I am an aging mad, queer, punk, poly, sober peer worker.

My interest is in collective liberation and transformative mental health.

A single mum and an enthusiast of art, music and continuous learning.

My understanding of myself is as a person who lives with big feelings and intergenerational trauma.

I love trying to make sense of how we do this life together with our experiences that can hold us at the periphery.

One of the sayings that inspires me in my work comes from a podcast called "So Many Wings"-

"There are so many ways to get free and we can only get free together".

I have worked as a Peer Worker and in Peer Leadership since 2013- Over 10 years' experience.

I am heavily influenced by Consumer Survivor ex patient movement principles and by radical feminist, anti-patriarchal approaches to relational peer practice.

My training is in Intentional Peer Support (I am a trainer of IPS), Hearing Voices Network Approach and Cert 4 Mental Health Peer Work.

I am obsessed with self- help and self-determination as a principle.

I have been supervising the work of peer workers for over a decade and am skilled at sitting with complexity around peer work values and their application in mainstream services.

I currently work in a Lived Experience role providing supervision to Peer Workers.

My training is in Intentional Peer Support (I am a trainer of IPS), Hearing Voices Network Approach and Cert 4 Mental Health Peer Work.

I value and identify with the consumer perspective supervision guidelines.

I see supervision as a space to connect and form a learning partnership where both of us can move and shape each other.

It is a valuable space that enables us to process feelings around our work, learn more about how we do our work and figure out how we make sense of our own experiences within and outside our peer practice.