CAITIE GUTIERREZ
Mental Health Consumer Advocate, Lived Experience Consultant, Peer Support Worker, & Freelance Writer
CAITIE GUTIERREZ
Caitie Gutierrez is an award-nominated mental health consumer advocate, lived experience consultant, peer support worker, and freelance writer from Lenapehoking (New York) living on Gadigal Country (Sydney). As a bisexual and biracial Biawaisa (Two-Spirit) Irish Boricua (Puerto Rican) Taíno with complex PTSD and chronic illness, they draw on their lived experiences of complex trauma to explore topics like mental health, chronic illness, queerness, grief & loss, suicide, intergenerational trauma, ancestral healing, reconnecting to culture, and dismantling social media cults.
Honour Awards 2024
Caitie's writing was recognised with a nomination for the Honour Media Award in 2024. This award, presented by OUT@NBCUniversal, recognises individuals, organisations and initiatives whose service and achievements has provided leadership, achieved outstanding success and/or made a significant contribution to rainbow communities in media including print, broadcast, online and/or social media.
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Published Work
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Co-design
Caitie is passionate about co-design and has collaborated on multiple projects with organisations such as ACON, BEING Mental Health Consumers, Blue Knot Foundation, CanTeen, Mental Health Carers NSW, NSW Health, Switchboard Victoria, and more. Here are some examples of the outcomes of these collaborations.
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ABOLISH NXIVM
NXIVM is a cult that engages in sex trafficking, forced labour, racketeering, and unethical research. NXIVM has been infiltrating and co-opting the language of social justice movements via social media influencers, memetics, and activism. The below links are documentation of their cyberstalking tactics, hate & smear campaigns, and the mental health impact on victim-survivors of sexual abuse.
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Free Palestine
OH HEY, FOR BEST VIEWING, YOU'LL NEED TO TURN YOUR PHONE