After her own personal experience with perinatal mental illness and losing a family member to maternal suicide, Viv founded Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness in 2011. Since then, she has used her lived experience to raise awareness of perinatal and infant mental health and wellbeing. Peach Tree is a not-for-profit organisation based in Brisbane which aims to improve early life and parenting experiences for parents, carers, infants, children and families in the First 2000 days period. Peach Tree works from a "village building" perspective and offers services through three Parent Wellbeing Centres. As CEO, Viv has been involved in designing, delivering and evaluating peer led programs; writing and implementing policy and procedure unique to a peer led service; recruiting, training and supporting lived experience workers. Viv has extensive experience in consumer representative and consultation work in governance and strategy at National, State and local levels. In 2022, Viv received an Order of Australia medal for her work in community mental health.