Individual Support & Access to Intimacy

The ability to have conscious conversations and explore sensuality regarding intimacy, healthy relationships, consent and boundaries is a fundamental part of being human - and this includes people with disabilities.

Intimacy may include emotional intimacy, physical closeness, sensual awareness, relational connection, and sexual self-understanding. For many people with disabilities, these needs can be particularly significant and closely linked to self-esteem, identity, quality of life, wellbeing, social inclusion, and sexual health.

Intimacy and sexual exclusion often arise not from lack of desire or capacity, but from barriers such as physical, cognitive, psychosocial, or mental health conditions that make access to relationships and embodied learning difficult without appropriate support.

At Pleasure Heals, we provide trauma-informed, consent-based 1:1 support that honours autonomy, pacing, and choice

1:1 Sessions May Support Clients To:

  • Develop body awareness and nervous system regulation

  • Explore consent, boundaries, and communication in a clear and embodied way

  • Understand their bodies, sensations, and emotional responses

  • Build confidence regarding intimacy, dating, and relationships

  • Address shame, fear, or confusion regarding sexuality and desire

  • Strengthen connection to self and others

Embodied Touch & Somatic Intimacy Practices

Where appropriate, and only with clear, informed, ongoing consent, 1:1 sessions may include practitioner‑led touch and intimacy practices to support learning outcomes. These practices are offered as structured, intentional experiences designed to support embodied learning, regulation, and relational understanding.

Key principles include:

  • Practitioner‑led touch and/or somatic practices, directly linked to an agreed learning outcome

  • Explicit consent and choice at every stage, including the option to pause or stop at any time

  • Clear scope and boundaries, discussed prior to any touch

  • Trauma‑informed pacing, with attention to nervous system responses

  • Adaptation to individual access needs, capacity, and communication styles

These practices are always client (carer)-led and co-created to support a learning outcome. Each somatic practice is supported by an educational contract that explicitly describes client boundaries (e.g. no touch, touch) for the practice. Somatic practices are offered within a professional, ethical framework that prioritises safety, dignity, and client autonomy; and are aligned with NDIS principles where applicable.

 

NDIS-Aligned Practice & Credentials

Roxanne is an experienced support worker and holds all relevant NDIS clearances, including:

  • NDIS Worker Screening Check

  • National Police Check

  • Working With Children Check (where applicable)

  • First Aid & CPR

This allows Pleasure Heals to work ethically within disability support frameworks while maintaining strong safeguarding, consent, and professional integrity.

Ty also has experience working with people with disability.

It’s time to make accessibility sexy
— Kelly Vincent, disability advocate and former South Australian Member of the Legislative Council.
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