A clinician led consultancy translating psychological science into measurable, defensible, everyday practice, for Australian businesses, families and frontline organisations.
Since late 2025, Australian employers are required to identify, assess, control and review psychosocial hazards with the same rigour as physical safety hazards. Periodic surveys, EAPs and reactive wellbeing programs were never designed to meet that standard, and regulators have said so explicitly.
What is now expected is a documented, reviewed, ongoing approach: a record of how you are identifying psychosocial risk, what you are doing about it, and how it changes over time. That is precisely what our Minds at Work partnership is built to produce.
Foundations First Group is a clinician led behavioural science and psychological wellbeing consultancy operating Australia wide. We work with corporate clients, children and families, and the people and systems that support them.
Our work sits at the intersection of three things: rigorous psychological science, practical translation into everyday language, and measurable, defensible delivery. We do not sell wellbeing as a feeling. We design programs that produce data, evidence, and outcomes you can hand to a regulator, a board, or a parent.
FFG holds three connected bodies of work: Minds at Work (corporate wellbeing and psychosocial risk consulting), Daniel's Diaries (adaptive neuroscience psychoeducation for children), and POSU (social enterprise work with young people in out of home care and youth justice). Each funds and informs the others.
Every program is designed and led by a behavioural science clinician, not built from generic wellbeing templates.
Complex research delivered in language workforces, children and frontline teams can actually use.
Built to be evidenced over time. If it is not working on your own data, we tell you, and you stop.
Delivered Australia wide, designed so reach and quality are never a postcode lottery.
A clinician led corporate wellbeing and psychosocial safety partnership built to be defensible. Employees complete a short survey across the psychosocial domains, the data drives a tool built specifically for your business, and the focus adjusts as the picture changes. You can run it as a single measured cycle for a clear, compliant baseline, or build it year on year into a longitudinal record. The full five year version is the most complete expression of the model, never a precondition for starting.
One measured round across the psychosocial domains, with a written snapshot you can act on and hand to a regulator or board. A clear first step toward meeting your obligations, with no multi year commitment.
Surveys every three months and adjustments every six, with a tailored tool that reads return against the leave and turnover you already carry. Run it for as long as it earns its place, a quarter at a time.
The complete arc: a longitudinal dataset, a maturing return on investment picture, and a documented, reviewed psychosocial safety cycle that puts you in the strongest position if a claim or audit arrives.
Every 3 months, employees complete a short survey across the seven psychosocial domains. Every 6 months, we adjust the plan based on what the data shows. The rhythm holds whether you run a single cycle or many, and the longer it runs, the clearer the pattern becomes.
Think of the check-in like the prompt to update your password: brief, routine, and the thing that keeps the system current.
The Safe Work Australia median compensation cost of a single psychological injury claim. Psychological injury is now the fastest growing and most expensive workers' compensation claim type in the country, and the median time lost is 35.7 weeks per claim, nearly five times other injuries.
This is the budget line our program is read against, not your wellbeing line.
Two named practitioners run the programs. Both are involved in delivery; neither outsources the clinical work.
Aimee is a behavioural science consultant with a background in psychological science, completing her Honours in Psychology. She designed and leads the FFG Minds at Work program, Daniel's Diaries (an adaptive neuroscience psychoeducation platform for children), and POSU (the social enterprise arm working with young people in out of home care and youth justice).
Her clinical work spans NDIS behaviour support across children, youth justice, and forensic settings, alongside counselling and corporate wellbeing consulting. Whether the client is an eight year old learning how their own brain works, a young person in the justice system, or a workforce of three hundred, the thread is the same: rigorous psychological science, translated into language and tools the people using them can actually apply.
Kathy leads facilitation of the Minds at Work program and specialises in helping organisations meet their WHS psychosocial risk obligations, strengthen staff capability, and build psychologically safe cultures. Her background spans mental health intake, behavioural assessment, trauma informed communication, and multi state operational leadership, which lets her bring clinical insight and practical business understanding into the same room.
Having managed teams across Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania, she understands the operational realities businesses actually work within: staffing pressures, performance expectations, customer demands, and the need for consistent, compliant processes. Her training is clear, practical, and grounded in real world experience, and it is built to reduce risk, support staff wellbeing, and create workplaces where people can genuinely thrive.
Minds at Work is one of three connected programs. The others reach into the places clinical psychological knowledge most often fails to: children's everyday environments, and young people the system has missed.
An adaptive neuroscience psychoeducation platform that teaches children, in language they actually use, how their own brains work. Built around the "brain as a town, child as town planner" framework, with seven Super Skills mapped across ages 6 to 18.
Learn more about Daniel's Diaries →POSU (Pull Our Socks Up) is FFG's social enterprise arm, working with young people in out of home care and youth justice. The SETT program delivers structured psychoeducation and stability to the young people the system most often loses. Funded in part by the Minds at Work corporate program.
Learn more about POSU →A national PBS competency certification platform, designed as the rigorous, evidence-based standard for Positive Behaviour Support practice in Australia. Currently in active development.
Enquire about NeuroPBS →There is no procurement process to have a first conversation. The discovery call is twenty minutes; it costs nothing to find out whether what we do fits your organisation.
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