Our Staff

1:1 Peer Supporter

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I’m Ah’Shah. My name has many meanings (hope, hawk, life alive) across cultures. I’m 43, witchy, multi-passionate, originating from Mount Talol, WA and currently reside in ATX. I delight in dance, journaling, and visioning slow travel.

Like you, I am someone who has survived many challenges. Received my first training to support others in 2012. Been evolving in this work since. 

Overall, I am in a continual process of learning to be more myself (whole & sovereign) in community with those who seek the same. 

1:1 Peer Supporter and Co-Facilitato

for Crip Club 

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 I am an artist and musician and channel both of these creative outlets for healing and catharsis. I am also a houseplant enthusiast, tarot reader, and cat parent to Kiki. I have experience with invisible and visible disability, and I am an ambulatory wheelchair user (using my wheelchair about 90% of the time). As a person with moderate ME/CFS I am primarily house-based. My favorite wellness tools are radical rest and pacing.

1:1 Peer Supporter and Facilitator for Disability (Is Not a Bad Word), Virtual Social Meetups, Disabled Babes Book Club, and If You Give a Trans Person a Book Club

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Beck DeTrempe is a Queer Non-Binary Disabled Person living in Orlando, Florida. Beck is also the founder of Basically Wonderful, an organization that aims to create accessible peer-led spaces that are welcoming to Disabled and LGBTQ+ communities, and has partnered with Peer Support Space to create the spaces that they now facilitate. 

1:1 Peer Supporter and Co-Facilitator for Lotus

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I am cisgender, Gay, and Vietnamese Individual. I am a survivor of generational trauma and the child of immigrant parents. I am comfortable supporting people with shared lived experiences and similar identities as myself. Every individual knows what is best for themselves; I want to encourage everyone to advocate and speak to their own personal needs.  

1:1 Peer Support and Co-Facilitator for Be Kind to Your Mind, Digital Communal Gatherings, Disability (Is Not a Bad Word), and Disability Socials 

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Before I started working with Peer Support Space (PSS), I was a participant of some of the in-person groups that PSS had started offering in 2019. I became a peer group facilitator at the beginning of 2020, hosting daily virtual support groups throughout the height of the Pandemic, and currently I continue to hold compassionate space for folks. Since 2020, I’ve also become a co-facilitator for the Disability (is Not A Bad Word) group and their social meet-ups. Additionally, I provide one-to-one (1:1) support for peers who may benefit from an individualized approach. I will occasionally guest-facilitate the hybrid Butterfly Talks group and the in-person Be Kind To Your Mind group. I graduated in May 2018 with my bachelors degree in psychology from the University of Central Florida, and I have been certified as an adult recovery peer specialist in the state of Florida since August 2021.

1:1 Peer Supporter & Co-Facilitator for Daily Communal Gatherings

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Queer & EDS Community Member // AuDHD and Learning-Disabled Paraprofessional Educator in Art and Music // I have a BA in Sociology and Booty Shaking // I Like to Create, Collect Wisdom and Watch Anime // I Love My Found Family More Than Anything  //  I’ve Been Told I Am Thoughtful and Transparent // Also Kinda Goofy, Mildly Obnoxious or Abrasive, and Weird

Lived Experience: 

• Escaping Familial Abuse and Neglect Related to Physical & Developmental Disabilities
• Involuntary Institutionalization and Violence from Police/Medical Staff
• Survival of/Recovery from Narcissistic Grooming, Childhood DV, SA, and Addiction
• Navigating Poverty, Chronic Housing Insecurity, and Food Insecurity
• Queer Identity Development, Gender Dysphoria, HRT, and Top Surgery Process/Recovery
• Work Discrimination & Explotation (Sex Work, Food Service, Retail, Volunteer Spaces) 

Iftu Hargaaya (she/her) is an Oromo educator, peer supporter, and community organizer with lived experience navigating mental health concerns. Currently Iftu teaches anti-oppressive education at a local community college and uses both her education and lived experience to inform her peer support practice. As a peer supporter she provides nonclinical mental wellness support using an abolitionist, trauma and culturally responsive approach to care. Outside of work Iftu enjoys volunteering, traveling, writing poetry and spending time with her dog. 

Born in Boriken (Puerto Rico) Itiba became a climate migrant at the young age of 11 when they where relocated to Central Florida post hurricane George. Itiba has been a community organizer since the age of 16 and has been active in mental health advocacy since the age of 20. She has dedicated time to understanding decolonization in the mental health services world. Itiba has also dedicated time to holistic healing advocacy. He is the executive assistant of majia MUSIK label, an inclusive label home to multiple multitalented artists and visionaries pioneering new concepts within the music, performance and modeling industry. Itiba Leonoris Supports facilitation of the Metaphor corner and the Peer Lead Autism support group. Additionally Itiba assist with facilitating Peer support space “planting hope” project focused on disability justice and peer supporting via gardening spaces. Itiba Leonoris is available for one on one meet ups particularly for folxs wanting support around the following topics: Domestic violence, PTSD, Bipolar disorders, Undiagnosed autism, Post partum depression, Post partum psychosis, Non binary / gender non conforming marriages - partnership, Homeschooling- unschooling, Gardening planning for mental health support, Decolonization, bipoc/ indigenous/ diaspora, peer support, Parenting / caregiving 

NGO employee / community organizing, peer support needs 

You can contact via email at itibasservices@gmail.com