Services
Rooted in lived experience, Jenni works with schools, local authorities, health services, charities, businesses and community organisations to turn insight into understanding — and understanding into meaningful change.
She is passionate about improving young people’s mental health, strengthening holistic support for families, and ensuring lived experience sits at the heart of care.
Through training, talks, policy and advisory work, she aims to spark conversations that save lives, strengthen families, and ensure no young person ever feels unheard.
Trainer
Building confidence through lived experience and practical learning
Jenni delivers engaging training and awareness sessions that help professionals, volunteers and organisations develop the knowledge, confidence and understanding needed to support others.
Drawing on both lived and professional experience, her training combines real-life insight with evidence-informed practice, creating safe spaces where people can learn, reflect and ask questions.
Training can be delivered to:
- Schools and colleges
- NHS and healthcare organisations
- Charities and community groups
- Workplace teams
- Professional audiences
Training topics include:
- Understanding young people's mental health
- Understanding eating disorders
- Suicide awareness and prevention
- Having supportive conversations
- Grief, bereavement and loss
- Building resilience and hope
- Supporting families affected by mental health difficulties
Speaker
Using lived experience to inspire understanding, challenge stigma and create change
Jenni is a lived experience speaker specialising in mental health, suicide prevention, grief, resilience and hope. Through honest and compassionate storytelling, she helps audiences engage with difficult topics in ways that are authentic, memorable and thought-provoking.
Her talks encourage reflection, build understanding and promote the importance of connection, kindness and help-seeking.
Speaking engagements include:
- School assemblies and student talks
- Workplace wellbeing events
- Conferences and keynote presentations
- Mental health awareness campaigns
- Community and voluntary sector events
- Panel discussions and lived experience events
Topics include:
- Youth mental health
- Suicide prevention
- Bereavement and grief
- Resilience and recovery
- Kindness, connection and belonging
- Hope after loss
- The value of lived experience
Consultant
Ensuring lived experience informs services, policy and decision-making
Jenni works alongside organisations to ensure the voices of children, young people and families are heard and valued.
With a background in governance, policy and engagement, she supports organisations to embed lived experience into the way they develop services, shape strategy and engage communities.
Her approach combines professional expertise with personal insight, helping organisations move beyond consultation and towards meaningful co-production.
Consultancy services include:
- Co-production and engagement
- Policy development and review (mental health / wellbeing / bereavement)
- Post-bereavement support
- Reflective practice sessions
- Service design and improvement
- Community project design and evaluation
- Strategic advisory roles
- Development of mental health and wellbeing initiatives
- Staff mentoring and confidence-building conversations
Please note: Jenni is not a counsellor, therapist or clinical practitioner. Her work focuses on education, awareness, lived experience and confidence-building rather than therapeutic interventions.
Flexible Delivery options
Sessions can be delivered as standalone workshops, talks or training events, or combined to create a tailored wellbeing programme for your organisation.
Half-day and full-day packages are available, with content designed around your specific needs.
Let's Talk
Every organisation is different, and support is tailored to your goals, audience and setting.
Whether you are looking for a speaker, trainer or consultant (or you're not really sure!) Jenni would be happy to discuss how lived experience can help your organisation build understanding, strengthen confidence and create meaningful change around mental health, suicide and bereavement.
Get in touch for an informal conversation about your requirements.