Straight-Shooting Australian
Robyn Priest is a straight‑shooting Aussie with a gift for cutting through noise and getting to what matters, people. A known nonconformist, Robyn has spent decades challenging the way the world thinks about mental health, recovery, and lived expertise.
As co‑founder of Robyn Priest LIVE YOUR TRUTH, Robyn has helped transform peer support education across the globe. Their work is rooted in the core values of peer support; hope, dignity, mutuality, choice, and authentic human connection, and they’ve become one of the most trusted voices in the field.
Internationally recognized as a premier expert, Robyn contributed to the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s landmark report Making the Case for Peer Support, a foundational document that helped shape national understanding of lived experience leadership. In 2016, they received the iNAPS Lifetime International Achievement Award for their impact on peer support worldwide.
Often described as “the horse whisperer for mental health advocates,” Robyn has an uncanny ability to connect with people, simplify complex ideas, and make learning feel human again. Their speaking style blends honesty, humor, and heart, moving audiences from surviving to thriving, and reminding them that recovery is not a theory but a relationship and a possibility.
Robyn Priest: lived expertise, delivered with clarity, courage, and truth.
What Robyn Offers
Training That Makes
Mental Health Human Again
Robyn’s training isn’t about memorizing models or ticking boxes. It’s about learning how to show up — with dignity, empathy, and genuine human connection.
Every workshop is built on the core values of peer support: hope, mutuality, authenticity, cultural humility, and the belief that people thrive when they’re trusted to lead their own recovery.
Robyn teaches practical skills with straight talk, humor, and lived expertise. Participants walk away not just informed, but transformed — ready to support others with clarity, compassion, and confidence.
Build Systems That Honour People.
Organizations call Robyn when they want more than a program — they want a culture shift.
Robyn helps teams design, strengthen, and sustain peer support services that reflect the true values of recovery: choice, dignity, trust, and authentic connection. Robyn's consulting is collaborative, practical, and grounded in lived experience.
Whether you’re launching a new peer support initiative or improving an existing one, Robyn brings clarity, courage, and a deep understanding of what makes peer support work — for people, families, and entire systems.
Speaking That Cuts Through the Noise
Robyn Priest doesn’t “give talks.” They spark shifts — fast, funny, and straight to the point.
With lived expertise and decades of global experience, Robyn turns complex mental health ideas into clear, human truths people actually remember. Their message is simple: people have resilience, and peer support helps them tap back into it through connection, dignity, and shared humanity.
Robyn has spoken to Peer Supporters, clinicians, leaders, corporations, and major conferences across 11 countries. Audiences walk away energized, challenged, and ready to rethink how they show up for people.