Vicki has worked in the field of mental health consumer advocacy for over eleven years.  She has worked on a national, state and local level representing consumer issues and ensuring significant changes to policy and mental health reform 

Her area of expertise covers a wide variety of areas.  Vicki has advocated for consumers in the community mental health sector and also acute services.  She has also worked in the non-government sector both as an educator and a staff member of the Mental Health Coordinating Council the peak body for non government organizations in NSW. 

Vicki has been a pioneer in the area of consumer advocacy training.  She was the first consumer training coordinator to be employed at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry and facilitated consumer advocacy courses from 1995 – 2001 that ensured the significant expansion of the consumer movement in NSW. 

Currently working at the Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Vicki is now involved in mentoring, training and further empowering advocates for consumer s of cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds 

Alongside her passionate involvement in consumer advocacy, Vicki is now focussing most of her energies on empowering consumers to take charge of their own healing process and initiating changes in the mental health sector of Australia to a recovery oriented service.