J Helms (they/them) is an educator, advocate, writer, and psychiatric survivor. They currently work as Director of Training & Advocacy at Pathways Vermont, overseeing Pathways Vermont Training Institute, Vermont's Peer Workforce Development Initiative, and the Vermont Peer Certification Training Center. They previously worked as a service coordinator in Pathways' permanent supportive housing program and as a peer support advocate at HCRS, a designated agency in southern Vermont. J is a certified Intentional Peer Support trainer, Alternatives to Suicide group facilitator, and Hearing Voices group facilitator. J facilitates trainings and workshops on various topics, including Intentional Peer Support, Peer Support Ethics, Conversations About Suicide, Mad Movement Histories, Harm Reduction Approach to Psychiatric Drugs, and Pathways Vermont's Relationship-First Practice. J has an MFA in Creative Writing. Their lived experience includes neurodivergence, anxiety, sadness, grief, suicidality, and coming off of psychiatric drugs.