This supervisor has been approved to provide supervision under the ACCESS TO SUPERVISION PROJECT.

Hi folks, my name is Casper (they/them). In work-land, I’m a consumer perspective supervisor, group facilitator, intentional peer support trainer, and peer worker. I approach my work from an abolitionist feminist lens, meaning I centre anti-oppressive, non-carceral approaches to peer support that build solidarity and prioritize agency, consent, equity, curiosity, and collective care. In other words, I am working alongside others to build a world where we all belong.

I’m a white settler from an anglo-celtic working-class background and a descendant of jewish-romanian holocaust survivors and refugees, who is queer, transgender, and nonbinary. I have been offered a sprinkling of diagnoses over my life so far… ADHD, autism, bipolar II, BPD, c-PTSD, but I mostly view myself as proudly disabled and neurodivergent in this ableist neurotypical world. I’ve navigated economic disadvantage, housing instability, educational disruption, rurality, family and sexual violence, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and suicidality, spanning from childhood to adulthood. I engage with these identities knowing that movement, of all kinds, affects my experiences of discrimination, oppression, access to privilege, and wellbeing.

These lived and living experiences, along with my engagement in social and environmental justice activism, inform my worldview and guide my approach to intentional peer support and consumer perspective supervision. My guiding star is my commitment to justice-doing and hope as praxis (long-term, reciprocal, and accountable community-based care), alongside my belief that kindness heals. This is why I do this work! I believe that meaningful relationships based on mutual respect and care continue to heal me, and I believe peer support creates healing relationships that can change our worlds.

As a white settler, I acknowledge my complicity in the ongoing colonization of so-called Australia. In alignment with core values of peer support such as self-determination, connection, responsibility, and authenticity, one way I honour the sovereignty of First Nations People is through financial contributions to the grassroots collective Pay the Rent. If you are non-Indigenous and have the means to do so, I encourage you to consider doing the same. I live on unceded Wurundjeri Country with my partner, baby, dog, and chosen family. When I’m not working you can find me hiking along a creek or coastline.

This supervisor has been approved to provide supervision under the ACCESS TO SUPERVISION PROJECT. If you are a supervisee who has received an approval email/letter from the CMHL you may contact this supervisor for supervision for this project, then follow the stated processes for supervision payment.

· 2022 – 2023: Peer Practitioner at Aftercare LGBTIQA+ Suicide Support (Mind Australia)

· 2021 – 2022: Peer Practitioner at Queerspace Disability Advocacy & Connection Program (Queerspace/Drummond Street Services)

· 2021 – 2022: Peer Support Worker at Peer Personality Program (Barwon Health)

· 2020 – 2022: Peer Support Group Facilitator at TAPS (fka ADMIN) Trans & Gender Diverse Alcohol and Other Drug Peer Support Group (Thorne Harbour Health)

· 2019 – 2020: Disability Support Worker at Therapeutic Horticulture Team (Kevin Heinze Grow)

· 2017 – 2019: Therapeutic Youth Worker at Youth Residential Care (CASPA)

· 2022 – present: Team Leader at Rainbow Door (Switchboard Victoria):

· Co-leading a multidisciplinary team of LGBTIQA+ Peer Helpline Workers.

· Providing CPS from a Queer lens.

· Engaging in organizational project work centred on LLE perspectives and expertise.

· 2022 – present: Consumer Perspective Supervisor (self-employed):

· Providing individual and group CPS to LLE workers across so-called Australia.

· 2025:

• Hearing Voices Approach Training (Uniting/Voices Vic)
• Hearing Voices Group Facilitation Training (Uniting/Voices Vic)

· 2024:

• Intentional Peer Support Train the Trainer Course (IPS Central)
• Zone of Fabulousness Train the Trainer Course (Vikki Reynolds)

· 2023:

• Fast Track Intensive Leadership Program for Family Violence Workers (Safe + Equal)
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (LivingWorks)

· 2022:

• Consumer Perspective Supervision Course (Inside Out & Associates)
• Alternatives to Suicide Facilitator Training (Discharged/Wildflower Alliance)

· 2021:

• Victorian LGBTIQA+ Leadership Program (Equality Project)
• Mental Health First Aid (Mental Health First Aid Australia)
• PeerZone Facilitator Training (BrookRED)
• Intentional Peer Support Core Training (SHARC)

I’m really excited by the story-telling aspect of peer support and how it helps us understand how we've come to know ourselves, others, and the world we live in. I feel a kinship with narrative practice and like to invite space for this type of curiosity and meaning-making during peer supervision sessions. 'Good' supervision to me is a reflective space based on collaboration, respect, intentionality, consistency, and mutual accountability, and some humour too. I love to laugh as much as I love moments of shared reflection, frustration, and vulnerability. I view peer supervision as a form of peer support for peer workers (and all workers with lived and living experience).

I entered this work through a grassroots approach, providing peer support in my communities for many years for free, simply to survive, before ever imagining I would be paid to do this type of work. I come from a lineage of peer workers who believe peer support should be generative and focused on collective liberation, disability justice, healing justice, and transformative justice. When co-creating a peer supervision agreement, I stick to these grassroots principles and ethics, as well as the frameworks of Alternatives to Suicide (Alt2Su), IPS, and CPS. I am anchored in my practice by the ongoing wisdom of my peers and the trailblazers who came before me. I welcome people of all experience levels and roles, and I’m comfortable working with a range of access needs.

In the end, these are just words on a screen. If you'd like to chat, I offer free 30-minute online meet-and-greets to anyone interested in accessing peer supervision, so you can connect with me and see if we're a good fit for working together. Feel free to get in touch via email at caspersela@gmail.com.