Having spent several years as a mental health service user, Sam now works as a lived experience practitioner in the NHS and a director at GBL, aiming to co-produce the compassionate services and relational approach they wish they’d been offered initially. In practice, Sam is very pleased to split their time between working with Enabling Town Slough in Berkshire and a complex emotional difficulties team in Cornwall.

Sam enjoys sharing in nature, building inclusive LGBTQ+ initiatives, baking (badly), and a very long commute.