Renai Buchanan
Renai Buchanan
How do you describe your Peer Supervision practice?
Renai’s Peer Supervision practice is grounded in humanity, mutuality, critical reflection, and deep exploration. Grounded in Lived Experience, Renai fosters collaborative spaces where multiple truths can be unpacked with curiosity and compassion. Her approach is adaptive, relational, and trauma-aware—balancing accountability with compassion.
Their supervision style is adaptive, co-created, and deeply reflective, fostering a safer space for Peers to explore challenges, strengths, and systemic barriers. Renai blends structure with creativity, incorporating diverse tools such as nature, Lego, and craft.
With over 15 years in Peer roles across mental health, disability, queer, and advocacy spaces, Renai brings rich experience in systemic change and deep reflective practice. Whether one-on-one or in group co-reflection, they create a space for role clarity, social justice, and peer identity exploration. Sessions are guided by curiosity, multiple truths, and shared power, ensuring meaningful growth and skill-building.
What information regarding your Peer Work, Lived Experience, and/or areas of interest do you want Peer Workers to know?
I have been in Peer roles for nearly 2 decades, in mental health, sexual health and LGBTI spaces. My roles have been in grassroots, peer organisations and clinical services. Holding several roles including peer support, peer education, team leadership, management and advocacy.
Queer, fat, neurodivergent, disabled, chronically ill and reasonably mad human with a passion for social justice, community and fostering authentic deep and meaningful connection.
When I am not working, learning or existing within various LE spaces you can find me with my wife & tiny humans surrounded by Lego, lullabies and laundry.
What other information is relevant for Peer Workers to know?
I currently have limited capacity
I offer a free 15-minute meet & greet to see if we are a suitable fit.
I will customise quotes based on the specifics, including modality, location and the number of people.
Individual Supervision starts from $150p/hr
Group Supervision from $220p/hr
If you are self-funding or underemployed, please reach out - I am happy to offer a sliding scale to ensure access to support