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

I grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne in a large Northern Italian family. I now have a small gorgeous family of my own and we can be found spending time in nature, around animals, eating plenty of food and having plenty of laughs.

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.

Although I grew up with a number of family members living with mental health and substance use challenges, I stepped into a caring role 10 years ago.

As a lot of families, carers and supporters do, I have experienced mental health challenges of my own, and have always wanted to draw on these experiences to support others in the mental health and wellbeing sector.

Like a lot of people with lived experience starting their careers in mental health and wellbeing, I fell into the family carer lived experience workforce (without having any idea that it existed!)

After being made redundant from the bank where I worked for 11 years, I landed my first role as a Carer Peer Support Worker at the end of 2022, providing 1:1 and group support to the carers, families and supporters for the first publicly-funded women’s’ inpatient unit in Victoria at Footscray Hospital.

Carer Consultant for Western Health since 2023, where I:

• Co-ordinate and Facilitate the Carer Advisory Group
• Lead, co-design and co-produce projects
• Provide a voice for carers in executive committee meetings
• Manage the Tandem Carer Support Fund

Family Carer Projects Educator for Centre for Mental Health Learning since 2023, where I:

• Collaborate with other Educators to deliver projects
• Co-design and workshop content for training
• Successfully launched the Orientation to the Mental Health System e-learning package

Lived Experience Advisory Panel member for the Factors Affecting CTOs Research Study (FaCTORS)

Community Advisory Group member for the Connecting for Better Health Project

Parental Advisory Group member for Young Minds: Our Future

Carer Perspective Supervision Training – Tandem

Single Session Peer Work Training – The Bouverie Centre

Project Management Fundamentals Training – Learn4Results

Facilitating Groups Training – Carers Victoria

Mental Health First Aid – Mental Health First Aid Australia

Connection, curiosity and collaboration informs most of the work that I do, including my approach to supervision. I am motivated by seeing growth and development in others and love to celebrate small wins as well as big achievements.

Our supervision will be very much guided by you, how you prefer to unpack any concerns you have, how you prefer to receive feedback and how structured or fluid you would like our sessions to run.

I found supervision to be invaluable when navigating my way through a new (and often isolating) workforce, and it continues to guide me today.

I am very open-minded, I love a laugh and look forward to working with you!