Stigma in Addiction and Mental Health

Elisa Buggy is a Board Director with Mike Carroll for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and is the CEO of West CASA (Centre Against for Sexual Assault).

Elisa grew up on Palawa Country, also known as Tasmania.  She loves meeting new people, cooking, her couch, and her family - and she also seems to be a perpetual student.  

She is deeply committed to making the world a better place - at least in the way that she sees it - and is magnetised towards the proverbial 'too hard baskets' (a term she finds both deeply offensive and all too prevalent). 

Elisa loves building community - especially where it's lacking - and is always up for a philosophical meander through the meaning of life.  

Oh!  And she's also a Social Worker with an MBA who is plodding slowly through a law degree.  

She sits on multiple community boards and is very proud to be leading West CASA in these fascinating times!

Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health host Mike Carroll is a registered counsellor with The Australian Counselling Association and Founder and CEO of MC Counselling, a global on-line Addiction and Mental Health Counselling Service. He is also an elected Director of the Board for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and has a lived experience of addiction and mental health. Mike believes everybody deserves to live their best life and helps clients remove addiction and heal poor mental health.
https://linktr.ee/mikecarroll

Jess Gaddes, a Lived Experience Mentor/coach/advocate with 6 years addiction free from Ice/meth use. 

Jess has a Cert IV in Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD), and is currently studying a Diploma in Mental Health. Jess is a passionate woman with a vast array of experience when it comes to navigating the health system and meeting the needs of our most vulnerable as she, herself has been there and come and out the other side. Jess is a strong believer in prevention and early intervention, and runs social media platforms www.instagram.com/chance2change and www.instragram.com/addiction_doesnt@discriminate  which focus on creating hope and change for current and future generations. 
 
 Executive Producer - Jared Aviet
 and VoiceOver - Nathan Gardner.
 
 Live your best life, you only have one.
 
 Mike and Jess xxx