The Peer Practice

🌟 Meet Mel! 🌟

Mel is officially taking on referrals across the Mandurah and Peel region! 💚

Bringing deep compassion, lived experience, and a serious taste for adventure (including over 3,500 skydives! 🪂), Mel is here to walk alongside you as you build confidence, reframe challenges, and strengthen your wellbeing.

✨ What Mel offers:

💙 Real lived experience: A grounded, zero-judgment space with a Peer Worker who truly gets it.

💙 Empowered recovery: Support focused entirely on your goals, your pace, and your autonomy.

💙 NDIS-friendly: Capacity-building support welcoming NDIS participants.

💙 Local connection: Proudly supporting Mandurah and surrounding areas.

Ready to connect with a Peer Worker in your corner?

📩 Reach out to The Peer Practice to learn more or make a referral.

🌟 Supporting you while you support others. 🌟

Peer work is deeply rewarding, but it can also be challenging. You pour your energy, your heart, and your lived experience into helping others navigate their hardest moments—so who is holding space for you?

At The Peer Practice, we believe in backing our workforce. Our team of professional, experienced reflective supervision mentors is here to help you reflect on your practice, process the challenges, and come out stronger, wiser, and grounded in your strengths. 💡✨

Meet our incredible mentoring team:
🔹 Meegan
🔹 Milly
🔹 Jaan
🔹 Scott
🔹 Nathalie

You can check out their full profiles on the Peer Practice website! (Link in bio)

How it works:
🕒 1-hour sessions tailored just for you.
💻 Delivered via Microsoft Teams so you can join from the comfort of your home or workplace.
💼 Flexible payment: Sessions can be covered by your workplace, or if you’re funding it yourself as an industry worker, they are tax deductible!
👥 Team & Group Options: Want to set up workplace group supervision? We facilitate group sessions, too!

Ready to invest in your own practice and well-being?

Reach out to us via our website to enquire and sign up today. Because doing this life-changing work means you deserve to be supported just as fiercely as you support everyone else. 🤝🌱

Our thoughts on the recent changes to the NDIS...

Like many people across the disability community, we have been closely following the recently passed changes to the NDIS and considering what they may mean for participants, families, carers and the people who support them.

We recognise that the NDIS is not a perfect system. There are genuine issues that need to be addressed, including fraud, exploitation, inappropriate charging and practices that do not deliver meaningful outcomes for participants. We support reform that strengthens the integrity and long-term sustainability of the Scheme.

At the same time, we are concerned about the potential impact that reductions or changes to supports may have on the people the NDIS was created to support.

At The Peer Practice, we see every day what the right support can make possible.

Support can help someone build confidence and independence. It can enable connection with community, participation in everyday life and progress towards personal goals. It can also provide essential support to families and carers who are often carrying significant responsibilities themselves.

These supports are not simply line items in a budget. Behind every plan, funding category and policy decision is a person and a life.

We understand the need to ensure the NDIS remains sustainable for future generations. We also believe sustainability and participant wellbeing must be considered together.

When supports are reduced, the underlying need does not necessarily disappear. There is a very real risk that responsibility instead shifts to families, carers, health services, community organisations and, ultimately, back to the person with disability.

We welcome stronger measures to address fraud, exploitation and poor-quality service provision within the NDIS. Participants deserve a system in which funding is used responsibly and genuinely contributes to their goals, independence and quality of life.

But as these reforms are implemented, we believe the voices and experiences of people with disability must remain central to the conversation.

For our participants and families who may be feeling uncertain about what these changes mean for them: we see you, we hear your concerns, and we will continue to advocate for support that is person-centred, meaningful and grounded in dignity, choice and connection.

Reforming the system should ultimately make it stronger - not make the people it exists to support feel less secure within it.

Three months ago, I became a mum. 💛

Since then, I've learned that:

👶 Babies have impeccable timing when it comes to interrupting hyperfocus.

😴 Sleep deprivation makes ADHD extra interesting.

🧠 You can forget what day it is while somehow remembering exactly which nappy brand leaks the least.

🎵 And 00s dance music is surprisingly effective for boosting your mood during the fifth load of washing for the week.

I've just published a blog sharing my honest experience of the first three months of motherhood with ADHD. It's a reflection on the challenges, the overwhelm, the love, the support I've needed, and the things that have helped me navigate one of the biggest life changes I've ever experienced.

Some days I've felt completely capable.

Some days I've cried in the shower.

Most days I've done both.

If you're a parent, expecting a baby, have ADHD, support someone who does, or simply enjoy honest stories about life's messy and beautiful moments, I'd love for you to have a read.

🔗 https://www.peerpractice.com.au/sharing-our-stories/adhd-and-motherhood


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Three months ago, I became a mum. 💛

Since then, I've learned that:

👶 Babies have impeccable timing when it comes to interrupting hyperfocus.

😴 Sleep deprivation makes ADHD extra interesting.

🧠 You can forget what day it is while somehow remembering exactly which nappy brand leaks the least.

🎵 And 00s dance music is surprisingly effective for boosting your mood during the fifth load of washing for the week.

I've just published a blog sharing my honest experience of the first three months of motherhood with ADHD. It's a reflection on the challenges, the overwhelm, the love, the support I've needed, and the things that have helped me navigate one of the biggest life changes I've ever experienced.

Some days I've felt completely capable.
Some days I've cried in the shower.
Most days I've done both.

If you're a parent, expecting a baby, have ADHD, support someone who does, or simply enjoy honest stories about life's messy and beautiful moments, I'd love for you to have a read.

🔗 https://www.peerpractice.com.au/sharing-our-stories/adhd-and-motherhood

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Surviving the Newborn Stage with ADHD: My First Three Months as a Mum — The Peer Practice An honest account of the first three months of motherhood with ADHD, including sleep deprivation, hyperfocus, emotional regulation, self-care, support, and the surprising strategies that helped me navigate life with a newborn.

🧠✨ We’re heading to the WA Mental Health Conference!✨🧠

The Peer Practice team is so excited to be attending the WA Mental Health Conference this Tuesday and Wednesday... and even more excited to be presenting!

On Wednesday, our very own Jaan and Milly will be taking the stage to deliver our Busy Brain Reset workshop; a practical, accessible approach to mindfulness designed for brains that don’t always find traditional mindfulness so… mindful. 🙃

We’ve had such incredible feedback on The Busy Brain Reset workshop so far, and we can’t wait to share it with the wider WA mental health community.

Where will you find us?
📍 Golden Ballroom South
📅 Wednesday
⏰ 11:15am–12:15pm

If you’re attending the conference, come along, say hello and please join us for The Busy Brain Reset. 💛

We can’t wait to see you there!

You can find the full conference program here: https://bit.ly/3RUjF8H

An informed participant is an empowered participant. 💜

With recent conversations putting a spotlight on NDIS spending and invoices, our Leadership Team want to remind everyone of a simple truth: asking questions isn’t being difficult—it’s how you protect your funding and build trust. Here is the bottom line:

✨ Transparency builds trust: You deserve to feel comfortable asking providers to explain how your funding is being used.

✨ Nuance matters: While some charges reflect the genuine costs of safe, quality care, it’s completely understandable why people are looking closer at their invoices right now.

✨ Questions = Advocacy: Asking questions helps protect your funding, exercise choice, and keep the sector accountable.

At the end of the day, participants and providers want the exact same thing: NDIS funding used responsibly to help people live meaningful lives. 💜

Want to read the full story? Head to our website resources and stories page at the link in our bio! 🔗✨

🔥 The Fire and the Flood: Navigating the Epic Intensity of RSD 🌊

Two years ago, I received an ADHD diagnosis that finally helped me make sense of something that had shaped my life for decades: Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD). For me, RSD isn't just being sensitive to rejection. It's the stomach drop when someone doesn't reply. It's convincing yourself you've done something wrong when there is no evidence. It's feeling every emotion so deeply that it can become overwhelming.

In my latest blog, I share my personal experience of living with RSD, the challenges, the heartbreak, the healing, and the lessons I've learned about self-compassion along the way.
This piece is for anyone who:
💛 Feels things deeply
💛 Lives with ADHD or suspects they might
💛 Struggles with self-doubt or overthinking
💛 Loves someone who experiences RSD
💛 Needs a reminder that they are not "too much"

One of the biggest things I've learned is this: "The first person who needs to want you, is you." If you've ever felt rejected before rejection even happened, I hope this story helps you feel a little less alone. 👉 Read the blog here: https://www.peerpractice.com.au/sharing-our-stories

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