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Meet Joy Donnell

As a Certified Trauma-Informed Coach and Registered Health Coach, I've had the privilege of witnessing just how profoundly life can change when we uncover the hidden wounds of trauma and learn to understand and regulate the nervous system.

My journey started as a psychotherapist with a passion for working with Armed Forces personnel dealing with PTSD. But my first placement took me somewhere unexpected: a sexual trauma centre, where I worked closely with survivors of sexual and psychological abuse. It was a deeply moving experience to sit with people whose lives had been marked by confusion, crisis, and collapse. Yet, each day, they found the strength to get up, take care of their children, go to work, and somehow keep going. In the safety of the therapy room, we could explore the numbness and process their experiences together. I feel truly honoured to have been part of their healing journey, each person finding their own way forward.

My mission is to bring this understanding to my local community in Hampshire and Wiltshire, creating safer, more compassionate spaces where individuals and communities can heal and flourish.

Through my work with The Mental Wellbeing Company, I’m dedicated to making trauma-informed practices and positive psychology accessible to everyone. I’ve completed the ICF and CPD accredited Somatic Trauma-Informed Coaching Certification and am a proud member of the Trauma Informed Professional Network, the world’s fastest-growing community of trauma-informed professionals.

This advanced training has given me the tools to offer transformative workshops and 1:1 coaching sessions that prioritise mental health and wellbeing.

My Qualifications

  • Certified Trauma Informed Coach through The Mental Wellbeing Company

  • Completion ICF & CPD Accredited Somatic Trauma Informed Coaching Certification

  • Ten years of experience in psychotherapy and coaching

  • Trained in NLP, Contemporary Psychotherapy, Hypnosis, Addiction and recovery, Anxiety and Depression

  • Passionate about creating trauma-informed schools, workplaces, and communities

  • ICF Transformational coach

  • FMCA - UKIHCA registered `health coach

  • Diploma in Contemporary psychotherapy

  • Hypnosis

  • Mindfulness and Ten of Zen M/f Practioner

  • Certificate in Addiction and recovery

  • Certificate in Anxiety and Depression

  • Certificate in 3rd wave CBT

  • NLP Master practitioner

A Message From Caroline Strawson

CEO & Founder of The Mental Wellbeing Company

Caroline Strawson is a globally recognised mental health and nervous system educator, therapist, and coach.

She has lived experience of homelessness, domestic abuse, debt, and mental illness. Having not only survived, she has gone on to become a world-leading expert in the study and education of mental health and human behaviour. Caroline brings a wealth of knowledge to her mission of making mental health and trauma mainstream subjects for all.

Through founding the Mental Wellbeing Company, she is leading a movement to make trauma informed awareness and positive psychology tools the norm in schools, workplaces, public sector organisations, and beyond.

Her vision is a world where every human understands their nervous system, leading to more compassion, passion, resilience, and thriving.

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Healing is not a destination, but as your journey unfolds and you heal yourself, you heal the next generation, too.

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