About Alice

Built with warmth. Supporting people to be their best version of themselves.

A career built on building

For 35 years, I've worked across community services, disability, education and care, not as a consultant looking in, but as someone who builds services from the ground up, leads teams through complexity, and learns what actually works in real practice.

It started in 1989 as a young mum looking for something different. I opened childcare centres, established Aboriginal specific services, built disability support programs across regional Victoria and remote Queensland, and led family support, domestic violence, youth and out-of-home care initiatives. I've worked in Mount Isa, the Gulf Region, Swan Hill, and across remote NSW, places where services don't exist until someone builds them.

What I learned across all of that is this: qualifications and capacity levels are irrelevant to the core of what matters — supporting people to be their best version of themselves.

Why supervision and training matter

Across three decades in community services leadership, disability support and TAFE delivery, I've seen the same thing repeatedly: workers are doing extraordinary work in complex, high-demand environments and they're doing it without enough support.

I've also seen what happens when supervision and training are done well. Workers feel steadier. They make better decisions. They stay in the work longer. And most importantly, the people they support get safer, more thoughtful, more relational care.

That's why I developed the AWE Integrated Supervision Framework, the training programs, and everything else. It's not theory, it's built from what actually works when you're in the room with real people, real complexity, and real responsibility.

What I believe

Good supervision isn't about compliance or performance management. It's about safety for participants and for workers. When people feel supported, understood and safe, their nervous system settles. When their nervous system settles, they can think clearly and respond well.

Trauma-informed practice isn't something extra. It's ethical practice, the foundation of how we should work with people who've experienced harm or adversity.

And workers deserve to be supported as thoughtfully as the people they care for. Burnout doesn't happen because people aren't capable, it happens because they're not supported.

Now

I run AWE Training and Support from Central Victoria, delivering trauma-informed training, reflective supervision and workforce development to individuals, teams and organisations across community services, disability, education and care sectors.

I work across metropolitan and regional Victoria into NSW, South Australia and Queensland. I travel to deliver because I know that some of the most important work happens in places that are hardest to reach.

Everything I offer is grounded in real practice, informed by Community Workers Australia ethical principles and NDIS Practice Standards, and designed for the actual complexity that frontline workers and leaders navigate every day.