What is Immersion Therapy® ?

Immersion Therapy is an innovative allied health service co-designed and tailored to the individual and their goals in the following three area’s:

• Physical Health
• Psychological Health
• Social Health

Location and Accessibility ?

Determined2 provides services within the Adelaide Aquatic Centre, North Adelaide. The venue is equipped with: 

• Large carpark with 12 accessible parks 
• Accessible changerooms, including an overhead lifter, vertical changing station and adult sized change table 
• Three main pools for lap swimming, therapy, leisure and young children 
• Poolside chair and sling lifter 
• Fully equipped gym 
• Members only sauna and steam room 
• Creche for child-minding services 

Other locations are currently coming online around Australia and New Zealand, view locations to find your closest venue. 

Who is delivering Immersion Therapy?

Sessions are delivered by an Accredited Immersion Therapy Specialist (ATIS). An AITS:

• Has completed Immersion Therapy Specialist training
• Has a primary qualification as a registered health professional
• Must adhere to relevant standards and guidelines

This is the Determined2 team, we are a small but diverse group of people through our age, gender, and culture. We have two bilingual service delivery staff that are able to speak Vietnamese and Mandarin.

 Funding Options

Determined2 is a registered allied health provider and is registered to provide services to people supported under the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), people with a workplace injury supported by Return to Work SA (RTWSA) people injured in a road accident Lifetime Support Aurthority (LSA) people supported by the Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) and people supported by an aged care package, people can also fund their sessions privately if not supported by one of the above funding bodies.  

Contact us to find out how you can access our services through these various funding options. 

Provider Registrations 

National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Registered Provider No. 4050009088

Return to Work SA (RTWSA) Registered Provider No. 00328114

All allied health professionals employed by Determined2 are also registered with their individual professional body and Medicare. 

Common Misconceptions

World-first service such as Immersion Therapy often brings some misconceptions about what it is, including: 

 We teach people to scuba dive and/or teach scuba diving in a pool.    

There are many differences between scuba diving and Immersion Therapy, we are much more aligned with hydrotherapy. 

Immersion Therapy is beyond your capabilities. 

Immersion Therapy has been designed to be supportive and safe for people of all abilities and competencies. When you start Immersion Therapy, the rate that we travel is at the speed of trust.  

For reliable information, complete the enquiry form to receive a detailed Fact Sheet     

How does Immersion Therapy help?

Every Immersion Therapy session is co-designed specific to the individual and their goals. 
Session activities often focus on 3 core categories, participants may choose to do one type or flow between these within the same session. 

• Physical Health

• Mental Health

• Social Health

What do the Participants think?

“My experience attending immersion therapy has been beneficial in numerous ways, I was not expecting to see improvements within weeks.”
Female aged 52

“The weightlessness of exercising, exercising without pain, there is nothing I don’t enjoy about the sessions.”
Female aged 33

“It gives me relief, pain relief, emotional relief, a chance to switch off. No one can nag at me. It gets me out of bed, motivating, built strength in legs”
Male aged 56

“It’s been good for my mind. It takes my mind off my injury”
Male Aged 43

“He tires very quickly when in social situations and also physically, so being able to go under the water where it’s quiet and he is not overloaded with sensory input, well, it calms him,”
Mum of Participant aged 13

“When he’s not doing underwater therapy, there’s a lot more chewing, rocking, humming and constant moving, because he’s trying to fulfil the sensory load,” she said. “He’s always so calm after a session.”
Mum of Participant aged 21

“He is displaying happiness through his pure smiles exhibited before starting immersion sessions. This is now being observed more outside of immersion therapy.”
Support Worker of Participant aged 23

“Freedom. I feel comfortable knowing I’ve got people there who make sure I don’t overdo it.”
Participant aged 45

Using an evidence-based approach

 Since 2017, Determined2 has been a research partner with the University of South Australia (UniSA) School of Allied Health and Human Performance. We have an ongoing commitment to delivering high quality evidence-based services and to better understand how Immersion Therapy benefits our participants. If you are interested in any of the research projects, please submit an enquiry below or visit our research and medical team page.