top of page

Our Approach

Lived Experience Led

Lived experience is the term used to specify knowledge that is gained by personal experience, as opposed to learned via study or employment. In mental health, lived experience relates to a personal experience of mental ill health and recovery. This may include diagnosis, service use (private or public, community or clinical, traditional, or alternative) and the impact of these experiences on their lives.

Personal lived experience includes the wide spectrum of mental health from chronic and clinically diagnosed illnesses, to traumatic and/or unexpected life events that affect well-being. It may also include human rights violations, discrimination as well as the strengths to survive these experiences.

We recognise and value other forms of lived experience including those related to sex, sexuality and gender identity, culture, ability, homelessness and alcohol and other drug use. Within our approach to peer work and definition of lived experience, we see these as intersecting and often additional to lived experiences of mental ill health and recovery, but not in place of.

Text +61 434 325 981

Email epayne@deepseas.com.au

Deep Seas Office Elizabeth East

By appointment only

In case of a crisis

Disclaimer

The content of this site is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing found on this website is intended to be a substitute for professional therapeutic, psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your use of this site does not create or constitute a therapist-client relationship with Deep Seas or El Payne. Deep Seas' website is not a therapy practice.

 

Alternatively, please refer to our Client Privacy Policy in the event you wish to access services with us.

Refer to the SA.GOV.AU website for a list of Crisis helplines and supports:

Or if you have a life-threatening or urgent situation, phone Triple Zero (000) and ask for the police, fire or ambulance depending on the type of emergency.

7_9_2022, 4_14_04 pm.png
7_9_2022, 4_14_04 pm 2.png

Deep Seas acknowledges the traditional owners of this land we live and work on; the Kaurna people, a land whose sovereignty remains un-ceded.

 

We acknowledge and value their diversity, histories, knowledge, Dreaming and continuing connections to land and country. 


We pay our respects to all First Nations people and their cultures; and to the Elders of past, present and emerging.

 

This land was and will always BE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.

progress-flag.jpg
images (1) (1).png

We pay our respects to those amongst the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex communities who have worked to support the improved health and well-being of their peers, children, families, friends, and country.

 

We honour the Elders in the diverse communities of which we are a part and we celebrate the extraordinary diversity of people’s bodies, genders, sexualities, and relationships that they represent.

​

We recognize the uniqueness and wholeness of each person and support movements that empower and center communities and identities that are marginalized.

StateBrand2_edited.jpg
disability-pride-flag-768x576.png

Deep Seas, 2023. Site by Wix.

bottom of page