About Rolling Recovery

About Rolling Recovery & The Founder

🌿 It started with survival — and grew into a purpose
Rolling Recovery began as a way to cope, create, and connect during some of the hardest times of my life. What started as drawings, podcasts, and support tools for my own kids has grown into a lived-experience led movement for accessible mental health, trauma-informed support, and community care.

🛠 What is Rolling Recovery right now?
Rolling Recovery is focused on building practical resources, peer-led education, and holistic counselling supports — especially for rural and under-served communities. I’m currently training as a Holistic Counsellor and Mental Health Practitioner (Cert IV, with ongoing study) so I can bring accessible, person-centred care to my local area. Alongside this, I create tools such as flashcards, posters, podcasts, and workshops that make mental health and wellbeing understandable and usable in daily life.

💡 The long-term vision
While the present focus is on counselling and education, our bigger dream remains:

Rolling Recovery hubs across Australia

Short- and medium-term accommodation through converted caravans, vans, or containers

Trauma-informed community spaces with art therapy, group support, and skill-building

Peer workers recognised and paid for their lived experience wisdom

🧠 Why we exist
Because people are falling through the cracks.
Because rural families deserve access to trauma-informed care.
Because neurodivergent kids, exhausted parents, and people in crisis need practical tools — now, not in years.

Who’s behind it?
I’m Narissa. A mum, a survivor, a student, and a lived-experience advocate. I’m studying counselling while raising three kids, building resources, and continuing to speak out about gaps in our mental health system. My partner Jake — a builder, jack of all trades, and fellow neurodivergent — shares this vision. Together we’re creating practical tools for today, while laying the foundations for the bigger Rolling Recovery hubs of tomorrow.

🤝 How you can support

Share our free tools, posters, and podcast Sick, Broke & Still Here

Follow our journey as we grow holistic counselling and mental health services in rural Victoria

Connect if you have ideas, partnerships, or support to offer