LocationACT, NSW, NT, North QLD, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Event Date30 Sep 2025 | 12:30 PM-13:30 PM [GMT+10:00]
CPD Hours1 hr
CPD CategoryCategory 3: Professional Identity
OrganiserBranch Services
Event FormatLive Online
Practice & careerMental Health
LocationACT, NSW, NT, North QLD, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Event Date30 Sep 2025 | 12:30 PM-13:30 PM [GMT+10:00]
CPD Hours1 hr
CPD CategoryCategory 3: Professional Identity
OrganiserBranch Services
Event FormatLive Online
Practice & careerMental Health
Hearing voices can be a deeply distressing and isolating experience, often misunderstood or misrepresented.
Whether described as psychosis, spiritual experiences, intrusive thoughts, or communication with unseen beings, these experiences are more common than many realise, and they carry a wide range of personal meaning.
In this lunchtime webinar, part of our Day in the Life series, Accredited Social Worker Louisa Pearce shares what it’s like to work with people navigating these states.
Louisa brings a unique perspective shaped by both professional practice and lived experience.
Louisa works in a niche area of mental health, supporting people who have experienced psychosis, voice-hearing and psycho-spiritual distress. Louisa's clients typically have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, dissociative disorders or PTSD.
Louisa's work is somewhat unusual because she has the lived experience of psychosis, hearing voices, and recovery from schizophrenia. She fosters a relationship with clients which feels relaxed and equal, and which respects their worldviews and beliefs.
Louisa is trained in Social Work, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Embodied Processing Therapy, Intentional Peer Support (IPS), the Hearing Voices Approach, Voice Dialogue, and Trauma-Informed Care.
🗓 Date: 30 September 2025
🕧 Time: 12.30 – 1.30 PM AEST
📍 Location: Online via Zoom, link to be provided on the day of the webinar
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