Defuse is a practitioner-led practice, founded and run by Esmé Jorgensen — someone who has spent time on both sides of a support plan, first as a teacher and now as a behaviour support practitioner.
NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner · Certified Behaviour Analyst · Teacher
Esmé's path into behaviour support started in the classroom, not a clinic. Years of hands-on teaching gave her a front-row view of how behaviour shows up in real, busy environments — and what actually helps in the moment. That experience carried through into further study as a Certified Behaviour Analyst, and now into NDIS Positive Behaviour Support work, where she leads Defuse's assessments and support plans.
It is this combination — teacher, analyst, practitioner — that shapes how Defuse works: plans that are grounded in evidence, but written for the people who have to use them every day.
Defuse is a start-up, and right now that means it is just Esmé. What that does not mean is working in isolation. Esmé is happy to work alongside a participant's wider support team — other allied health professionals, schools, and, of course, the family networks that support them — so that a plan fits into the participant's whole life, not just the time spent with Defuse.
In practice, that looks like checking in with a participant's other therapists, joining school meetings where useful, and making sure families and support workers are not left guessing about a strategy — because a plan only works if the people around the participant understand it and can actually use it.
Coordinating with speech pathologists, occupational therapists and other allied health providers already involved, so strategies line up rather than compete.
Working directly with teachers and school leadership, drawing on Esmé's own classroom and education-leadership background, to keep a plan realistic for the classroom it needs to work in.
Keeping families genuinely part of the process — not just informed after the fact — since they are the ones living with a plan day to day.
Immediate capacity for new referrals — assessments, de-escalation strategies and support plans.
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