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Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs)
Therapy, Supervision, and Systems Transformation Across Australia

Where care feels human again

LEXs is an independent, award-winning practice led by Michael Elwan, an Accredited Social Worker, state and national advisor, and PhD researcher. We work with individuals, practitioners, and organisations across Australia, bringing together lived and living experience, senior management expertise, and considered strategic thinking to make mental health and suicide prevention care more compassionate, inclusive, and effective.

Michael Elwa

​​​Recognition

LEXs and its founder, Michael Elwan, have been recognised through national and state honours in social work, mental health, suicide prevention, and multicultural leadership.​

🏆Winner - 2025 AASW National Excellence Awards (Social Worker of the Year) Australia’s highest individual honour in social work.

🏆Winner - 2026 Suicide Prevention Australia LiFE Award (Outstanding Contribution), Western Australia

🏆Winner - 2026 Suicide Prevention Australia LiFE Award (Priority Populations), Western Australia - Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs)

🏆Winner - 2026 Western Australian Multicultural Awards (Outstanding Individual Achievement Award)

🏆Winner - 2025 WA Mental Health Awards (Lived Experience Impact & Inspiration)

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🏅Finalist - 2025 WA Multicultural Awards (Sir Ronald Wilson Leadership Award)

🏅Finalist - 2025 R U OK? Barbara Hocking Memorial Awards (Conversation Leader) ​​​​

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Why People Work With Me

People often come to me when they want a space that feels thoughtful, culturally aware, and grounded in real experience.
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My work draws on:
• lived and living experience of caregiving, migration, and suicide bereavement
• clinical and community mental-health practice
• senior leadership experience across mental-health services
• national advisory roles shaping policy and workforce development
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This combination allows me to support both personal healing and systems change.
Michael helped me untangle the overwhelming anxiety I was carrying every day. His calm, practical strategies gave me real tools to face my fears - and for the first time in years, I feel like I can breathe again.

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