Self-guided Coaching

The online Carer Gateway Self-guided Coaching Service provides you with the opportunity to explore how your caring role affects different areas of your life.

Designed in partnership with carers, each coaching session will get you thinking about how you are going, how you’d like things to be and how you might be able to take steps towards making that happen. Each session includes information, practical tips, resources, reflection activities and stories from Australian carers.

The online coaching sessions can be accessed anywhere, anytime via your home computer, mobile or tablet.

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In-person Coaching

The Carer Gateway offers you the opportunity to work one on one with a coach to identify, explore and move towards your own personal goals.

As carers, we often have to set aside our own needs because the needs of another must take priority. In-person Coaching is about taking time out to think about your own wellbeing and consider how you can find space in your life to balance your needs and the needs of the people you care for.

In conversation with your coach, you can reflect on how things are going for you and whether there are areas in your life where you might like to make some changes. Together, you can explore possible steps that move you in the direction of your goals.

To find out more about how you can access this free service in your local area, call the Carer Gateway on 1800 422 737 - select option 1.


Self-guided Coaching

Choose from eight specialised coaching sessions.

Each coaching session focuses on a specific topic that’s relevant to the complex life of a carer. Each session offers you the chance to reflect on your experiences of the topic and consider the experiences of other carers too.

Sessions aim to help you explore and understand your success, along with the challenges and barriers you might be facing, and are designed to assist you to move forward in areas where you might feel stuck.

You can explore the topics that are relevant to you, at a time that suits you. There’s no need to complete all eight sessions and you can access the sessions in any order you like. You can also save your progress during a session, allowing you to return later to pick up where you left off.

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Your health and wellbeing
Take stock of your health and wellbeing and recognise your right to a healthy life. This session is a chance for you to think about how you look after yourself and to consider some of the opportunities open to you for greater health and wellbeing.
Understanding the caring journey
Find out more about the common stages in a caring role, sometimes referred to as a caring journey. Explore at the impacts of your carer role on your life, your identity and your plans for the future.
What makes for good support
Explore how you can build, strengthen and maintain supportive relationships with family, health service providers and the person, or people, you provide care for, and why this might be essential for your own wellbeing.
Understanding inclusion and advocacy
What is it that makes a space inclusive? This session explores what it means to be included and how you might how you might respond if you encounter exclusion, discrimination and stigma.
Work, study and volunteering
Explore the links between meaning, purpose and wellbeing. How might studying or being involved in paid or voluntary work be of benefit for you? How could you balance it with your caring role?
Getting your finances in order
Reflect on where your money goes and the meaning behind your spending. Specific financial issues that are common for carers are also explored.
Everyday life
What impact does ‘keeping it all together’ have on your wellbeing? In this coaching session you can reflect on the tasks required in your caring role and think about how you respond when situations and circumstances change.
How do you feel?
Consider how you might look at, and listen to, your emotions and how you can make meaning from them.