Find a course
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Anxiety Disorders Training
Identify the different types of anxiety that can affect children and young people, find out how to help them cope and find specialist help if needed.
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Resilience Training : 'Ordinary Magic' And Learnable Skills
Resilient children are better equipped to resist adversity and recover better from traumatic events. This course helps you promote resilience in work with children and families.
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Early and Primary Years Mental Health Training
Learn how to promote positive mental health in primary and early years to give children the best start in life.
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Teens, Turmoil And Transition: Mental Health In Adolescence Training
Learn about teenage mental health and wellbeing issues and how to support young people through adolescence.
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Self Harm: An Introduction
Learn why young people self harm and how to support those who do.
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Technology, Teens and Mental Health Training
Today's teens never knew life without the internet. Learn about the technology and culture of their online world and help them protect their mental health.
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Addressing Adversity: Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences Training
Use trauma-informed approaches to support young people with additional needs.
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Looked After Children and Young People Training
Understand the risk factors in working with Looked After Children, learn how to reduce them, build resilience and help young people become happy adults.
Meet Our Trainers
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Hannah Kinsey
Our Training and Consultancy Manager, Hannah manages our trainers and works directly with schools, professionals, parents and young people.
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Bianka Kuhn
Bianka is an HCPC registered Dramatherapist with over 20 years worth of experience of devising and delivering workshops and training.
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Eve Allen
Eve has over ten years’ experience working with children, young people and families.
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Jessica Cotton
Jessica is a BACP qualified Psychodynamic Counsellor and mental health project manager with over 10 years experience working with vulnerable people in a range of community settings.
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Joanna Watson
A qualified primary school teacher, with 18 years’ experience, Joanna joined YoungMinds in 2014 and has helped design and deliver the Academic Resilience offer for schools.
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Mary Hinton
Mary taught and managed in primary, secondary and special schools for over 20 years, working in everything from a comprehensive school of 1,600 students to a village school with 35 on role and three year groups in a class.
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Amutha Rasapalan
Amutha is a primary school teacher with over a decade of experience in inner city London schools.
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Charlotte Levene
Charlotte is a training team leader, and a registered social worker with over 20 years’ experience of working with vulnerable children and those who care for them.
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Mary Webb
Mary is a practitioner academic, combining a Principal Lecturer post as course leader of the University of Westminster’s MSc Leading and Managing in Health and Social Care, with a consultancy, research and training business (The Change Agency) focussed on improving outcomes and service delivery in the public and third sector.
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Hayley Riggs
Hayley Riggs is a Trainer and Consultant at YoungMinds. Hayley has spent over 13 years supporting young people who have experienced adversity including mental health issues, homelessness and the care system. This has included extensive designing and delivering a wide range of training on Adolescent Mental Health, Academic Resilience and Self Harm.
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Sarah Berman
With over 25 years primary school teaching experience, Sarah is a volunteer on our Parents Helpline and delivers in-house and bespoke training on a range of issues concerning mental health.
