Tanya Kretschmann – Brisbane
Tanya is a passionate Lived Experience consultant, Speaker and Peer Mentor/ Worker. Tanya is currently employed as a Senior Peer Mentor with Eating Disorders Queensland, and is employed in an indentified Lived Experience role with the Queensland Mental Health Tribunal. As a Lived Experience Leader, Tanya represents mental health and eating disorder consumers on numerous local, state, national and international committees, and is dedicated to enhancing consumer-centred, recovery-oriented, compassionate, collaborative and integrated health care through policy and system advocacy, research, and service design, deliver and evaluation. Finally, Tanya is currently the Queensland Consumer Representative on the National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum (NMHCCF) and is dedicated to supporting the inclusion of lived and living experience perspectives of mental health concerns in national mental health reform and development agendas.
Tanya was a QLEWN Roundtable Member before accepting the position as QLEWN Project Officer in August 2020.