Meet our mob of passionate support workers

Support Worker

As a professional musician for most of my life, my main aim was to take people away from their everyday problems while they were in my presence.

I wanted to make a meaningful difference to people outside the forum of the brief entertainment window.

Joining You Me We Plus was the perfect opportunity for me to achieve that aspiration. I feel that working with the team has presented the perfect way to make that difference.

SIL Team Leader

Psychosocial Recovery Coach

Support Worker

I am a local mum who lives and works in the Midlands area. I am passionate about my community and inspired by people's strengths and dreams.

I have lived experience of the impacts of AOD/Trauma/Mental Health and Family Violence, and more importantly, how hope and recovery can be achieved through community.

Outside work and study, I love animals, especially dogs, so I three of my own! I love to cook, garden, eat, laugh, and spend time with me family.

Team Leader

Support Coordinator

Psychosocial Recovery Coach

Support Worker

I originally hail from Gnowangerup in the SW of WA.

Over the years, I've worked primarily as a community mental health support worker with various agencies around Perth.

In my spare time I get into nature and the outdoors, exploring new places and trying out different activities like hiking. This often includes grandchildren but just hanging out with them, plus other family and friends is the most enjoyable.

Support Worker

I started working with You Me We Plus after completing a Cert 4 in Mental Health and work placement through this amazing company. Being new to this line of work I was unsure if I had what it takes to be able to offer value to an already amazing team of people, but with valuable support and encouragement, I feel I am slowly making a difference in supporting people through many walks of life!

A bit about me: I enjoy watching good movies, reading horror books and have a passion for animals!

I am also the proud Mum of 3 beautiful children who have opened my eyes to the importance of diversity and acceptance, supporting them through the trials and tribulations of Autism. I feel I had the knowledge and empowerment to support others, therefore this has taken me down the path of mental health. 

Life takes us down many paths and I can't wait to see where this one takes me!

Regional Team Leader Mandurah

Support Worker

I love community and people...

Live in Mandurah by the sea with my dog Feebs, 

Have enjoyed working in aged care, and recently completed cert 4 in mental health in Armadale, loved it.

This has been a dream come true and a wonderful opportunity to work along side people, giving back into community after receiving life changing support in my own recovery,  after years of lived experience in AOD issues.

So grateful to be apart of this amazing mob of caring, kind people.

Support Worker

I have an ambiguous outlook (nothing's impossible) when helping people and enjoy the challenge. People's wellbeing and safety is what's most important to me. Always fishing for a smile or a laugh and looking to put a fun spin on things. Genuinely love what I do and stoked to be part of our awesome team.

I'm also pretty big on music. I used to play in bands for the better part of a decade and still pick the guitar up whenever I get the itch. I'm also a keen sports fanatic. Played basketball for over 20 years and I still love to hoop today.

Support Worker

I  love to exercise...particularly, running outdoors with my little Staffy dog Quin (although she might disagree lol), and the mental benefits that it comes with. My interests also include riding horses, car racing, painting and I’d never go a day without listening to music (in particular Taylor Swift). I'm also studying Psychology at UWA (undergraduate) and soon will be finished. 

Team Leader

Support Worker

Born and raised farm girl from a small southern town in NZ. I started chasing the Aussie dream in 2016 with my young family.

I enjoy the outdoors, arts and crafts and all things sports.  In my spare time I volunteer as a tutor for a haka group (Maori cultural performing arts) and enjoy spending time with family and friends. 

With a give it a go attitude, I have trialled my hand at many a trade over my employment history and in 2020 I finished up cheffing to take a year off.

This gave me time to reflect, and I found myself asking, did I really want to go back to a grinding job that served no real purpose other than paying the bills!?  Heck no!

I have always had a passion for helping others and that's exactly what I want to do! I want to use my life experience to help others, I want to help make a difference.

In 2021 pursuing my career in the industry, I joined the team at YOU ME WE PLUS. 

Having lived experience with mental health, AOD, PTSD family and domestic violence, becoming a support worker was the best choice I ever made, alongside the team at YMW+ I get to help others every day. 

There is no greater joy nor reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life. 

Administration

Art Facilitator

Support Worker

After moving from New Zealand 20 years ago, Australia has been wonderful to me.  My two teenage children were born here, and I make up the other half of Tim.

From an early age, I enjoyed the creative arts, and today I paint large florals or portraits from my kitchen art studio at home; I don't need to look far; inspiration is all around me.

There is no poverty of kindness and compassion when I'm at work; it's a way of giving back.  I love being a support worker.

Manager

Support Worker

35 years of lived experience has given me the passion to give back to an industry that has allowed me to be where I am today. 

I am very passionate about what I do and have gained some qualifications to compliment this. 

In 2017, I became a qualified counselor, and in 2019 I became a registered counselor.

I also have a Diploma in Community Services and a Diploma in Mental Health.

Team Leader

Support Worker

I am the proud mum of two grown-up children who I enjoy spending time with.

During the weekends and holidays, my husband and I enjoy caravanning and camping around Australia with friends. 

When I became a support worker, my children had left home, and I worked as a volunteer for six months with people with disabilities. I felt this work was fulfilling, so I pursued this path further. 

I enjoy being with people and making a difference. I feel like I’m everyone’s mum

Director

I was brought up right (thanks to my mum), but from the wrong side of the tracks in Christchurch, New Zealand.

From an early age, I was acutely aware that not all people are treated as equals, whether because of the colour of their skin or how much their families earned. 

Social justice is the driver of my soul, my wife and family, my bedrock, and just for kicks, I like working on JDM cars!