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- Active Monitoring Practitioner
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- CEO
- Counsellor
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- HR and Admin Support
- Income Generation Team
- Leadership Team
- Qualified Counsellor
- Qualified Placement Counsellor
- Staff
- Trainee Placement Counsellor
- Training Team
- Trustees
- Volunteers
Alexandra Evans
Ambassador
Ambassador Alexandra has had lived experience of physical and mental ill health. She's passionate about inspiring & educating others.
Sancho Loreto
Active Monitor Practitioner
Sancho is one of our Active Monitoring Practitioners. He enjoys supporting people with mental health challenges through a holistic lens.
Toby Kenneally
Ambassador
As our Ambassador, Toby uses his love of sport & exercise to help us let people know about the benefits of getting active on mental health.
Carly Weldon
Trainee Placement Counsellor
Carly is one of our Trainee Placement Counsellors. She's passionate about talking therapies, in particular person-centred counselling.
Linda O’Sullivan
Chief Executive
Linda O'Sullivan is Dorset Mind's CEO. She's passionate about putting participants central to everything we do and working collaboratively.
Yasmin Brown
Training and Community Relationships Coordinator
Yasmin is our Training and Community Relationships Coordinator, she works with partners to develop relationships and training opportunities.
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.
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.
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
Volunteer
Tracy is one of our regular volunteers. 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.
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.
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 Pitman
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
Active Monitoring Practitioner
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
Join our movement…
Dorset Mind is an organisation that comprises a team of enthusiastic, driven people who are passionate about removing the stigma around mental health and ensuring people have access to appropriate support in their time of need.
We are responsible to our Board of Trustees and Chair who guide the charity and set its governance, and our CEO and Management team help deliver our strategy.Our Patron, Ambassadors and army of volunteers are crucial to helping us support local people, we simply can’t do without them. To become a valued member of our charity, click the button below to view our paid vacancies,
or follow this link to find out how you could volunteer with us.
