“Prioritising Recovery. Honouring Lived Experience. Creating Systemic Change.”
From psychologist to survivor-advocate.
“This isn’t the end of my work. It’s the beginning of healing differently.”
This isn’t the end of the work—it’s a quiet, brave beginning of something new.
After 25 years as a psychologist, I’ve made the deeply personal decision to step away from clinical practice and surrender my registration.
This decision came after a long period of navigating significant health challenges, the impacts of trauma, moral injury, PTSD and burnout. Prioritising my own health and recovery, and the need to be more fully present for my for those I love, wasn’t easy—but it was necessary and transformative.
Like many of the people I’ve supported and walked beside, I’ve faced the disconnection that comes when systems fail to act with integrity and compassion, and the silence that can follow when complexity is misunderstood.. I now speak openly about my experiences to help reduce shame, honour what’s real, and create safer meaningful conversations.
I’m not currently working or offering services. For now, my focus is on healing, rest, and rebuilding from the inside out. In time, I hope to contribute through lived experience, advocacy, storytelling, and spaces that centre compassion and connection. My commitment to those affected by trauma—especially emergency service workers, health professionals, and carers—remains in my heart.
This next chapter is about healing out loud, walking alongside others with lived experience, and contributing to meaningful change through truth-telling, advocacy, and education..
Trauma isn’t always obvious
First responders are continually exposed to a higher level of stressful and confrontational situations than your average joe. PTSD looks different in first responders, usually because their resilience keeps them going and the changes that happen are incremental over long periods of time. Like a boxer slowly acquires a brain injury through multiple concussions, so too do first responders acquire traumatic brain injury, bit by bit.
Breaking down the stigma of seeking help
Knowledge is food for the mind. I want to share what I know to arm people with the skills to break down the barriers to seeking help. Navigating the Workers Compensation system can seem like stepping off into the abyss. You don’t need to stop work to get Psychological treatment under this scheme. Talk to me or your GP to find out more.
