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

I am passionate about fostering spaces in which we can think deeply together about distress/madness, and about humane responses to people having these experiences. This has led me to travel the world, exploring inspiring practice and sharing what I've found. I'm especially passionate about exploring intersections between mental health, social justice and systemic thinking.

I have worked in the consumer workforce for nearly twenty years, in a diversity of roles. Previous roles have included:

• Resource Co-ordinator at Our Consumer Place, an award-winning, innovative resource centre for the consumer movement and workforce;
• the first consumer consultant at Spectrum, a clinical service in Victoria;
• Consumer Academic at the University of Melbourne, as well as several other research roles;
• lead trainer for Intentional Peer Support training, as part of the Expanding Post-Discharge Support Initiative, training peer support workers in every clinical mental health service in Victoria as well as many clinicians supporting the peer support workforce;
• an independent consultant to many services;
• Peer Support Manager (which included peer support work) at PartnerSPEAK, a peer-run family violence organisation;
• trainer for Insideout&associates (this role is ongoing).
• lead trainer for Intentional Peer Support, as part of the Expanding Post-Discharge Support Initiative, training peer support workers in every clinical mental health service in Victoria as well as many clinicians supporting the peer support workforce. IPS is a foundational approach in my work.
• Panel member, Independent Panel reviewing mental health law (a very fancy role in the wake of the Royal Commission. Duty of Care and dignity of risk are areas of expertise I bring. This role also introduced me to abolition, which is now an abiding passion

While I have worked within various organisations, these days I am almost entirely freelance. My work comprises an array of commitments and projects, including co-facilitating Consumer Perspective Supervision training (through inside out & associates), co-facilitating Intentional Peer Support trainings (Core, Advanced, Managers, Train-the-trainer) and IPS co-reflections, practicing and training Open Dialogue, and supervision (individual and group). I've led various projects in the past few years, including an evaluation of Alt2Su (for LELAN) and "Wading into brackish waters together: Mental health systems transformation grounded in learnings from mental health Lived Experience and First Nations' dialogical practice" (commissioned by the LE Branch of the Department of Health, with Sam Brhaspati Stott, Kerry Hawkins and Marni Tuala). I'm passionate about LE-led approaches to systems transformation.

I am trained in Intentional Peer Support and Open Dialogue (through Open Dialogue UK), I have a degree in social and political theory from university, and am trained as a Warm Data Lab host (trained by Nora Bateson). That said, I believe my personal lived experience and networking widely with others is my primary training! I'm always studying something, as I cherish ideas and learning in community (at the moment, this is mainly decolonial spaces). I first trained (and practiced) as a supervisor through Monash Health in 2012, as part of the Consumer-Perspective Group Supervision Project. At that time, I was already trained in Intentional Peer Support, including Advanced training (which includes training in Co-reflection, the IPS version of supervision). Since then, I have also attended supervision training from a Narrative Therapy perspective. I have been one of the trainers of the Consumer Perspective Supervision training in Victoria and NSW, since its inception in 2020.

My approach to supervision is highly responsive to different supervisee needs and preferences. I trust the process and have experienced the depth of thinking that emerges from shared reflective space. I am influenced by my training in both Intentional Peer Support and Open Dialogue, but also by many years engaged in this community and networking widely.

If I'm honest, I personally enjoy reflective space - holding it and being held in it. I find myself coming alive when there's a certain quality of space-holding, and I aspire to share this with others - I find it helps my own thinking/being shift to another, deeper level and have witnessed it do the same for countless others.