuine commitment to listening to and learning from the people she supports. Emily is particularly passionate about reducing and eliminating restrictive practices through proactive, skill‑based, and compassionate behaviour support.
How I Approach Behaviour Support
Emily’s practice is informed by evidence‑based approaches and a strong belief that effective behaviour support must be collaborative, respectful, and meaningful. She works alongside participants to understand what is important to them and develop strategies aligned with their goals, identity, and everyday life.
Emily approaches behaviour as communication and focuses on building understanding, capacity, and sustainable supports. She places great importance on working closely with families, support workers, and broader teams to ensure strategies are practical, consistent, and empowering.
Qualifications & Accreditation
- Bachelor of Psychological Science
- Master of Applied Behaviour Analysis
Expertise & Strengths
- Person‑centred and neurodiversity‑affirming practice
- Positive Behaviour Support planning
- Working with complex support needs and family systems
- Functional and collaborative behaviour assessment
- Creative and thoughtful problem‑solving
- Strong clinical grounding in applied behaviour analysis
- Multidisciplinary teamwork and systems‑based thinking
What Inspires My Work
Emily is inspired by supporting people to be active participants in shaping their own lives. She is particularly motivated by opportunities to help individuals feel understood, respected, and supported in developing their own solutions to the challenges they encounter.
For Emily, effective behaviour support is not about control or compliance, but about building safety, skills, and environments where people can thrive.
Interests Beyond Practice
Outside of work, Emily enjoys cooking, camping, and spending time in the garden. She values slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and experimenting in the kitchen.
A Personal Insight
Emily brings curiosity, reflection, and creativity into her practice. She values taking the time to deeply understand each person’s context, recognising that no two situations are the same.
My Unique Strength
Supporting participants to develop their own solutions to the challenges they face: empowering people to build confidence, autonomy, and meaningful change in their everyday lives.

Habib

Behaviour Support Practitioner

Location: Campbelltown, NSW
Role: Behaviour Support Practitioner

Meet Habib Zeitouneh
Habib Zeitouneh is a Behaviour Support Practitioner, Art Therapist, and Registered Clinical Counsellor (PACFA) whose work is grounded in creativity, reflection, and emotional safety. He supports people with psychosocial disability, mental illness, and complex trauma through a calm, person centred approach that values expression, connection, and meaningful change.
My Professional Journey
Habib has worked across acute mental health, community, and private practice settings, supporting people through both therapeutic counselling and creative interventions. This experience gives him a strong understanding of trauma informed practice, emotional regulation, and the importance of tailoring support to each person’s lived experience.
How I Approach Behaviour Support
Habib delivers person centred, trauma informed behaviour support that draws on psychodynamic therapy, creative arts based approaches, and collaborative planning. He focuses on helping people communicate, regulate emotions, and build practical strategies that feel safe, meaningful, and achievable in daily life.
Qualifications & Accreditation
Master of Art Therapy; Master of Contemporary Art for Educators; Bachelor of Arts (Visual), First Class Honours; Registered Clinical Counsellor (PACFA); Registered Professional Member (ANZACATA).
Expertise & Strengths
Creative arts based support, trauma informed practice, emotional regulation, sensory awareness, reflective practice, and culturally responsive therapeutic work.
What Inspires My Work
Habib is inspired by the belief that behaviour and emotional distress often communicate what words cannot. He is committed to helping people feel seen, safe, and supported as they develop new ways to express themselves and participate more fully in life.
Interests Beyond Practice
Habib enjoys visual art, painting, psychotherapy, and exploring the neuroscience of creativity, interests that continue to inform both his personal and professional life.
A Personal Insight
As a practising contemporary Australian artist, Habib brings an active creative lens to his work and often draws on the expressive process to support reflection, regulation, and insight.
My Unique Strength
Creating therapeutic spaces where people can safely explore difficult experiences, build emotional understanding, and develop practical strategies for everyday life.