Our Team
25+ Years Combined Experience
Psychologically Informed
Full UK Coverage
Peter Russell
Operations Director
Peter is an experienced senior manager, with experience across the travel, finance and legal sectors. He has vast experience in marketing, business development, operations and sales.
Peter loves developing people and training them to be the absolute best versions of themselves!
In his spare time, Peter enjoys going to the gym, running, and travelling to as many different countries as possible!
– Experience in the legal sector as a senior manager, responsible for multi-level sales, business development and customer service teams. Responsible for creating and implementing effective business development and marketing strategies.
– Experienced in the finance industry with business development and marketing activities.
– Worked in the airline industry as a business manager, ensuring that the customer journey was as efficient as possible including all customer touch points.
Peter has vast personal experience, including close navigating close family members who suffered with their mental health throughout their life.
Hayley Broughton-McKinna
Training Director
Hayley is a qualified Associate Psychological Practitioner with over 10 years professional experience. Hayley holds a BSc in Psychology obtained at the University of Manchester, and a PGDip as an Associate Psychological Practitioner from the University of Central Lancashire.
Hayley prides herself on her ever-expanding psychological knowledge and specialises in workplace wellbeing.
In her spare time, Hayley enjoys going to the gym, running, ice baths (we know!), travel, and trying anything and everything new and out of her comfort zone, for example: sky diving, aerial silks, life drawing, roller skating.
– Criminal Justice services – including Police custody, Magistrates court and Community
– Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
– Inpatient services – working with eating disorders, and complex care and rehabilitation
– Time Specialist Support – specialist support worker for young people with autism
– The National Association for People Abused in Childhood
– SLV – Mental Health Placement Volunteer, volunteering in Sri Lanka
As well as ample professional experience, Hayley has a wealth of personal experience. Hayley was an inpatient herself on a psychiatric ward for 16 months as a teenager with anorexia and depression, where she was detained under the Mental Health Act. Hayley also cared for a parent with addiction and mental health difficulties alongside work and studying.
Hayley has severe combined ADHD and has a deep passion for helping others to not only understand neurodivergence, but admire the many positives and strengths that come with this. Her own ADHD means that sessions with Hayley are nothing short of an experience. Hayley relies on humour, music and creating wild and wonderful activities to communicate complex psychological principles in a way that helps you to GET it, and to remember it.
Hayley is extremely passionate and enthusiastic about equipping people with the tools to change their own lives, and finds it nothing short of a privilege to do so.
Charmaine Attwater
Training Coordinator & Trainer
Charmaine is a qualified Associate Psychological Practitioner with 8 years professional experience. Charmaine holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Liverpool and a PGDip as an Associate Psychological Practitioner from the University of Central Lancashire.
Charmaine is passionate about taking a holistic approach to wellbeing, with a particular interest in neurodivergence, menopause and mental health. She is passionate about helping people to recognise their strengths and helping them to feel empowered to live a fulfilling life
In her spare time, Charmaine can be found hiking in the lake district, going to yoga classes, and sitting in coffee shops. She is passionate about reading and nature.
Domiciliary Care – Supporting people in the community with extra care needs.
Supported Living – Supporting people with mental health struggles to live independently.
Inpatient Services – Working with people across a range of inpatient services and providing support.
General Practice – Providing low-level therapeutic support for people across a variety of ages and backgrounds.
Charity Services – Working on projects to support the development of services for mental health across Lancashire and training within schools for staff on mental health.
Charmaine was in foster care until she was five years old. Her own experiences with mental health difficulties throughout her life lead her to learning more and studying about psychology. Using techniques from her studies to help her mental health this ignited her passion to help as many people as possible. Losing a close friend to suicide at the age of 19 fuelled this passion to help and support people further.
‘’What we experience may impact us but it does not have to define us, we are able to write our own future’’
Megan Laverick-Smith
Trainer
Megan is a Mental Health Practitioner and Trainer with over 15 years of experience working with both children and adults. She holds a Degree in Psychology from the University of Sussex and began her career as an Assistant Psychologist, working within forensic and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She later completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing and then also to become a Dialectical Behavioural Therapist supporting people with personality disorders and addiction.
When she’s not working, Megan can usually be found travelling, dancing at Zumba, laughing at stand-up comedy, or attempting to grow vegetables that stubbornly refuse to cooperate.
– Assistant Psychologist within forensic mental health services.
Throughout her career, the most rewarding aspect of Megan’s work has been supporting people to gain a better understanding of themselves and witnessing the positive impact this can have on their confidence, relationships and quality of life. Whether through assessment, therapeutic work or training, she feels privileged to play a small part in helping people move forward and achieve their potential.
Megan Ramsell
Trainer
Megan is an Organisational Psychologist and senior HR practitioner (MSc, Chartered MCIPD) specialising in trauma-informed people strategy, workplace wellbeing, and psychologically safe leadership.
With 15+ years of experience in HR service delivery, policy, and organisational change, Megan strives to bring evidence-led insight and applied systems thinking to organisations that want to strengthen their culture, performance, and resilience.
Megan is due to complete her PhD - focused on how leadership and psychosocial working conditions shape employee recovery and growth following trauma – in 2026.
Megan is a keen reader and voracious podcast consumer, and loves to immerse herself in learning about new, offbeat or unusual topics (even better if she can tell you about them later). She also enjoys live music, theatre and gardening, although her garden is built more on vibes than on design!
– Doctoral research at the Department of People, Work and Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London
– Organisational Psychology consulting and facilitation, with a specialist focus on workplace wellbeing, trauma-informed practice and psychosocial risk.
– Senior HR leadership across financial services, creative media technology and the public sector. Experience in HR delivery and people service transformation, as well as program-level delivery across organisational change, policy development, and equity-driven initiatives.
– Chartered (L7) Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Member of the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP), Member of the National Suicide Prevention Agency
Megan has lived experience of supporting people in crisis, including those experiencing thoughts of suicide, through 10 years of voluntary service with Samaritans. She is late-diagnosed neurodivergent and a parent of neurodivergent children, and has a personal interest in developing her skills and knowledge around support and inclusion of neurodivergent individuals and groups.
Lauren White
Trainer
Lauren is a recovering workaholic with senior operational experience across the advertising and not for profit sectors. People, purpose, and culture are her drivers.
She now coaches women to help them find purpose and connection and is studying for a qualification in neurolinguistic programming (NLP). Lauren also works as a declutterer and organiser, often helping women with ADHD, who are autistic, or AuDHD, to create calm and manageable spaces.
Bringing awareness to elements of choice in life, finding and engaging with joy, mindfulness, and breathwork are all central to Lauren’s work with others.
You’ll find Lauren pottering around her allotment, talking to her cats, or with her nose in a book. Ideally on a sunny day! She also loves Pilates, breathwork, and writing. And dancing. Badly.
– Senior Leadership experience in advertising and not for profit sectors, including in People & Operations
– 17+ years’ in Communications based roles
– Coaching training and experience, including session delivery for vulnerable women
– Delivery of training programmes including ‘Made of Money’ financial literacy for victim/survivors of domestic abuse and ‘Good Night Out’ training on how to respond to sexual harassment and assault in late night venues
– Variety of voluntary roles, including teaching criminalised adults to read, working on a helpline to support survivors of sexual violence, and being a Trustee for a gender equality charity.
Adverse experiences and mental health issues had an impact on Lauren’s life from a young age. A long-term abusive relationship as a young adult added to this. Lauren has experienced depression, chronic stress, and burnout – more than once – and has fibromyalgia and chronic pain.
Lauren still enjoys a full life, however. Learning to be friends with herself and her body – and helping others to do the same – keep her moving and growing.
Micaela Maringa
Content Manager
Micaela is an experienced content writer who holds a Psychological Science BSc from Monash University. She enjoys contributing to mental health awareness by creating engaging, research-backed content that helps organisations understand and prioritise mental wellbeing.
Micaela is motivated by her genuine passion for dismantling the global stigma that surrounds mental differences.
In her spare time, Micaela enjoys travelling to sunny places, experimenting with her skincare routine, learning French, listening to Spanish music, and participating in alternative dance classes. She also loves reading thought-provoking thrillers that challenge perspectives and keep her guessing.
– Addiction & mental health copywriter – simplified complex scientific research into clear, accessible copy for mental health services.
– Health and wellness content writer – created written content for the wellness industry
– Volunteer research assistant – transcribed and proofread psychology-related research interviews.
– Teaching assistant for children under the age of 8 years old – supporting those with learning difficulties.
Micaela first understood the impact of ignoring mental health when she was diagnosed with depression in her younger years. Without proper recognition or support, she found herself struggling until a later diagnosis of Adult ADHD reshaped the way she approached work and life.
Rather than seeing these challenges as obstacles, she chose to deepen her understanding, both of herself and of others, who often feel misunderstood. She believes in working with differences rather than against them, and embracing what makes each person unique.
Her experiences, along with those of her family members with autism, have only strengthened her commitment to making sure every story is heard and validated.