Mary’s services
making recovery-based services achievable

+ assessment of services for recovery orientation - drawing on service user perspective, broad experience, sound theory and pragmatic solutions:
> assessing services for recovery orientation
> reporting on the services strengths and deficits
> recommending improvements to services
> supporting services to implement improvements

+ research, analysis and writing creating narratives, discussion papers, reports and resource documents that clarify concepts and solve practical problems

+ workshops and talks that challenge and entertain, including the following:
> Imagining a recovery-based service system
> Understanding and supporting the process of recovery
> Models and methods for anti-discrimination work
> The changing roles of service users in mental health
> Tools for reducing compulsory interventions
> Understanding the subjective experience of madness

+ flexible assistance tailored to client’s needs:
> good communication with clients
> adaptable packages
> short term or ongoing projects
> available to work internationally
> reliable results

+ available to work with organisations who want to clarify their recovery vision or create better pathways to get there

Mary’s background
service user, international leader, recovery expert

+ used mental health services in New Zealand, and have worked to make a difference to the way people and services respond for over 20 years

+ initiated the service user movement in New Zealand and was the first chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

+ worked at all levels in the mental health sector – grass roots self-help and advocacy, funding, consultancy, as a New Zealand mental health commissioner, and advisor to the United Nations

+ writes and speaks internationally about the perspectives of people with major mental health problems, recovery in individuals and systems, service user leadership, human rights and anti-discrimination