Shannon Calvert

Shannon is a lived experience professional, having experienced a longstanding eating disorder. Her expertise lies in collaborating alongside clinicians, researchers, and organizations that champion wellbeing through education, training, and supervision. Advocating for person-centered, recovery-oriented, and integrated best practices, she is a Consumer and Peer Consultant for a large Health Service in WA, and a Lived Experience Educator. Shannon has presented at national and international conferences on the importance of compassion in treatment interventions; consumer and carer engagement in the design of policy, and education; as well as her lived experience of an eating disorder and trauma.