Writing bios always provoke anxiety, as I’m never quite sure how to distill myself into a text box. I’m like a cloud...impossible to pin down.

For a long time I lived at the extreme ends of intensity, emotion and experience. In more recent years, through healing, I’ve learned to slow down, listen, sit with discomfort and exist in the grey. A committment to continuous learning and accountability sits at the core of my values and my practice. I acknowledge the different privileges that have supported my survival and access to resources and I stay committed to reflection and cultural humility. I am values driven and passionate about social justice and system change.

I think systemically and relationally, zooming out, noticing patterns and zooming in to the granular. I’ve had many iterations of self and my interests and passions are vast and ever‑changing. Authenticity, humour and curiosity remain a continuous through line. I love the sound of water moving, breeze on my skin, watching trees and birds, walking in the bush, being in community, solo time, exploring ideas, reading books, noticing beauty in everyday moments and moving my body to music.

Before entering the mental health sector, I spent many years in creative practice across photography, ethical fashion & textiles, graphic design, studio management, creative project management and design strategy. These practices taught me how to collaborate with diverse thinkers and communicate visually and conceptially.

Neami National, Lived Experience Practice Lead – Mental Health Hubs

Jan 2024 – Present

Leading the integration of lived experience practice and leadership across 13 National Mental Health Hubs, including the Mental Health & Wellbeing Locals in VIC, Head to Health Centres in NSW, VIC, QLD and NT, and the Urgent Mental Health Care Centre in SA. Focus includes discipline‑specific supervision, co‑reflection, Communities of Practice, mentoring LE leaders, systemic advocacy and building organisational readiness for LE recruitment, retention and career development. I also continue to oversee the early career LE programs in Vic.

Neami National, Victorian Peer Practice Lead

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

Coordinated the Victorian Peer Cadet Program, provided supervision, mentoring and training, facilitated statewide LLEW Community of Practice, offered individual supervision and coaching, supported organisational projects and strategic directions, and engaged with state peak bodies and partnerships to strengthen LE workforce capability across Victoria.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital – Waratah Clinic - Consumer Project Officer / Peer Support Worker

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022

Provided consumer perspective, peer support in SafeHaven and community teams and project work on the Royal Commission Implementation team.

Spectrum: Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma - Cert IV MHPW Student Placement

Mar 2022 – Jun 2022

Placement within a specialist service with a focus on consumer perspective practice.

I am the Lived Experience Practice Lead across Neami’s National Mental Health Hubs and a National Intentional Peer Support Trainer. My work includes developing lived experience practice, designing discipline‑specific learning and reflective structures, supporting lived experience leadership and embedding LE principles across national service models. If you also work at Neami, we can discuss any potential conflicts of interest and determine if supervision is appropriate.

- National Intentional Peer Suport Trainer (SHARC)

- Intentional Peer Support Core Training, Advanced Training, Train the Trainer/Organisational Trainer

- Consumer Perspective Supervision (Inside Out & Associates)

- Group Supervision and Reflective Practice (The Bouverie Centre)

- Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (Swinburne)

- Dialogical Practice (Open Dialogue)

- Consumers Leading in Governance (BEING NSW board placement)

- Certified Community Director (ICDA)

- Vikki Reynolds Training

- Single Session Approach (The Bouverie Centre)

- Relate & Reflect Training (In Dialogue)

Supervision needs are different for differnt humans. I draw on a range of practices to support you to connect with and grow your own inner knowing and expertise.

Intentional Peer Support and Consumer Perspective Supervision inform how I listen, relate and hold space. This means embracing the idea of safe‑enough, developing trust, leaning into accountability, welcoming vulnerability and authenticity and allowing the conversation to go where it needs to go, trusting that what needs to emerge will, depending on what is happening in your work or personal life at the time. I share intentionally and only when it serves the relational purpose.

Our supervision space will hopefully be warm, curious and practical. There are always points of connection to discover, even with differing life/lived/living experineces. Expect shared meaning-making, gentle challenging and a strong focus on practice, values and other possibilities. We will celebrate what is working well and explore what might be getting in the way. We make space for discomfort because growth often starts there. Confidentality and cultivating psychologically safe‑enough spaces for both are non‑negotiables.

I have had the privilage of healing through groups and peer relationships. Supervision helped me avoid internalising systemic issues, strengthened my LE leadership and I offer supervision to give back to this community that has given so much to me.