I’m a consultant clinical psychologist working for Livewell Southwest, in recovery services. This means I work with people who have experiences that get labelled as psychosis and I’ve been doing this for many years. I try and help people by exploring different ways of making sense of their experiences and developing different ways of coping with them. I’m particularly interested in how trauma can lead to these kinds of difficulties and how compassion can support recovery. I strongly believe that people who have had their own difficulties have an important role to play in supporting the recovery of others. I’ve worked alongside many people with lived experience of psychosis, to help people with similar experiences, their families and mental health workers learn about recovery. This has included co-writing a book: Living With Psychosis by Elina Baker and Melanie Attwater