About Me

Hello and welcome!

My name is Rosie.

I am a passionate mental health advocate and Lived Experience worker. A little of my background: I am currently a Lived Experience researcher and guest lecturer/speaker and consultant. I have also worked as a peer support worker for 10 years in mental health wards and non-profit organisations. I recently graduated from a Master of Psychology and am now pursuing a PhD in adolescent mental health.

I identify as an LGBTQ+ person who is also autistic. I care very much about cantering social justice issues in mental health work and systems change, including the impacts of marginalisation and intersectionality, and social determinants. I have Lived Experience of severe-enduring anorexia nervosa, self-harm and suicide survival, suicide bereavement, depression and anxiety, traumas, and voice-hearing and extreme states (commonly conceptualised as psychosis/schizophrenia). These life experiences inform my work and research, and are part of my drive in improving mental health care and the understanding of mental health challenges, traumas, and post-trauma growth and healing. 

Healing and growth from surviving and managing these experiences, including barriers and harms within the mental health system and difficulties with re-engagement and accepting help are among the topics I speak about in my work, and may be topics of this blog.