Moral Injury (MI) is often described as a wound of conscience - an experience that shakes our identity, values, belonging, and spirit. Too often, care for MI is framed through clinical lensing that foreground symptoms and pathology, which can miss its deeply human, moral, and relational dimension. By contrast, intentional peer work begins with the wisdom of lived experience and foregrounds people’s stories, strengths, and values. Still, peer practice struggles to establish its standing inside service models built on clinical frameworks that can problematise its generative values.

This paper explores a different way forward: a transdisciplinary model of recovery co-created from the ground up, bringing peer wisdom and clinical practice together in genuine partnership. At the heart of this model are language and practices that honour connection, mutuality, and respect for each person’s worldview - acknowledging that each visitor is the expert in their own healing. A single-session approach is embedded to ensure care is timely, responsive, and grounded in authentic human connection.

In this model, lived-experience peers hold the first space of care. Here, moral pain is understood not as disorder but as a sign of values that matter, values that have been harmed or betrayed. Peer spaces offer mutuality, co-learning, and shared accountability, shaping the orientation of recovery. Clinical perspectives complement - not dominate - this work, offering collaboration and oversight.

Adopting transdisciplinary practice dissolves silos between disciplines and knowledge systems. Instead of adding one approach on top of another, this way of working weaves them together, creating something new. Narrative and dialogical practices sit alongside brief interventions, each shaped and reshaped through ongoing conversation and the grounding of lived experience.

In practice, MI recovery is not only measured by the easing of symptoms, but by the growth of moral repair and transformation: renewed trust, spiritual reconciliation, self-forgiveness that feels real, and actions that restore connection with community. Co-authorship between peers, clinicians, and organisational supports are built into every layer of design, sessional practice, and evaluation.

By grounding moral injury care within transdisciplinary practice, recovery becomes a process of transformational healing - restoring the values, relationships, and practical belonging that moral pain can so deeply disrupt.