We Provide The
Support You Need
Supporting your mental well-being through connection and understanding
Where Your Healing Begins
Why Choose Us?
Connection and relationships are at the heart of everything we do. We see, hear, and value you with no judgement and offer strength and belief in you and your healing journey.
We know “what happened to you?” is a much more powerful way of understanding distress and advancing healing than “what is wrong with you?” We understand that abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviours in response to abnormal events is a normal human experience.
Why We Are Different
ARC a 100% lived experience organisation and provides a range of NDIS supports, including Recovery Coaching, Peer Support and Counselling. We offer human connection and understanding to support the way you heal from mental and emotional distress.
Each person’s recovery journey is unique. We offer belief in your ability to heal because we ourselves have experienced the power of recovering through someone else’s belief in us. We work with you to make sense of your experiences, identify what you want to achieve and take steps towards this together.
What You Can Expect
You deserve the best support from your team – the kind of connection where they listen and take the time to understand your story as well as your hopes, dreams and aspirations. We’re here to offer you precisely that. Your first visit begins with us getting to know you, what your interests are and what you need to feel safe.
We’ll walk this journey together, sharing experiences, celebrating achievements, overcoming hurdles and moving forward on your healing journey.
Our Purpose
To authentically connect and hold space for our community to heal.
Your Choice of Therapies
As a 100% lived experienced team, it is important for us to offer our community additional ways to support their healing journey. We aim to help you make sense of and work through difficulties and challenges while focusing on building new skills and progressing along your recovery journey.
Recovery Coaching
Counselling
Therapeutic Groups
Carer Support
Experience and Professionalism
We are a highly qualified and diverse team with many years’ experience providing support to South Australians living with challenging mental and emotional experiences. Along with our professional expertise, we also bring the expertise of our own lived experience of psychological and emotional pain and journey of recovery.
The Right Support for You
We work with you to make sense of your experiences, identify what you want to achieve and take steps towards this together.
We see you for the sum of your experiences and know that you are not defined by your diagnosis.
Our Blogs
The Power of Peer Support in Addiction Recovery
Peer support plays a crucial role in addiction recovery, offering a unique blend of empathy, understanding, and practical guidance that can significantly impact the healing journey. Dan, the Peer Mentor Team Leader at Aspire Recovery Connection, embodies the power of lived experience in a support group setting. Having navigated his own path from addiction to recovery, Dan brings a deep, personal connection to his role. His journey allows him to build trust, create a non-judgmental space, and offer practical insights that resonate with participants. By focusing on the future and fostering a sense of community, Dan helps individuals shift their perspective from past struggles to the potential for a brighter, healthier future. His story of transformation inspires and motivates others to believe in their own potential for recovery, making him an invaluable part of the support group experience at Aspire Recovery Connection.
Innovative Addiction Recovery: Beyond the 12-Step Program with Holistic Approaches
Addiction is often misunderstood, seen through a lens of stigma and shame, leaving those who struggle with it feeling isolated and hidden. At Aspire Recovery Connection, we believe in a compassionate approach that goes beyond traditional recovery models. Our new Drug & Alcohol (AOD) support group, starting Thursday, 29th August, offers a holistic path to recovery, focusing on the whole person, not just their addiction.
Through, mindfulness techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), our program empowers participants to express their emotions, embrace their feelings, and rediscover their true selves. Recovery isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about reclaiming who you were always meant to be, free from the chains of addiction.
The Sacred Space of Grief: Honouring Our Humanity, Healing Shame, and Finding Meaning
Grief is a universal human experience, touching us in profound and transformative ways. In a culture that often avoids discomfort, grief is frequently pushed into the shadows, its voice muted and its presence diminished. Grief significantly impacts both our bodies and...
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Aspire Recovery Connection acknowledges Aboriginal people as the first Australians, traditional owners of South Australia, and respect their ongoing living and spiritual relationship with the land and sea. We respect and celebrate the many Aboriginal peoples and lands across the state.
We also acknowledge that past government policies contributed to the marginalisation, disempowerment, breakdown of connection to country, removal of Aboriginal children from their family, loss of land and income, and loss of culture and language of Aboriginal South Australians.
