Our Team

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Liz Rowe

Board of Trustees
Trustee Liz Rowe Liz brings her experience across the health and social care sector, striving to represent adults and children inclusively. 

Charles Alberts

Board of Trustees
As a Dorset Mind Trustee, Charles brings his extensive experience of workplace wellbeing and prioritising employee mental health to the role.

Tia Thorp

Children and Young People Services Manager
Our Children & Young People Services Manager Tia, oversees the delivery and development of services to benefit the wellbeing of young people. 

Catherine Manners

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Catherine is a Trainee Placement Counsellor. She believes through self awareness and exploration counselling can inspire change and improve quality of life.

Ben Kaye

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Ben intends to use his role as a Trainee Placement Counsellor to help people to talk and think things through in a space that is safe and solely for them.

Ruth Hutton

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Ruth is one of our Trainee Placement Counsellors. She doesn't try to fix or tell clients what to do but offers them support as they find their own answers.

Julie-Ann Booker

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Julie-Ann is one of our Trainee Placement Counsellors. She beieves counselling can help people from being over-whelmed to see and feel things more clearly.

Tracy Greenhill

Active Monitoring Practitioner
Tracy is one of our Active Monitoring Practititioners for Poole. Being active is a big part of the week for Tracy. She enjoys running, canicross, cycling, swimming and paddle boarding.

Chris Pickard

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Chris is a Trainee Placement Counsellor, and believes counselling is an opportunity for self-exploration to gain a better understanding of personal issues.
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Melanie Woolrych

Active Monitor Practitioner
Melanie is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners. She finds it rewarding supporting clients taking their first steps to improve their mental wellbeing.

Charlotte Samways

Active Monitoring Practitioner
Charlotte is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners for Bournemouth Central. She is a real 'people person' & thrives on helping & supporting others.
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Lauren Kennedy

Active Monitoring Practitioner
Laruen is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners based at the Southcoast PCN - she enjoys inspiring people to make small changes in their life to improve their wellbeing.

Chandy Green

Ambassador
In his role as an Ambassador, Chandy hopes to challenge/change the way we think about mental health. So that we think people can live well with a diagnosis.

Marie-Clare Gale

Training Manager
Our Training Manager Marie-Clare, wants to keep the conversation about mental health going to help normalise feelings that people experience.

Bethany Cleeve

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Beth is a Trainee Placement counsellor and uses her lived experience and training to help provide accessible help for our local community.

Matthew Pittman

Qualified Counsellor
Qualified Placement Counsellor Matt believes talking therapies are an important practise to offer someone non-judgmental support and care when they need it.

Lucy Crescent

Trainee Placement Counsellor
Our Trainee Placement Counsellor, Lucy, looks forward to help people become more in tune with themselves & develop strategies to cope with everyday life.

Chris Rose

Qualified Freelance Counsellor
Chris is one of our experienced Freelance Counsellors. He become a counsellor to see clouds lift for people, their potential fulfilled and a reduction in daily anxiety.

Leonie Hurrell

Freelance Trainer
Leonie is one of our Freelance Trainers. A former headteacher, Leonie shares her experiences and talks about her own mental health to help reduce stigma.

David Sutherland

Freelance Trainer, Befriending Coordinator, Active Monitoring Practitioner & Group Leader
David is a Trainer, Befriending Coordinator and Active Monitoring Practitioner for Dorset Mind.He enjoys supporting people to make improvements in their mental health through coaching, discussing ways forward and guided self-help.

Liz Clough

Freelance Trainer
Liz is a Freelance Trainer for Dorset Mind Works, since January 2019. During that time she has delivered a wide range of training to our corporate clients.

Victoria Heeley

Business Support Manager

Victoria is the Business Support Manager for Dorset Mind, overseeing all the Core operations for the charity. An advocate of supporting people to their fullest potential, Victoria has practiced as…

Ty Temel

Ambassador
Ty's aim as ambassador is to inspire men who are less likely to talk about mental health, to follow his example and build their resilience through talking.

Lucy Lewis

Ambassador
Lucy represents the charity as an ambassador. A former placement student, Lucy now works as an assistant psychologist - and still finds time to write for us.

Josh Parker

CYP Practitioner

Josh is a Children & Young Persons Practitioner who is passionate about breaking the stigma of Mental Health and creating awareness to help as many young people as possible. Previously…

Dan Willis

Ambassador
Dan's goal as our ambassador is to inspire other men to speak out about and live positively with their mental health. His two key strategies to help maintain his wellbeing are to regularly reflect and stay active.

Claire Sirmulis

Counselling Team Leader and Qualified Counsellor
Claire is our Team Leader for Dorset Mind's Adult Counselling team. She is passionate about empowering people to make positive change.

Alan Badenhorst

Befriending Volunteer

My name is Alan and I volunteer as a Befriender for Dorset Mind - I also volunteer for some of the events and fundraisers where possible. I started volunteering because…

Chris Tshuma

Ambassador
Ambassador Chris understands the need to break the stigma surrounding mental illness and talk about it openly. He believes we can achieve much together by understanding and supporting each other.

Sarah Hopkins

Ambassador
Sarah has a passion for sport, having played indoor volleyball to national level. Her advice is to develop your own ‘mental health first aid kit’ as you would for physical injuries.

Craig Mathie

Ambassador
Bournemouth 7's MD Craig is an events geek and a passionate sportsman. Craig believes that by talking about our experiences we can make real change in our community.

Nick Rowe

Dorset Community Mental Health Alliance Project Manager

Nick is Project Manager for the emerging Dorset Community Mental Health Alliance. This is a newly forming network of non-statutory organisations who wish to work together with statutory sector organisations…

Karen Butcher

Finance Assistant

Karen is Dorset Mind's Finance Assistant and is responsible for bookkeeping, bank reconciliations and other exciting and essential tasks! Karen comes from a long background in charities and ran a…

Cathy Crammer

Active Monitor Practitioner
Cathy is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners, who is also a qualified counsellor. She works with clients who struggle with mental health issues including anxiety & stress.

Talya Disagciyan

Active Monitor Practitioner Team Leader

Talya is our Team Leader for the Active Monitoring programme. She joined us in 2019 to help build the programme for Poole that runs in partnership with Shore Medical. The…

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Craig Eldridge

Ambassador
Our ambassador Craig loves speaking to audiences about mental health - and his lived experience. Craig hopes to inspire others to reach out for professional help, or to help others find emotional support.

Andy Howe

Ambassador
Andy is passionate about fitness and knows it's his vital coping strategy should he have any down days. By speaking about his mental health, Andy hopes to inspire many people of his age.
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Maddie Crawford

Ambassador
Maddie works in digital marketing and hopes her role as an ambassador will help reach a wide range of people, including workplace leaders. Being an ambassador has improved Maddie's confidence and encouraged her to be more open.
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Ross Duncan

Ambassador
Ross has been an ambassador for Dorset Mind for several years. He's passionate about helping others by sharing knowledge and his lived experience to ensure support networks can be better informed.
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Sharon Best

GAP Project Coordinator

Sharon is the GAP Project Coordinator.  Sharon has a background in Public Health & Wellbeing. She has a unique skill set developed over the past twenty years working with various…

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