Giinagay! (hello or welcome).

I am a dog lover + amateur whale enthusiast, and I have lived experience of chronic illness, grief and loss. I began as a community development student-practitioner undertaking peace building and social research in rural Mexico. My curiosity has traversed the outer conflicts in our communities to the inner conflicts within our own body-mind-spirits.

Recovery and healing is a collaborative practice that is “power with” not “power over”.

While I understand the enormous value in diagnosis, as a justice oriented social worker I embrace ‘cultural humility’ and other worldviews and ways of constructing our experienced of joy, pain and suffering such as lived experience, recovery, queer, BIPOC and Nuerodivergent perspectives. I am critical of the paternalistic biomedical approach to mental illness which separates mind, body and spirit and ‘over responsibilises’ and ‘pathologises’ (terms coined by Canadian social worker Catrina Brown) the profound psychological, emotional and physiological distress an inequitable system creates.

I am not an ‘expert’ but a collaborator in your recovery.

I am committed to an individual and collective practice that is evidence informed, trauma aware, human rights oriented, heart centred, inclusive, accessible, intersectional, curious and anti oppressive. My approach is non judgemental, warm, creative, funny, self reflective and compassionate.

Ngarrayngga (take care)

I acknowledge the  custodians of this beautiful place where I live and work, the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, Birpai, and Nganyaywana Nations.  I pay my respects to Elders past and present.