Meet Kelly.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant

Upon meeting Kelly there is no mistaking what she is passionate about, she is a bundle of energy, dedicated to the wellbeing of everyone in education communities.

Her philosophy enables staff, students and families to speak honestly and openly about their wellbeing experiences.

Kelly is a Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant and has spent her professional career passionately focussing on enhancing the opportunities and life chances of people in education. Through the power of her mental health training and therapeutic relationship skills, she has successfully led a school on the Wellbeing Award for Schools process. Kelly is an active speaker, blogger and writer of wellbeing in education and is passionate about creating the conditions under which teachers, pupils and families flourish.

Kelly has recently led on the DFE Wellbeing for Education Return Programme with Kent County Council and is currently leading on the ABSA (Anxiety Based School Avoidance).

She is the founder of the ‘Family Matters’, empowerment program that supports family health and wellbeing, positive relationships healing trauma and positive parenting strategies, this has resulted in outstanding outcomes for family engagement.

Kelly consistently empowers stakeholders through initiatives to build their resilience in learning and workplaces. Her work has been recognised by the Department for Education, The NCB, The Anna Freud Centre and The Education Support Partnership. Her collaboration with LGFL, creating the ‘Wellbeing Connected’ digital resource and receiving a digital excellence award for digital wellbeing for inclusion. She was also a BETT finalist in 2019 for her collaboration of work with Optimus Education.

There are many messages leaders take away from listening to Kelly deliver keynotes, training and workshops across the UK, she is the driving force for changing the way we look at wellbeing.

Contact us today, to explore how she can help you and your learning community.

Our Core Values

1 – Passion

  • Dedicated to helping others
  • Committed to excellence
  • We innovate to find the optimum point between excellence and balance

2 – Collaboration

  • We believe in the power of working together in healthy partnerships
  • We strive for equality, fairness and justice for all
  • We listen to understand

3 – Integrity

  • We lead by example and practice what we preach
  • We strive for quality with a human first approach
  • We share outstanding practice

Why choose Mind Work Matters

We help develop wellbeing solutions that impact on self-belief, aspirations and learning for children and young people.

We provide you with the tools to enhance wellbeing, that underpins great teaching and learning for all staff.

We enable schools to promote positive wellbeing for all stakeholders to manage the changing world demands

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