This supervisor has been approved to provide supervision under the ACCESS TO SUPERVISION PROJECT. About me: Queer/gender- diverse · Neurodivergent · Regional / Rural

My supervision approach: -Grounded in lived expertise, striving for better with our service-users, and guided by my core values REAL: Respect — honouring your story, boundaries and wisdom Empathy — validating lived experience as expertise Attitude — strengths and practical Learning — Mutuality that leads to action

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.

As a CMHL Consumer Workforce Development Educator, I translated lived experience and system insights (Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System) into practical capability-building. - Built and led Communities of Practice - Facilitated in numerous training's - Consulted on introductory peer support worker training to embed consumer perspective from the ground up.

As a Participation & Engagement Advisor -Managed a Participation Advisory team - inclusive perspectives shape high-level decisions and everyday service design. - Co-designed policy and communications through social design thinking. - Developed a Diversity & Inclusion Framework via participatory design. - Led training development for Mind Recovery College (orientation, peer learning, Participation 101). - Project Lead — Rainbow Recovery: Co-designed a peer-led Recovery College for LGBTIQA+ young people, delivering psychoeducational programs in regional Victoria with families and communities.

Peer Support - the heart of where it is at

Consumer Workforce Development Educator (The Collective) In this role, I am part of establishing a statewide hub for supervision, training, and practice development across the lived experience workforce. The project is still in development, but my focus is:

- Supervision - Designing frameworks for peer learning and Communities of Practice. - Translating lived experience values into structures that support workers and services long-term.

CPS training (Consumer Perspective Supervision)

Background in education and facilitation (Master of Education) — used to support inclusive learning design

Intentional Peer Support

Co-design for Real: Beyond Sticky Notes. mindsets, methods & movements

Innovation through Design: Think, Make, Break and Repeat

I'm a person who is Autistic. Because of this I think about structure. In our session we can: -Clarify role scope, boundaries, and ethics -Debrief complex practice and psychological safety -Translate values into everyday principles - Grow facilitation, advocacy and relational skills - Collective care

I adopt a systems view in my work, which means that together we can examine contexts, work environments, and organisational structures to understand how they interact with your role. My approach is grounded in a whole-of-person social and emotional well-being perspective, focusing on leveraging existing strengths to navigate complexities.