Rebecca Egan (she/they/we) is a Lived Experience qualitative researcher. As someone who has accessed the mental health system for almost two decades, her experiences within the system are instrumental to her desire to improve it. She is particularly interested on improving the way trauma and distress are conceptualised and responded to by the mental health system. She draws on her knowledge in Lived Experience community spaces - including spaces with those who live with complex trauma and dissociation as she does - alongside mad studies. She is also an artist who aims to explore the way creativity can be embedded and embodied within healing and integration.