What is Peer Support?

Peer supports offers a online or in person (depending on location) human-to-human space for people who want practical, emotional and reflective support while navigating life, identity, relationships, mental health, altered states, recovery, parenting, grief, change, or personal growth.

This support is not therapy, counselling, psychology, psychiatry, crisis care or medical advice. It is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical support. Instead, peer support sits alongside these services, offering lived-experience informed guidance, emotional containment, practical reflection, and a space to be seen and heard without judgement.

Peer support may be helpful if you are looking for someone who can meet you where you are, help you make sense of your experiences, support you to prepare for or integrate difficult life events, and assist you to identify your own needs, values, boundaries and next steps.

Sessions can include:

• General emotional and practical support

• Lived-experience informed reflection

• Support around altered states, integration and meaning-making

• Help preparing for appointments, conversations or life transitions

• Nervous system awareness and grounding practices

• Support with self-advocacy, boundaries and communication

• Connection to other appropriate services where needed

This is a non-clinical, peer-based service. Peer work and anyone working with you as a peer worker should not diagnose, treat mental illness, prescribe medication, provide crisis intervention or replace the role of your GP, psychologist, psychiatrist, counsellor or other health professional.