Susan Preece has the lived experience of being a carer and is a Family Peer Support Worker at Orygen Youth Health – offering support to family members/carers of young people – including those with BPD – in the inpatient unit and community clinics.
Susan has been involved with the Making Sense of BPD sessions designed for families of young people at Orygen, and this year will be the Peer Moderator of a Moderated Online Social Therapy (MOST) called Kindred, which supports families of young people with BPD.
She was the first COPES (Carers Offering Peers Early Support) worker in the Eastern Region co-managed by Eastern Health and Mind, becoming the Carer Educator at Mind. She believes passionately in hope and recovery in mental health.