Founded in recovery
Recovery Together was founded by Daniel Roy from a deeply personal understanding of what recovery can ask of a person.
Before creating Recovery Together, Daniel worked across mental health, counselling, education support, disability support, and workforce training. He understood recovery from a professional perspective; through frameworks, qualifications, practice models, and years of supporting others.
Then life changed.
Daniel experienced his own period of significant adversity, distress, loss, and psychological injury. Despite having the knowledge, skills, and professional background that should have made the system easier to navigate, he found himself facing the same painful realities many people experience: the loss of informal supports, the difficulty of finding the right formal supports, and the overwhelming feeling of trying to recover while also trying to survive.
In that season, recovery became more than a professional concept. It became lived, personal, and confronting.
It also became a teacher.
Through the setbacks, uncertainty, rebuilding, and slow return of hope, one truth became clear:
Life is not a journey we walk alone.
Recovery Together was born from that belief.
We exist to provide support that is practical, compassionate, trauma-informed, and grounded in real-world understanding. We know that recovery is not always linear. We know that people need more than services; they need connection, dignity, choice, safety, and people who are willing to walk alongside them without judgement.
Today, Recovery Together supports NDIS participants, veterans, families, workers, and organisations to build confidence, strengthen independence, and create lives with greater stability, connection, and meaning.
Who We Are
Recovery Together is an Aboriginal-owned Australian business delivering disability, mental health, psychosocial recovery, capacity-building, education and workforce-development services.
Based in the Western Plains of regional New South Wales, we support people and organisations across metropolitan, regional, rural and remote settings.
Our current service footprint includes NDIS-funded services across New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. Workplace training, professional development and tailored organisational programs are available throughout Australia through face-to-face, workplace-based and virtual delivery.
Recovery Together combines:
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direct frontline experience
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professional qualifications
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lived and living experience
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Aboriginal community and cultural experience
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regional service-delivery knowledge
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practical training and program development
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recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and person-centred practice.
Our work is grounded in a simple belief:
People should be listened to, respected and supported to build lives defined by identity, connection, choice, capability and hope.
Our Philosophy
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Lived and Living Experience
We value the expertise that comes from lived and living experience of mental health challenges, disability, neurodivergence, recovery, caring and community participation.
Our Commitment
We actively listen to and learn from participants, families, carers and peer workers to shape our services and organisational practice.
Our Impact
Participants experience supports that are authentic, relatable and informed by real-world understanding. Their voices influence the services they receive and contribute to ongoing improvement across our organisation.
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Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We celebrate the diversity of human experiences, identities and communities.
Our Commitment
We are committed to creating safe, affirming and welcoming environments for people of all cultures, backgrounds, sexualities, genders, faiths, abilities and neurotypes. We actively challenge stigma, discrimination and barriers to participation.
Our Impact
Participants feel respected, valued and accepted for who they are. They experience a genuine sense of belonging and can engage in supports without fear of judgement, exclusion or discrimination.
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Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice
We recognise neurological differences as natural forms of human diversity.
Our Commitment
We focus on strengths, accessibility, sensory safety, communication preferences and individual support needs rather than deficit-based approaches.
Our Impact
Neurodivergent participants experience services that affirm their identity, accommodate their needs and support them to thrive without pressure to mask, change or conform to neurotypical expectations.
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Personal Recovery and Self-Determination
We believe recovery is a unique and deeply personal journey.
Our Commitment
We honour each person's right to define their own goals, identity, relationships, aspirations and future. We support participants to build hope, exercise choice and control, and create lives that are meaningful to them.
Our Impact
Participants feel empowered to make decisions about their lives and supports, develop confidence in their own abilities, and pursue recovery pathways that reflect their values, strengths and aspirations.
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Choice, Empowerment and Supported Decision-Making
We uphold every person's right to make informed decisions about their life and supports.
Our Commitment
We provide accessible information, guidance, advocacy and supported decision-making that respects individual preferences, rights and autonomy.
Our Impact
Participants gain confidence to advocate for themselves, exercise choice and control, and make decisions that support their goals, wellbeing and independence.
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Compassion, Safety and Trauma-Informed Practice
We approach every interaction with empathy, curiosity, respect and understanding.
Our Commitment
We recognise the impact of trauma and prioritise emotional, psychological, cultural and physical safety. We seek to build trust through collaboration, transparency and consistency.
Our Impact
Participants feel safe, heard and respected. They develop trusting relationships that support healing, resilience and recovery.
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Collaboration and Community Connection
Recovery is strengthened through meaningful relationships and connected communities.
Our Commitment
We work collaboratively with participants, families, carers, peer workers, health professionals and community organisations to create coordinated and effective supports.
Our Impact
Participants experience stronger support networks, more connected services and increased opportunities for social inclusion and community participation.
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Cultural Safety and Aboriginal Leadership
We acknowledge the continuing strength, resilience and wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Our Commitment
We are committed to culturally safe practice and support self-determined, community-led approaches to social and emotional wellbeing.
Our Impact
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants experience culturally respectful supports that honour identity, community, culture, Country and healing.
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Flexibility and Responsiveness
We recognise that recovery, wellbeing and support needs can change over time.
Our Commitment
We adapt our services to respond to changing circumstances, fluctuating mental health, emerging goals and individual preferences.
Our Impact
Participants receive support that remains relevant, responsive and person-centred throughout different stages of their recovery journey.
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Evidence-Informed and Reflective Practice
We are committed to continuous learning, professional growth and reflective practice.
Our Commitment
We combine research, professional expertise and lived experience knowledge to deliver high-quality, recovery-oriented support.
Our Impact
Participants benefit from contemporary, effective and accountable services that continually evolve to meet emerging evidence, community needs and best-practice standards.