mātau ā-wheako CPSLE Reflective Practice/Supervision Options
Contact
0221020941
haydeerich71@gmail.com
Based in Tauranga Moana
Contact
021 201 8337
Camille.k@carenz.co.nz
Camille Keyte She/Her
Co-Chair National Addictions Lived Experience and Whanau Forum
I bring 18 years of lived experience in mental health and addictions, along with five years of sustained recovery. My mahi is grounded in lived experience, recovery values, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Currently, I work as the Lived Experience Lead at CareNZ, supporting tangata whaiora one-on-one in both rural and urban clinics, while also contributing to systems change and workforce development.
I have completed my graduate certificate in health sciences in lived experience practice and currently working towards my postgraduate diploma in health sciences in leadership and management. I hold professional registration with dapaanz as both an Accredited Addictions Peer Support Worker and Peer Supervisor. In 2023, I was honoured with the dapaanz Peer Support Excellence Award at Cutting Edge.
Beyond clinical settings, I work alongside many stakeholders including corrections and the justice system. I offer both individual and group supervision for anyone in a consumer, peer support, lived experience role and draw on the CPSLE Competencies as the foundation of my practice, along with models such as WHOA, to provide supervision that is reflective, empowering, and practical.
I understand the realities of peer roles working both independently and within clinical teams. As a supervisor, I aim to provide a safe and supportive space for reflection, professional growth, and strengthening practice, so that peer workers can thrive in their roles and continue to deliver meaningful, lived-experience-led support.
Beyond clinical settings, I work alongside many stakeholders including corrections and the justice system. I offer both individual and group supervision for anyone in a consumer, peer support, lived experience role and draw on the CPSLE Competencies as the foundation of my practice, along with models such as WHOA, to provide supervision that is reflective, empowering, and practical.
I understand the realities of peer roles working both independently and within clinical teams. As a supervisor, I aim to provide a safe and supportive space for reflection, professional growth, and strengthening practice, so that peer workers can thrive in their roles and continue to deliver meaningful, lived-experience-led support.
I offer face to face in the Waikato region aswell as online nationally.
Amanda Bradley She/Her
- With a diverse background in the Mental Health and Addictions sector I am passionate about sharing my experiences and insights. I am here to empower both emerging and established leaders, supporting them to flourish in their roles while uncovering new opportunities for growth and self-discovery.
- Areas of Expertise
- Mental Health and Addictions
- Lived experience
- Executive leadership
- Reflective practice / supervision
- Mentoring and coaching
- Lived experience workforce development Operational management
- Service design and implementation Recruitment and performance management Governance
- Unlock your potential with one of the following services;
- Leadership Coaching and Mentoring - a one hour session, where I will support you to become the leader you want to be.
- Lived Experience Reflective Practice - a one hour session, helping you to learn and grow through mutual support and experiential knowledge based on the Tupuranga framework.
- Group Reflective practice - 90 min session with up to 8 participants
Contact
027 240 5316
experencematters.leadership@gmail.com
virtual and/or face to face depending on location
Contact
021 912313Keepwellnz@gmail.com
Arana Pearson He/Him
Are you a mental health consumer worker peer supporter consumer leader or consumer consultant seeking meaningful, reflective supervision? With over 30 years of experience in the mental health sector I bring a wealth of knowledge and a deep commitment to the values of peer support and consumer leadership.
Training & Qualifications
• Trained with Ron Coleman (UK), Sherry Mead (Certified WRAP Presenter), and Patricia Deegan (USA).• Understanding and application of the 12-step peer support process.• I have a bachelor’s degree from Massey University.• I am qualified by 30 years of working experience, within a range of services including NGO, government, and hospital based clinical services.• I hold a peer supervision certificate from recent training supported by Te Pou.
I am available to provide tailored supervision sessions remotely, connecting with you via phone or Microsoft Teams.
Malcolm McKenna
Tena koutou katoa
He uri ahau nō Ngāti Rāhiri Tumutumu me te whakapapa
I began my working life in the New Zealand Army, later stepping into roles in sales and building. But my true journey started in the shadows — through addiction, homelessness, child uplift, and imprisonment. These experiences tested me, reshaped me, and ultimately became my greatest teachers.
Like Tawhaki climbing the vine to the heavens, my path has been steep, uncertain, and full of trials. But each challenge brought insight. I didn't return with the kete matauranga of old — I came back with something just as powerful: lived experience, humility, and a deeper understanding of myself and others.
Now, through Te Ara o Tawhaki, I support others on their own climbs. This mahi is about transformation, not perfection. It’s about walking alongside those facing addiction, disconnection, and trauma — not to lead them, but to awhi them, reflecting back their own strength and potential.
I am an Abacus qualified supervisor. Have an excellence in peer support award from Dapaanz. Diploma in addiction counselling from Otago university, Te Taketake.
Now, through Te Ara o Tawhaki, I support others on their own climbs. This mahi is about transformation, not perfection. It’s about walking alongside those facing addiction, disconnection, and trauma — not to lead them, but to awhi them, reflecting back their own strength and potential.
I am an Abacus qualified supervisor. Have an excellence in peer support award from Dapaanz. Diploma in addiction counselling from Otago university, Te Taketake.
Contact malcolm@tearaotawhaki.co.nz
Website http://tearaotawhaki.co.nz/
Availability changes weekly, but I’m just a message away
Saskia Ymker She/Her
Specialties
- Intentional Peer Support & Peer Supervision
- Personal, Relational, & Systemic Transformation
- Values-Based Leadership & System Advocacy
If this approach resonates, I’d welcome a conversation
Contact
saskiaymkerwork@gmail.com
- Tena koutou katoa
- Ko tenei taku mihi ki nga tangata whenua o te rohe nei.
- No Horana, Wera, me Airangi oku tupuna.
- Ko Te Whanganui-a-Tara te kainga.
- Ko Saskia toku ingoa.
- No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena tatou katoa.
I offer co-reflection grounded in Intentional Peer Support (IPS) - a relational, collaborative approach that centres mutuality rather than advice or direction.Together, we create a space where you can feel seen, heard, and understood. From shared understanding, clarity emerges and new possibilities become visible, shaped by your values, context, and aspirations.
Grounding & Experience
- Intentional Peer Support Trainer and Co-Reflection Facilitator
- Trained in IPS (2019); former Peer Supporter with PeerZone
- Shaped by the whakapapa and values of the Mad Movement
- Experience delivering IPS training and co-reflection locally, nationally, and internationally
- Lived experience leadership in organisational and system change roles
My practice attends to what’s unfolding within you, between people, and across the systems you move within - supporting empowerment, meaning-making, and change.
“Empowerment grows through mutual exploration, not advice or direction”
Ana King
acting general manager for Balance Aotearoa
I have worked in the mental health sector for over nine years, with the last three and a half years dedicated to the lived experience workforce. I hold a Level 4 Certificate in Mental Health Peer Support (2016) and graduated in 2023 with a Bachelor of Applied Management, majoring in Human Resources. In February 2026,1 will begin studying for the Level 6 Certificate in Addiction and Mental Health Supervision.
I work for Balance Aotearoa, a lived-experience, peer-led mental health and addiction peer support service based in Whanganui and have been with the organisation for almost four years. My work experience in the mental health sector involves community residential, youth acute, adult acute, forensic services, and both adult and youth forensic intellectual disability services.
Contact
ana@balance.org.nz
027 810 7707
In my current role. I split my time between providing peer support in the local forensic unit (Stanford House) and delivering long-term, one-to-one peer support in the community for people experiencing complex mental health challenges. Alongside this, I contribute to sector development through lived experience advisory work for the National Forensic Advisory Group, the CPSLE Scopes of Practice Advisory Group for Te Pou. and the local Supporting Parents Healthy Children Steering Group.
I live with bipolar II disorder and have a lived experience of postnatal depression, which informs my empathetic and recovery-focused approach. I have experience offering reflective practice through orienting new staff, supervising student placements, and acting as a team leader when required.
Outside of work, I’m a proud mum to four wonderful boys. Our lives revolve around sports and adventure, and our home is full of energy, fun, and a bit of chaos! I love being a mum and enjoy the challenge of shaping my boys into well-rounded, empathetic, and caring young men. My biggest life passion is fitness and sport, which is also one of my main wellbeing strategies. I’ve been running for six years, finding calm and emotional balance in every run, and ticking off some major life goals along the way. I also love football, cycling, and the occasional triathlon. I’m a strong supporter of the LGBTQI community and share life's adventures with my loving and supportive wife, whose encouragement helps me grow personally and professionally every day.
I live with bipolar II disorder and have a lived experience of postnatal depression, which informs my empathetic and recovery-focused approach. I have experience offering reflective practice through orienting new staff, supervising student placements, and acting as a team leader when required.
Outside of work, I’m a proud mum to four wonderful boys. Our lives revolve around sports and adventure, and our home is full of energy, fun, and a bit of chaos! I love being a mum and enjoy the challenge of shaping my boys into well-rounded, empathetic, and caring young men. My biggest life passion is fitness and sport, which is also one of my main wellbeing strategies. I’ve been running for six years, finding calm and emotional balance in every run, and ticking off some major life goals along the way. I also love football, cycling, and the occasional triathlon. I’m a strong supporter of the LGBTQI community and share life's adventures with my loving and supportive wife, whose encouragement helps me grow personally and professionally every day.
Heather Penzel they/them
HOLISTIC PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISOR
Originally from the north central region of the US, Heather has lived in Aotearoa since January 2019. is a cat person with tattoos, and has a startlingly loud laugh. Heather was a secondary school teacher for 5 years before working with homeless young adults and taihoi in care for 15 years following. In the meantime, Heather also earned a Master’s degree in Spiritual Formation from Portland Seminary, a school founded in the Quaker tradition. They grew up in a conservative Christian context and has engaged in the the hard work of deconstruction and reconstruction of their spirituality. Over the years, Heather experienced a rich variety of spiritual expressions and faith traditions.
Annie Southern
Lived Experience Leader
Annie Southern is a respected lived experience leader in the fields of mental health, addiction, and trauma-informed practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. With a PhD in Health Science looking at careers for people with lived experience and with training in supervision, and a strong background in kaimahi/staff training and development.
Annie is known for her work transforming mental health systems through co-design, lived experience leadership, and holistic approaches to wellbeing.She has headed up a co-reflection in-house supervision team in the mental health and addictions service space and line-managed peer teams. She is trained in several peer support modalities.
Contact
annie.southern.phd@gmail.com
027 777 0093
Annie has held roles in tertiary education, workforce development including contributing to the Te Pou supervision guidelines, and in NGO leadership, and has contributed to numerous sector-wide projects to embed peer values and trauma-informed care into policy and practice.
She is looking forward to working with peer kaimahi/staff as an external supervisor, which she already does for a number of kaimahi/staff from various organisations.
Based in Otautahi/Christchurch she also works online and is Indigenous (Romany Gypsy) and has also been working with kaimahi from kaupapa Maori organisations. She is also used to working with neurodivergent workers being autistic herself and with the rainbow workforce. Having experienced homelessness and psychosis she is also empathetic to those coming into the workforce from these shared experiences.
She is looking forward to working with peer kaimahi/staff as an external supervisor, which she already does for a number of kaimahi/staff from various organisations.
Based in Otautahi/Christchurch she also works online and is Indigenous (Romany Gypsy) and has also been working with kaimahi from kaupapa Maori organisations. She is also used to working with neurodivergent workers being autistic herself and with the rainbow workforce. Having experienced homelessness and psychosis she is also empathetic to those coming into the workforce from these shared experiences.
Contactmcgill.janice@yahoo.co.nz
021683614
Tēnā koutou katoa,
I bring over 20 years’ experience working in mental health and addiction services, with a strong commitment to the growth, development, and integrity of the peer workforce. My aim is to create spaces where lived experience and peer values can flourish and where the CPSLE workforce is supported to work with confidence, clarity, and connection.
I bring over 20 years’ experience working in mental health and addiction services, with a strong commitment to the growth, development, and integrity of the peer workforce. My aim is to create spaces where lived experience and peer values can flourish and where the CPSLE workforce is supported to work with confidence, clarity, and connection.
Janice McGill
Tena koutou katoaKo Pirongia te maungaKo Waikato te awaKei te Whakatu Nelson au e noho ana
Ko Janice McGill toko ingoa
- Skills
- Peer workforce development
- Training development
- Training facilitator
- Leadership
- Supervision/co-reflection
- Education
- ABACUS Counselling Training and Supervision (Level 6)
- (PET) and Advanced PET
My approach to supervision is grounded in reflective practice – fostering peer values, beliefs and professional development. I am dedicated to assisting peers in “staying peer” - navigating workplace tensions, maintaining role fidelity, and to continue growing in ways that strengthen their voice and contribution to their communities.
Power to the People Tēnā tātou katoa.
Emma Hunter
She/Her
Lived Experience Supervision - Hauora Peer Reflective Practice (Supervision) provides a mutually safe space to share and develop how lived-experience is used in an intentional way in our work, share experiences and discuss challenges in the context of valuing and learning.
The reflective practice relationship is founded on the concept of mutuality, enacted through the exchange of life experiences, skills and knowledge that each person brings. The supervisory relationship is embedded in whanaungatanga and manaakitanga. Values and principles that are woven into this reflective practice relationship such as self-determination, experiential knowledge and curiosity ensure genuine intrigue, openness and interest whilst supporting the process to be non-judgemental and mana enhancing for all participants.
Peer Supervision is an opportunity to:• Be empowered through sharing and exploring work experiences• Engage in reflecting on practice• Learn from someone else’s experiences• Be supported to ‘find our feet if we are new to work• Engage with different perspectives which can spark new ideas• Be supported in a non-judgemental and culturally responsive environment• Critically reflect on the work, role and position description• Building on our lived experience knowledge and growing our professional practice
Manaaki whenua, Manaaki tangata, Haere whakamua
Care for the land, Care for the people, Go Forward
With an extensive background in Lived Experience roles and experience in delivering peer supervision to a diverse range of positions across the MH and AOD LE workforce, Grounded in models such as Te Pae Mahutonga and Te Wheke, my approach is holistic, focusing on exploring and nurturing personal and professional growth in each individual's area of expertise. I hold a post graduate diploma in Maori Health, certified in Level 8 Cultural Supervision for TangataTe Tiriti and Abacus MH and AOD Supervision Level 6.
Contact 027 282 0615 - I am open to questions, or a trial connection.
Carron Cossens
I am a 62 year old widow living in Kurow, beside the Waitaki River that generates power for the motu. I have two adult children. Libby (39) who is based in Germany and William (32) who is based on Waiheke Island.
My lived experience began in my teenage years. I have a range of labels but wear the label of survivor proudly.
I have experience as both volunteer and paid Peer Support Worker, and a facilitator of Support Groups in my community. I have also been a calltaker on the 1737 Peer Line and currently relieve when necessary.
I have studied Supervision and Coaching in the New Zealand setting. I am currently studying Lived Experience practice with AUT, working towards a Postgraduate certificate.
I have the privilege of 'supervising sixteen kaimahi as part of my role as host of the Southern Peer Hub. They work in a range of settings from co-located to peer-led organisations. I prefer to call our time together INTENTIONAL CONNECTION, blending Intentional Peer Support and the Peer Competencies and Values in our time together.
I also run "one-off" connections when things are feeling activating or overwhelming for kaimahi. A connection that aims to allow leaving work for the day without an empty tank.
Fiona Clapham Howard
Crucible Consulting NZ
Tena koutou katoaKo Kotirana, Aerana, me Awherika ki te
Tonga nga whakapaparanga mai, engari
Ko Otepoti te whenua tupu, meKo Otautahi te kainga inaianeiKo Fiona Clapham Howard ahauNo reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena tatou katoa
About me and my approach
I've been in lived experience roles in the New Zealand mental health, addictions, and social service sectors since 2005. I stepped back from front-line roles in peer support and advocacy at the end of 2019, and set up my business, Crucible Consulting NZ - providing supervision/reflective practice, training and workforce development for the lived experience workforce.
In terms of facilitating reflective practice sessions, my values, attitude and approach are summed up well by the 2025 Te Pou publication, Tupuranga: a place to grow.
In terms of facilitating reflective practice sessions, my values, attitude and approach are summed up well by the 2025 Te Pou publication, Tupuranga: a place to grow.
Contactclaphamhoward@gmail.com027 452 5607
I'm based in Christchurch but work with people throughout the motu, in person and virtually, one-to-one or in groups.
The perspectives I bring to reflective practice conversations are informed by 20+ years of work in lived experience roles, including peer support and advocacy, peer manager, service director, consumer advisor, training developer and facilitator, governance of lived experience organisations, consumer auditor and evaluator.
In terms of peer support mahi, I'm most familiar with Purposeful Peer Support Aotearoa, along with IPS - I'm a training facilitator in both approaches, and have applied both in my mahi in different settings over the past several years.
As a result of personal lived experience (both of distress and of ongoing healing). I’ve been influenced by the purposeful way of thinking about relationship that I discovered through the group therapy method known as psychodrama. I also have a particular interest in exploring the impact of systems, structures, power imbalances, and the legacy left to survivors of childhood adversity and trauma.
In terms of peer support mahi, I'm most familiar with Purposeful Peer Support Aotearoa, along with IPS - I'm a training facilitator in both approaches, and have applied both in my mahi in different settings over the past several years.
As a result of personal lived experience (both of distress and of ongoing healing). I’ve been influenced by the purposeful way of thinking about relationship that I discovered through the group therapy method known as psychodrama. I also have a particular interest in exploring the impact of systems, structures, power imbalances, and the legacy left to survivors of childhood adversity and trauma.
Contact
tui.taurua@gmail.com02041659668
Tui Taurua
Bicultural Lived Experience Professional Supervisor
Kia ora, my name is Tui Taurua (Ngati Rahiri, Ngati Kawa). My journey in mental health began with my first psychiatric admission in 1977, and over the past 30 years I have dedicated my life to supporting healing, restoration, and compassionate practice within the mental health sector. I am guided by the wisdom of my tupuna (ancestors), whose quiet strength continues to shape my commitment to this mahi.
As a Bicultural Lived Experience Professional Supervisor and Kaitiaki, I walk alongside practitioners to nurture safe, reflective, and culturally grounded spaces of supervision. My approach weaves together the principles of Hinengaro (mind and insight), Oranga (wellbeing), and Toa (resilience), offering support that honours both cultural identity and spiritual wellbeing.
I currently serve in a number of leadership roles across Aotearoa, including Chair (Te Hiringa Hauora / Noku Te Ao), Deputy Chair (Health and Disability Commission; Medical Council Whakawaha Community Advisory Group), Co-Chair (Collaborative Lived Experience Advisory Ropu), and Trustee (Collaborative Aotearoa Charitable Trust).
These roles reflect my ongoing commitment to elevating lived experience and strengthening equitable mental health outcomes.I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Bicultural Professional Supervision through Te Wananga o Aotearoa, and I am completing my Master’s in Applied Indigenous Knowledge (He Waka Hiringa). My research focuses on Indigenous, wairua-led approaches to healing, supervision, and relational practice.
I look forward to supporting practitioners in ways that are compassionate, culturally honouring, and grounded in both lived experience and wairua-led wisdom.
Danae Bernard
Service Manager
I'm the Service Manager for a youth mental health and addiction service in the South Waikato. I started my career in Education where I was a high school teacher for 13 years, then I spent some time working on my unique home business and then began my time in Health as the service manager of EaseUp.
Just like my home business where I construct skeletons for museums, pet memorials and art, I'm pretty unique. I'm a first generation New Zealander, multi ethnicity, neurodivergent non binary queer person in a same sex relationship. All this put together means I've seen and had some pretty diverse experiences and perspectives, and have built up a range of understandings of different types of people.
I'm particularly interested in Lived Experience, the value that people with Lived Experience can add to the world and how we can use those experiences to inform our practice. My other area of particular interest is leadership - I believe strongly that individuals with Lived Experience are currently under-represented and underutilized in leadership and decision making.
I offer my services as supervisor to help build strong non clinical practitioners, professionals and leaders.
Steve Carter
Ko Yr Wyddfa te maungaKo Mersey te awaKo Ingarihi, ko Airihi, ko Wera oku iwi pakehaKo Te Runaka ki Otautahi o Kai Tahu oku kaiako te reo me ona tikanga
Ko Waitaha toku kainga inaieneiKo tangata Tiriti au, ko tangata whaiora au
Ko Steve toku ingoa
I have worked for 35 years in the NGO sector in a variety of settings and roles, with a particular interest in community development, mental health, and social justice. I have been involved in Lived Experience leadership for much of that career and, in Aotearoa, have worked on the Like Minds, Like Mine and the Five Ways To Wellbeing campaigns for the Mental Health Foundation, as well as co designing and delivering the Rakau Roroa (LE Leadership) training for Changing Minds and the Kia Mataara (Peer Support) training programme for Pathways and Te Pou.
My focus has always been on values-based practice and my supervision/mentoring approach is rooted in strengths and solutions, empowering people to bring their best authentic selves to their mahi. Our work can be complex and challenging but it is the best job in the world.
I am passionate about assisting people to realise the many rewards of effective human service.
Sam Farr
Contactsamuel.c.farr@gmail.com
Practice Approach
I provide reflective practice and supervision grounded in lived experience, trauma-informed practice, and the Intentional Peer Support (IPS) framework. My supervision style focuses on connection, curiosity, mutual learning, and deepening reflective capacity. I support practitioners to stay aligned with peer values while navigating the realities of service settings.
My approach is strengths-based and relational. I draw on both my own expenence as a service user and my background leading and supporting peer teams in mental health and addiction settings I support supervisees to explore practice dilemmas, boundary questions, values alignment, self-care, and sustainability.
- How I Work
- Sessions are delivered online, allowing flexibility for kaimahi
- Non-hierarchical relational, and tailored to each person’s learning style and goals
- Prioritise mana-enhancing practice, cultural safety, and genuine partnership
- Warm, practical, and grounded in lived experience understanding.
- Professional Background & Training
- Lived Expenence consultant roles at regional and national levels
- IPS training and ongoing reflective practice
- Peer support, supervision and culturally responsive practice development
- Member of advisory and governance groups focused on lived experience leadership, equity, and practice integrity
- Supervision Offered
- One-to-one reflective practice
- Exploration of practice challenges through the Intentional Peer Support lens
- Support with role clarity, values integrity, boundanes. and identity as a peer practitioner
- Strengthening cultural safety, relational practice, and resilience within clinical or hybrid environments
- Space for self-development, resilience, and sustaining peer Identity within systems
- Relevant Experience
- Over a decade in health services, in NGO. specialist and primary care settings.
- Leadership roles including managing peer teams, delivering IPS training, and providing practice guidance and supervision.
- Consultant and adviser across a range of kaupapa. including trauma-informed care, co-design. Lived Experience leadership, and system improvement.
- Practical application of IPS pnnciples in individual practice, team development, and service design
Connection - Whanaungatanga
building trust, shared understanding, and relationship
Worldview - Whakaaro
honounng each person’s story, context, and cultural realities
Mutuality - Kotahitanga
walking together, sharing power, and learning alongside one another
Moving Towards - Whakamana
stepping toward what strengthens, uplifts, and grows us.
Grant Cooper
Grant has worked in the field of mental health over the past 20 years using his own experience of mental distress to inform his work. Grant is trained in Intentional Peer Support and has received supervision training. Grant approaches supervision as a space where issues can be explored and successes celebrated.
Grant can be contacted at grantcooper74@gmail.com for further information