Khaila is a Senior Behaviour Support Specialist with over eight years of experience in behaviour support and more than a decade working across community services. Her background spans aged care, supported independent living (SIL), and support coordination, giving her a broad understanding of the systems and environments people navigate.

Her practice is grounded in trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centred and dignity-driven approaches. She views each person as the expert in their own life and works alongside individuals and their support networks to ensure all interventions are ethical, affirming, strengths based and least restrictive.

In her years of experience, Khaila has led a team of practitioners and is committed to face-to-face practice, valuing the insights that come from meeting people in their own environments. This helps her develop support strategies that are practical, achievable and genuinely responsive to a person’s day-to-day reality.

Khaila supports people across the lifespan and has particular interests in co-occurring disability and complex mental health, trauma informed practice, and degenerative conditions. Alongside her behaviour support work, she also contributes to the suicide prevention sector in a casual capacity.

Khaila holds a Master of Social Work, a Bachelor of Applied Social Science, a Graduate Certificate in Business Management, and a Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance.