Working with you to raise an emotionally healthy generation
Tutoring, Emotion Coaching, Parental Consultancy and Training to help develop positive emotional health alongside academic success.
At Emotionally Healthy Minds, our passion is to nurture positive emotional health. We believe academic achievement and emotional wellbeing go hand in hand—and it doesn’t always have to be a struggle.
Giving children and young people the tools to understand, regulate and manage their emotions is key—and this is where we can help. After all, how can we expect children, or even adults, to excel academically if they’re struggling emotionally?
Everything we offer is built around four key strands:
Emotion Coaching
Compassionate, tailored Emotion Coaching to help children understand their feelings and behaviours, empowering them to make positive changes. After all, emotionally healthy children become emotionally healthy adults.
Tutoring
Combining Academic Tutoring and Emotion Coaching to meet each child’s unique learning needs, helping them catch up, keep up and fall in love with learning all over again.
Empowering Parents
Providing parents with practical tools and insights to confidently support their child’s emotional and educational growth at home—always with kindness and encouragement.
Training
Partnering with schools, education professionals and organisations to deliver tailored training and consultancy, sharing best practices that foster emotionally healthy, thriving environments.
Learning barriers are broken down, potential is unlocked and hope is restored
This morning, James and I had the privilege of working with a local school to deliver a parent workshop focused on supporting children with anxiety. What an opportunity.
We spent time breaking down what anxiety really is, what it can look like in children, and most importantly, sharing practical, realistic ways parents can support their child at home. We provided clear explanations, real-life examples and strategies that can actually be used in the middle of busy family life.
Parenting is without doubt one of the hardest jobs in the world. There’s no manual, no pause button, and when anxiety shows up, it can leave parents feeling unsure about what to do next. Sometimes, we all need a team around us to help guide, support, and reassure us that we’re not getting it wrong.
If your child is struggling with anxiety and you’re looking for support, we offer parent consultancy sessions to help you support your child at home, as well as one-to-one coaching sessions for children at our centre in South Woodham Ferrers.
Please do get in touch if you’d like more information or to talk through how we can help.
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Weekly win
James and his student have been exploring how our brains can sometimes tell us things that aren’t true, especially when emotions are running high. When the emotional part of the brain gets loud, it can convince us to believe unkind or unhelpful thoughts about ourselves.
Together, they practised pausing, checking those thoughts, and asking, “Is this actually true?” When it wasn’t, the student worked on “flipping the script” and replacing it with a thought that felt more balanced, compassionate, and realistic.
It’s not easy work, but with practice the student is getting better at spotting unhelpful thinking and choosing a kinder perspective instead. A really powerful reminder that learning to speak to ourselves with understanding can make a big difference over time.
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When your child comes home drained after school, it can be hard to know how to respond. Many children hold it together all day, managing rules, emotions, and social expectations, and home becomes the place where they finally release that tension. This is sometimes called “After-School Restraint Collapse,” and it’s very common, especially for younger or neurodivergent children.
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This week’s weekly win…
To help build self-esteem, James has been working with one of his students on exploring their strengths and positive qualities. As part of this, the student asked people close to them to share what strengths they see.
This was such an awesome activity as our student discovered qualities they hadn’t recognised in themselves at all.
Sometimes we need to see ourselves through the eyes of others to develop a kinder, more balanced view of who we are.
They wrote these strengths around a mirror frame, so each time the student looks at their reflection, they’re reminded of the wonderful qualities both they and others see in them.
So powerful x
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At EHM, we make sure students leave with more than advice. They leave with practical tools, strategies, and confidence to handle challenges after their coaching sessions finish. #EmotionallyHealthyMinds #CoachingTools #ConfidenceBuilding
Exciting team update!
I’m really excited to share that Heather, our administrator, has increased her hours with us at Emotionally Healthy Minds and, alongside working from home, is now also based at our centre two days a week:
Tuesdays: 11:30am – 3:00pm
Thursdays: 12:30pm – 6:30pm
Please do say hello if you’re in the centre with your children at these times 😊
Although Heather has been part of the EHM team for well over a year, this is the first time she’ll be spending some of her time based at the centre and we’re so excited about it. Having Heather here in person more regularly is a wonderful step for our team and for the families we support.
Welcome to centre life, Heather xx
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Weekly Win
This week, James led a fantastic session on self-esteem and celebrating our uniqueness. He and his student explored how fingerprints remind us that each of us is truly one-of-a-kind, and reflected on the different strengths they each bring.
What an incredible privilege it is to help children recognise and celebrate what makes them special.
Huge well done to James for creating such a thoughtful and engaging session! x
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Happy New Year from all of us at Emotionally Healthy Minds!
As we step into the new year, we want to wish all of our families, schools and supporters a very happy and healthy New Year.
This photo from our last training day captures most of our wonderful team, but it’s missing Simon (my husband and Executive Director) Sandy and Anna (our Non-Executive Directors) and Rob, Lis, Lauren D and Jess from the Emotionally Healthy Minds team. You were very much missed!
Thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey so far. We’re so excited for what’s ahead and can’t wait to continue supporting our children, young people and families in the year to come. 2026 is going to be a massive year — with plans for Emotionally Healthy Minds franchises, becoming an Approved Provision, new school initiatives, more tutors and students, the launch of our own counselling arm, and new ways to give back to our local community for free.
I genuinely can’t believe how far Emotionally Healthy Minds has come in just over three years, and I know in another year I’ll be even more in disbelief. What an incredible community we are.
Thank you to my team, our students and our families for believing in Emotionally Healthy Minds as much as I do. xxx
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Weekly Win
This week, Anne had a fantastic session with her student, who arrived over the moon after seeing her school test scores double since the last ones! Over the months, she has grown so much in confidence and tackled the tests with ease — something that used to make her very anxious.
Let me say it again… her scores DOUBLED! She shared the news not only with Anne, but with me and Nina too — it was incredible to see.
We’re all so proud of her.
Well done, Anne, for supporting her every step of the way! x
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