Emily is a mental health pioneer who has spent over 20 years helping people and organisations tackle mental health challenges, improving quality of life for people and significantly improving outcomes for organisations.

She’s worked from an early age to help others, sharing experiences and knowledge gained from her own lived experience and as a result playing a pivotal role in the positions she’s held, often trailblazing mental health policy and practice.

Not satisfied to accept the status quo Emily has developed numerous unique tools and techniques enabling more effective support in the workplace with demonstrable outcomes. She is always careful to balance good mental health and wellbeing with improving workplace best practice to achieve optimal results for both the employee and employer.

The many people and organisations Emily has worked with have sought to harness their amazing human talent by creating environments free from stigma and stress, developing effective workplaces free from psychological damage, that are fun places to be.

Emily has been instrumental in Our Minds Work’s success advising client organisations as diverse as online giant Amazon, Northumbrian Water Limited, national charity Changing Lives, to name a few, creating evolutionary workplace culture change, prioritising mental wellbeing and tackling stress for better, mentally healthier working.

Emily was instrumental in setting up this pioneering counselling and consultancy service for mental health charity Mind to address the rising tide of mental ill health in the workplace with the support of local councils, the business community and the North East Social Investment Fund.

Emily’s work developing the national Mind, Blue Light Programme and North East Network for emergency service personnel was hugely successful in developing and implementing services that directly tackled the issues around stigma work-related trauma.

It achieved great success initiating a much-admired process of proactive organisational support and culture change at time before mental health in the workplace had entered national debate.