Who is SEAD

Meet Peta

SEAD provides supervision, training, and governance-informed consultancy for social workers and human services professionals working within complex and high-risk practice environments. My work focuses on supporting ethical decision-making, reflective practice, and sustainable professional development at both individual and organisational levels.

I founded SEAD from a genuine commitment to supporting social workers and human services professionals to grow, reflect, and sustain ethical, meaningful practice. Throughout my career, I have seen how skilled and values-led practitioners are often expected to carry complex, high-risk, and emotionally demanding work with limited opportunity for reflection, care, or ethical pause.

I am a social worker, supervisor, and educator with extensive experience across human services in Australia and the United Kingdom. My work has spanned frontline practice, clinical leadership, training, and governance across settings including domestic and family violence, gender-based violence, adult safeguarding, forensic mental health, crisis response, and advocacy. Working within these environments has shaped my understanding of risk, responsibility, power, and the realities practitioners navigate every day.

My own professional growth has been shaped by strong supervision and ethical leadership. Being well supervised allowed me to think more clearly, practise more ethically, and remain connected to my values in the midst of complexity. These experiences informed my move into supervision, teaching, and professional development, and continue to guide how I show up in my work.

SEAD—Support, Empower, Aspire, Develop—grew from my belief that sustainable practice is not built through individual resilience alone, but through collective care, critical reflection, and systems that support ethical decision-making. Underpinned by feminist and trauma-informed principles, SEAD exists to create spaces for thoughtful supervision, collective learning, and ethical guidance grounded in real-world practice.

At the heart of SEAD is a commitment to tending practice carefully—strengthening foundations, responding to risk with clarity and care, and supporting practitioners and organisations to grow in ways that are ethical, accountable, and sustainable over time.

SEAD exists to help create the conditions in which practitioners and organisations can grow—through meaningful supervision, collective reflection, and ethical guidance.

Experience Grounded in Practice

While SEAD is intentionally inclusive and responsive to diverse practice contexts, my experience includes particular depth in the following areas:

  • Supervision and clinical leadership within multidisciplinary teams supporting practitioners working in high-risk and emotionally demanding contexts

  • Refuge and crisis-response practice, including leadership of teams supporting women and children escaping domestic and family violence

  • Gender-based violence practice across community, statutory, and institutional settings, including domestic and family violence, sexual violence, and survivor-led, trauma-informed responses, with extensive experience in higher education contexts

  • Complex case management and risk assessment, including safety planning, ethical decision-making, and coordinated multi-agency responses within both established and pioneering practice contexts, including higher education

  • Senior clinical oversight and crisis decision-making, including on-call leadership and escalation support in high-risk and time-critical situations

  • Women’s mental health practice in inpatient settings, including acute, forensic, and personality disorder services, working within multidisciplinary teams to support ethical, coordinated care

  • Specialist advocacy and case management with survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking, including work across European legal, immigration, and criminal justice systems

  • Policy and procedure development, including trauma-informed, evidence-based policy writing aligned with governance, regulatory, and accountability requirements

  • Organisational governance and systems support, including risk management, audit readiness, and development of sustainable practice frameworks

  • Practice development and research, including research focused on practitioner experience and the design of innovative and first-of-their-kind practice models for gender-based violence case management in higher education

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