Hi, I’m Sarah Maxwell (she/her) and I am a social worker with over 16 years’ experience of working in the disability sector. I value difference and believe in providing a neurodiversity affirming approach.  I acknowledge that I have much to learn and so I will take the lead from you and your family members, who I recognise as experts in your world.

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I work across the lifespan and provide a trauma informed, developmental approach to service delivery, focussing on strengths and solutions. I enjoy helping individuals with a disability address interpersonal or mental health challenges so they can achieve a better quality of life. I also enjoy educating the sector and wider community on ways they can change and adapt, to be more disability affirming and inclusive.

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For most of my career I have worked with adolescents and adults. I love helping young people recognise their unique strengths, interests and abilities to help them form a positive identity. I do this by encouraging clients to challenge the social construct of normalcy, to set their own term of reference and celebrate diversity and difference. I provide non-judgemental support and facilitate a process that can allow clients to choose their identity and reject those forced on them.

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My work has taken me to remote and very remote communities across Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory and around regional NSW. I am passionate about providing support to those who too often go without, due to geographical obstacles. I can offer face to face services to anyone living on Bundjalung country including communities across Northern NSW and Qld border communities or video sessions to anywhere in Australia.

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