Karen Noble – Lived Experience Advisor | Peer Mentor | Neurodiversity Advocate
Description
Big Ideals and Big Ideas.
Karen is a late diagnosed AuDHDer with co-occurring PTSD and Chronic health challenges. She comes from a multi-generational, multiply neurodivergent family. She has been raising and supporting 3 neurodivergent children (now adults) through many health, mental health and educational system challenges and has been advocating for change in education for over a decade.
Karen has had a long and varied career in the health sector both in diagnostic imaging and therapy in the public sector and in pathology collection in the private sector.
She has been a health and mental health consumer since her teen years and has been mis-handled, gaslit and mid-diagnosed. Her recent discovery of her own AuDHD neurology in 2022, at the age of 56, has transformed how she sees herself, her loved ones, the world, and how she lives. She is passionate about mentoring neurokin to empower others like her to take back control and rewrite the narratives of their own lives. She hopes to complete training in narrative therapy in 2025.
Karen is determined to give back, to contribute to the titanic shift needed to inform and educate the health and mental health sector about neurodiversity, inclusion and neuroaffirming approaches from her lived experience lens.…. from what she’s lived, and from what she’s learned.
In founding Noblekinnections, Karen is determined to contribute an understanding of the neurodiversity paradigm and systems trauma to the Education, Health and Mental Health, Allied Health and Aged Care industries, by sharing knowledge and experience, from a neuroaffirming mindset.
Business Details:
The mission of Noblekinnections is to contribute from lived and living experience, holding space for others to talk through life’s struggles, identify priorities, set goals, search for better understandings of the complexity of lived experience of trauma from a biopsychosocial perspective.
Karen works to empower you, as a peer, to re-write narratives that do not serve you and to seek the help that does. Whatever you face and wherever you are at, Noblekinnections offers Peer Mentorship, to collaborate and problem solve alongside you, step by step, or toe by toe, at your own pace.