I am an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) and the Founder and Director of Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs), based in Perth and providing online supervision to social workers and allied health practitioners across Australia. My supervision is reflective, external, professional, and culturally responsive, shaped around the realities of complex human service work.

AASW Accreditation is a credential held by social workers who meet the Association's standards for qualifications, supervised experience, and ongoing professional development. Maintaining it means I am bound by the AASW Code of Ethics and Practice Standards, and that I undertake continuing professional development and my own professional supervision each year. I hold myself to the same expectations of reflective practice and accountability that I bring to supervising others.

My practice is grounded in lived and living experience, as a long-term family carer, a migrant from a multicultural background, and someone bereaved by suicide. That grounding informs how I hold supervision: as a space where culture, identity, power, and use of self can be reflected on honestly, without being treated as separate from the work.

I have more than fifteen years of experience across mental health, psychosocial disability, and suicide prevention, including senior management roles overseeing statewide services. Before founding LEXs, I held general management positions responsible for service quality, contracts, and outreach across large mental health portfolios, including oversight of ten statewide services, seventy-five staff, and more than 1,600 people supported annually.

That background means I bring practical understanding to supervision across the range of settings social workers occupy: frontline practice, private practice, community services, policy, research, and senior leadership. I have supervised and mentored practitioners at every career stage, from early-career social workers to senior managers carrying organisational responsibility.

I am the Founder and Director of Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs), an independent practice delivering therapy, professional supervision, training, consultancy, and keynote speaking across Australia. My supervision work focuses on reflective practice, ethical decision-making, cultural responsiveness, and lived and living experience in professional roles.

Alongside practice, I hold national and state advisory positions contributing to mental health policy, workforce development, and lived and living experience integration. These include membership of the AHPRA Accreditation Committee, co-leadership of the Carer, Family and Kinship group within the Lived Experience Research Collective at the ALIVE National Centre (University of Melbourne), and advisory roles with Lifeline Australia, Suicide Prevention Australia, Roses in the Ocean, and the WA Mental Health Commission. I am a PhD candidate in mental health at Charles Sturt University, researching lived and living experience leadership in mental health systems.

My work has been recognised through national and state honours, including the 2025 AASW National Excellence Award (Social Worker of the Year), the 2026 Suicide Prevention Australia LiFE Awards, the 2026 WA Multicultural Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, and the 2025 WA Mental Health Award for Lived Experience Impact and Inspiration.

My qualifications include a Master of Social Work (specialising in counselling for loss and grief), a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health, an MBA (Distinction), and postgraduate study in organisational psychology. I am completing a PhD in mental health at Charles Sturt University.

Beyond formal qualifications, I have completed training in supervision and reflective practice, trauma-informed practice, and culturally responsive care, alongside ongoing professional development. I also design and deliver supervision training for the profession, including national workshops for the Australian Association of Social Workers on culturally responsive supervision for social workers from multicultural and CaLD backgrounds.

I approach supervision as a reflective, professionally grounded space rather than a performance review. Sessions are shaped around the practitioner, the work itself, the relational dynamics that shape it, and the systems and organisations in which the work sits.

Supervision with me can hold case complexity, ethical decision-making, risk, documentation, professional boundaries, use of self, vicarious trauma, workplace dynamics, leadership pressure, and cultural context. I work particularly with practitioners navigating multicultural and CaLD practice, and with social workers, peer workers, and lived and living experience practitioners reflecting on disclosure, role clarity, and the use of lived and living experience in professional work.

My aim is to create enough safety for honest reflection, so that practitioners can think clearly, practise ethically, and keep working well in complex and demanding roles.