Matt Brittain
Lived Experience Team Manager
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Name:
Matt Brittain
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Position:
Lived Experience Team Manager
Matt Brittain is Emerge Aotearoa’s Lived Experience Team Manager. He has worked in the social services sector in various roles for over 15 years. He is passionate about supporting people to improve their well-being. Matt has expertise in service design, project management, research, data analysis, and facilitation. In addition to working in leadership roles such as senior/principal advisor, Matt has also worked as a text-based counsellor for 1737 and clinically as an intern psychologist in a hospital setting. A career highlight was setting up the management, operations, and service design of a newly built youth rehabilitation centre in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
Matt has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology and minoring in German. He also has a Masters in Health psychology and his thesis involved developing and delivering a clinical intervention to help people reduce problematic sugar consumption.
Matt has lived experience as a person accessing services in psychiatric hospitals, crisis respite, transitional housing, and community mental health. Matt draws on experience as a person accessing services, a designer of services, and a person delivering services.