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

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.

I am a Lived and Living Experience Practitioner, which means that my Supervision work is informed by my own experience of distress, and working with the distress of others, using this experience with intention.

Having worked as a Peer Worker/Mentor in various roles throughout the community sector including Employment Services, AOD and Youth Work, I began training Peer Workers at TAFE in 2018. This experience revealed the need for mentoring and supervision for Peer Workforce which I began to offer and gradually establish my practice, learning with and from the Peers I supported.

I have recently completed work for the Mental Health Commission in Queensland, 2025, to inform training for those LLEW members who seek to become Supervisors. I am active in the Lived Experience community in my local area, with an Australian and International Network of psychotherapists and advocates of Peer Support Work.

I operate my own consultancy business assisting organisations both Government and NGOs to establish and support Lived Experience Workforce Development planning which includes Professional Development and provision of Supervision to individuals, groups and Managers of Peer Workers.

I have a Degree in Teaching and a Master in Counselling.

Cert IV in Training and Assessment, TESOL and Mental Health

Diplomas in Community Services - Community Development, Case Management and Child Protection

Certificate of Supervision from Australian Counselling Association to which I am registered.

A lifetime of living with anxiety and depression and developing the coping strategies to maintain financial and emotional independence.

Diagnosis - given in 2002 but unable to give back - Bipolar Disorder and PTSD - informs a strong interest in trauma and building self-directed recovery

Curiosity - having sought out mentoring from Pat Deegan, Robyn Priest and Matthew Ball among many - I am a lifelong learner who approaches every conversation with a human being as an opportunity to hear something new. Acknowledgement is given that the individual has inner wisdom and expertise which surpasses anything the supervisor can offer, however sometimes this capacity is lost or disconnected, and the role of the supervisor is to notice and assist with re connection and self-certainty. Feedback from my supervisees indicates a strong sense of safe space and freedom to wholeheartedly engage with personal professional development - we do this together.