My Story is not better or worse than anyone else it’s just different and diversity is to be celebrated in all forms. My purpose is to be vulnerable and share my story to empower others to never give up. Knowing that there may be just one thing that you read that plants a seed on your journey to reflect, motivate, and inspire change to live your best life possible.

My approach to the way I live and work adopts a holistic approach and this comes from my professional qualifications of Bachelor of Social Work Degree and Bachelor of Arts Degree with a Psychology Major and Sociology Minor both conferred in 2007. This has given me a knowledge-based framework to guide me both from a clinical and personal perspective.

I have also had over 20 years of experience in both government and non-government organisations supporting vulnerable persons facing challenging situations that have always been underpinned by Clinical Practice that is evidence-based. I am not an expert and I never want or intend to be, this is due to the ethical and value-based belief that I am constantly learning and evolving but also understanding the importance of research and acknowledgment of others to be best placed to guide the most up to date and clinical practice that is safe and effective for persons to live their best life possible.

My strong spiritual belief and value system have also guided me strongly in my life to use discernment, which means to know 

what is in my highest and greatest good. To learn the lessons when I have faced difficult, challenging, and often very painful circumstances in my life. These lessons were often very harsh and it wasn’t an easy process and often had to be repeated several times for me to finally do the real work required. I have always had the ability for self-reflection, critical thinking, and analysis, to reach out and seek professional support to keep moving forward. This has led me to the ongoing work of knowing my trust self worth and value and unconditional love of self to be able to fulfill my true-life purpose and legacy.

Finally, my own lived experience and knowing that everything that happens in my life happens for a reason, to know who I am, and that comes from a strong ethical, moral, and value belief system to have integrity and do the right thing no matter the consequences. This wasn’t always successful but there was a knowing that it was the right thing to do and more importantly, the only way I could live, work, and love. The journey is a lonely and difficult one and often very painful because when you do this everything and everyone who is not meant to move forward with you gets left behind. But in these moments, the darkest moments were the greatest opportunity for me to find strength and courage to keep moving forward and fight for myself for the first time in my life, to truly love myself, know my value and worth, and not accept anything more than I deserve. For this, I am eternal blessed and forever grateful for the journey.