Years Across Health & Mental Health
Experience spanning nursing, community mental health, alcohol and other drug services, trauma-informed practice and suicide postvention.
My story and the bigger idea
My experience shaped the work. It is not the whole work.
I have rebuilt after childhood trauma, domestic violence and breast cancer. I also know what it is to carry responsibility, navigate burnout and realise the life you built no longer feels like yours.
Those experiences taught me something important. People do not simply lose themselves in one dramatic moment. It often happens quietly, through repeated choices made for safety, belonging, responsibility or survival.
That is why my work is not about fixing people or asking them to invent a shinier version of themselves. It is about recognising where they left themselves behind and making the next choice differently.
Lived experience gives me insight. Professional experience gives me depth. The body of work turns both into something other people can use.
