Confidential, fully funded support for survivors of sexual abuse or assault.
If you have experienced sexual abuse or sexual assault, support is available - for your mental health, your daily functioning, and your overall wellbeing.
Habit Health provides confidential, trauma-informed therapy and wellbeing support through ACC's Sensitive Claims Service. This programme funds a range of services - tailored to an individual's needs - from talk therapy to physical and functional allied health support. Together, we help survivors to heal and reconnect with the world around them.
Our services are covered by ACC and are accessed at no cost. A lead provider (Counsellor, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Social Work Counsellor) will work with you to determine your needs and goals and co-ordinate care, including access to a wider range of wellbeing and allied health support, where your recovery needs it.
Talk therapy as the core treatment
Assessment sessions
Recovery planning
Allied health support (such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, social work, nutritional support, or
speech language therapy) where needed as part of your recovery plan
You can contact us directly, you don't need a referral. We will gather some key information from you to help us best match you to one of
our therapists. If we don't have a suitable provider available, we'll let you know and provide information about how to find support elsewhere.
An approved provider will guide you through the next steps. ACC's sensitive claims pathway can vary depending on your situation.
Our team includes psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists and social workers as well as allied health providers, experienced in trauma informed care and sensitive claims support.
We prioritise:
We recognise that every person’s experience is different. Therapy is tailored to your pace and preferences.
Depending on your needs and your wellbeing plan, support
may include:
Your support is built around your individual recovery goals. You and your therapist will work together to develop your wellbeing plan, with your lead provider (therapist) coordinating any adjunct services you may need.
Your privacy is extremely important. Therapy sessions are confidential. Information is shared with ACC only as required for claim processing. You choose what you share and when. Find out more about how we protect your privacy.
Habit Health and Psychological and Sensitive Claims Services (PSCS) work together under the same umbrella to support people across New Zealand accessing ACC Sensitive Claims services.
