Welcome to Crisalida!
Hello and welcome to the Crisalida team. We’re so happy to have you join us. This website staff only area is the place where you’ll find all the resources, information, forms and bits and pieces you’ll need as you embark on your new role. Or when you’re needing to access forms, guides, resources or need a reminder about something, this will be your one stop shop! We still have our Google Drive and much of the information here will take you to a google drive document. However, in order to avoid trawling through the Drive to find something, we hope that this site will much easier to navigate for key information and documents.
Our Company History:
Cris.a.lid.a
(Spanish)
Noun
1. Cocoon
2. A safe place of development
The story of Crisalida starts in 2007 when Melissa Bryan, Robyn Low and Annabelle Griffin came together with a vision for a multi-disciplinary approach to therapy services in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
From the small team of three and working out of a practice in North Fitzroy, the business has now grown to include over 30 therapists, an admin team of 8 and a much larger premises in Thornbury and a second site in Preston West.
Crisalida aims to maintain the utmost levels of service for our clients and strives to place itself at the forefront of the allied health industry.
Our directors, Melissa and Annabelle, continue to strive to provide a service in line with our original core values and family/client centred practice approach.
What We Do:
At Crisalida we provide the following products and services to our clients:
Psychology
Occupational Therapy
Speech Therapy
Art Therapy
Music Therapy
Groups, such as - Friendship, Adolescent Social Skills, Parenting Support, Music Therapy, Emotional Regulation & School Readiness.
Education support
Counselling
Psychiatry
Our Clients:
At Crisalida we see:
Children
Adolescents
Adults
Families
Mission Statement:
We strive to create a supportive multi-disciplinary therapy centre providing clients with unique and creative opportunities to make positive life changes, utilising targeted, dynamic and diverse therapy interventions.
Vision Statement:
To be outstanding leaders in allied health in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne, known for high quality outcomes and for offering a diverse range of therapies.
Crisalida has two forms of employment for our therapists and administrative staff - Employees and contractors. Our admin staff are all employed, but therapists can be either employees or contractors. One is not better or more valued than the other, they just have different characteristics that may be more suited to one person’s needs than the other. Both contractors and employees are equally valued members of our team.
Contractors
Crisalida contractors essentially rent a room from Crisalida on set days and hours. As opposed to employees, you receive the income from your clients directly and then pay a monthly percentage fee to Crisalida.
Click below to find our Handbook for Contractors, with information about Crisalida and our policies and procedures.
Employees
Crisalida employees receive an income directly from Crisalida, as well as receiving annual and sick leave and other employment benefits. Click below for our Employee Handbook.
Where to from here?
Click on the below link (or go back to the Staff home page) to find all of our policies and procedures. Here’s where you’ll find our key policies, as well as Guides to using Halaxy, our fee schedule (go to the NDIS page for NDIS fees), and basic information on opening and closing procedures, who to go to for support, how to write clinical notes etc.