Our thoughts are racing, our emotions are flooring us, we’re struggling to keep on going and our belief in it all working out in the end is starting to crack. We’ve all been there. So this session will get us started on developing our ‘first aid kit’ for when it hits the fan! We’ll look at sources of hope and persistence, ways of taking control of unruly and exhausting thoughts, and ideas for grounding those difficult emotions. We’ll bring them all together in one place – our psychological first aid kit.

Anne is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with 30 years experience working in mental health services. She has worked in old asylums, in community services and in modern mental health hospitals, with people at all stages of their recovery journey. She now channels her energy into leading the movement for mental health recovery across the Black Country, a movement based on the principles of the power of relationships, supporting people to use and strengthen their capabilities, and working from a position of possibility. Her commitment to mental health recovery has been significantly influenced by her own lived experience as a mother of twin daughters with mental health challenges.