About Aspire Recovery Connection:
Lived Experience Peer Support
Our Philosophy: Healing Through Connection & Lived Experience
Welcome to Aspire Recovery Connection (ARC). We provide Lived Experience Peer Support in Adelaide, dedicated to helping people find their way back to self-belief and connection. Being a 100% lived experience team, we understand that it can be difficult to take that leap of courage and seek mental health help, especially when there are so many other services out there to choose from. But we believe that our lived experience approach is unique and has a truly positive impact on people’s lives. We focus on building real connections with our Adelaide community, meeting them where they are on their recovery journey and helping them rediscover their own self-belief.
Why Choose ARC? Our Unique Peer-Led Approach
At ARC, our team of peer workers is made up of people who have lived through their own mental health challenges and have come out on the other side, centred, curious about life and passionate about supporting others. We know first-hand what it’s like to navigate the sometimes confusing and overwhelming world of mental health care and the NDIS system here in Adelaide, and we’re here to share our knowledge and lived experience with you. We know that belief in each other and authentic community connection are transformative. We have this empathy to share, and we are ready to provide compassionate support on your healing journey.
Our Mental Health & NDIS Support Services
At Aspire Recovery Connection, we offer a range of services to support you on your journey towards recovery.
NDIS Recovery Coaching & Support Coordination
Our Psychosocial Recovery Coaching and Support Coordination services help you navigate the NDIS, ensuring that you have access to the supports and therapies that are important and meaningful to you. They are designed to help you get the most out of your NDIS plan and support your personal mental health recovery from mental and emotional distress.
Peer Mentoring & Core Supports
Our Lived Experience Peer Mentors provide Core Support services, supporting your mental and emotional wellbeing whilst helping you build community connection here in Adelaide, exploring new things, learning new life skills, and getting support with essential weekly tasks.
Counselling & Therapeutic Groups
We also offer professional counselling services (including NDIS Counselling) that provide a safe and supportive space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings and our Peer support therapeutic groups offer the opportunity to connect with others in Adelaide who understand what you’re going through.
Our Story: The Inspiration Behind Aspire Recovery Connection
Our founder Danni’s lived experience story is one that many of us can relate to, struggling with mental and emotional distress for many years and feeling a loss of hope for mental health recovery and a deep sense of loss of herself. For her, the turning point came when she stopped blaming herself for having a ‘mental illness’ and there being something inherently wrong with her and instead connected with peers who helped her to turn her efforts towards fostering self-compassion and acceptance.
A big part of this was forming meaningful and authentic connections with others who shared similar lived experiences and understood what she was going through. This peer connection experience was transformative, and it inspired Danni to start Aspire Recovery Connection (ARC) here in Adelaide so that others can find hope and be supported along their emotional healing journey by being in authentic and compassionate connection with themselves and others.
Are you looking for a supportive community?
Our peer support community in Adelaide is a welcoming and inclusive space where you can connect with others who understand what you’re going through from shared lived experience. We believe that by sharing our experiences and supporting each other, we can all achieve greater healing and mental wellbeing.
So if you’re looking for a supportive and understanding community to help you on your mental health recovery journey, we invite you to join us at Aspire Recovery Connection (ARC). Our peer team is here for you every step of the way.
We authentically connect and hold space for our community to heal.
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Aspire Recovery Connection acknowledges Aboriginal people as the first Australians, traditional owners of South Australia, and respect their ongoing living and spiritual relationship with the land and sea. We respect and celebrate the many Aboriginal peoples and lands across the state.
We also acknowledge that past government policies contributed to the marginalisation, disempowerment, breakdown of connection to country, removal of Aboriginal children from their family, loss of land and income, and loss of culture and language of Aboriginal South Australians.
