In  my lecture I'll be talking about what lived-experience consultants are, and what they can contribute to mental health care. I'll be discussing two aspects of the question: how lived-experience consultants can influence services from the inside; and what they can contribute to service-users, their families and carers, either from a rights-based perspective or from their own experiences as service-user, family or carer. I will be illustrating the points with examples from lived-experience consultants' work and practice.