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Your Mental Wellbeing Starts Here

It’s good to talk but coping with life starts in the nervous system.

A Bottom-Up Approach to Mental Health & Wellbeing

A Community-First Revolution in Mental Wellbeing

The Mental Wellbeing Club is a local, community-based space hosted by a Mental Wellbeing Practitioner and Certified Trauma Informed Coach where people can meet in a safe space to come to land, learn practical tools and reconnect, without diagnosis, pressure or judgment.

The Club has been created in response to overstretched systems and growing levels of stress, anxiety and disconnection. This safe space offers grounded, trauma informed support that works with the nervous system, not against it.

The Mental Wellbeing Club is not just a place to talk although talking is welcome here.

It is a trauma informed, nervous-system-led space, facilitated by certified professionals, where people are supported to understand themselves and build capacity to cope with life as it is.

Many spaces focus on:

“It’s okay to talk.”

The Mental Wellbeing Club also focuses on:

“It’s okay to feel and here’s how to work with what you feel.”

This is not group therapy or crisis care. It is preventative, human-centred mental wellbeing support rooted in safety, education and connection.

Why The Mental Wellbeing Club
Matters to Our Communities

The Mental Wellbeing Club matters because many people are not broken or unwell, they are overwhelmed, unsupported and navigating life in survival mode.

In communities where mental health services are overstretched and connection is fading, these clubs offer something essential which is a safe, non-clinical space to land, regulate and reconnect. By working with the nervous system first, The Mental Wellbeing Club provides practical, preventative support that helps people cope with everyday life before a crisis hits.

This is not about fixing people, it’s about restoring safety, building capacity and strengthening communities through human connection, consistency and care.

“The Mental Wellbeing Club is a worldwide network of safe, consistent, community-based spaces that offer bottom-up, trauma informed mental wellbeing support”

- Caroline Strawson

Founder & CEO of The Mental Wellbeing Company

Our Vision for The Mental Wellbeing Club

Our vision for The Mental Wellbeing Club is to create a network of safe, consistent, community-based
spaces offering bottom-up, trauma informed mental wellbeing support.

The Mental Wellbeing Club is run by a Mental Wellbeing Practitioner and a Certified Trauma Informed Coach
under The Mental Wellbeing Company brand, providing regular sessions where people can:

Feel safe enough to pause, land and breathe.

Understand their nervous system and emotional responses.

Learn practical tools to cope with everyday life.

Reconnect with themselves and others.

The heart of this vision is simple but powerful.

People leave knowing: “I understand myself better and I have ways to cope.”

Our aim is also a response to the reality that many people face in everyday life.

As a result of our systems being overstretched, we are seeing that too many individuals are not ‘ill enough’ for services, yet are struggling daily with stress, anxiety, overwhelm or emotional shutdown. The Mental Wellbeing Club exists to bridge that gap.

The Mental Wellbeing Club does not replace existing services, it relieves pressure by providing:

Early, accessible support

Practical tools people can use daily

A place to regulate rather than escalate

Our aim is to move people from poor mental health to positive mental wellbeing through accessible, grounded nervous system support.

What Happens During the Sessions

Each 2-hour session is hosted by a Mental Wellbeing Practitioner and Certified Trauma Informed Coach and follows a trauma informed A‑B‑C flow, designed to build safety, capacity, and connection.

A -

Arrive & Settle

Time to land and arrive in a safe space.

Gentle settling and optional guided grounding
No pressure to talk or share
Support for the nervous system to move out of survival mode

B -

Build Capacity

Practical, accessible nervous system education.

Led by a Mental Wellbeing Practitioner and Certified Trauma Informed Coach, this section includes:

Simple explanations of how the nervous system responds to stress
Worksheets and practical tools
Techniques to regulate rather than suppress
Capacity‑building for real‑life challenges

C -

Connect, Chat & Integrate

Safe, relaxed human connection

Space to chat, reflect or sit quietly with others
No expectation to share personal stories
Conversations held within clear, trauma informed boundaries

Each session is themed and intentionally designed to:

Create a space to regulate rather than escalate.
Build nervous system capacity for everyday challenges.
Reduce shame around stress, anxiety and emotional responses.
Offer support before crisis, burnout or breakdown.
This is not group therapy, it is a supported, human connection that helps people feel less alone.
Offering a welcoming, non‑clinical environment
Setting clear boundaries and professional facilitation by a Mental Wellbeing Practitioner and Certified Trauma Informed Coach.
No pressure to talk or share
Offering practical tools you can use immediately.
Creating a consistent safe space you can return to

“This is bottom‑up support, focused on understanding and working with the body,

not willpower or positive thinking”.

- Caroline Strawson

Founder & CEO of The Mental Wellbeing Company

Meet Your

Certified Mental Wellbeing Practitioner & Trauma Informed Coach

This is the space I wish I’d had access to years ago.

If you look like you’re coping on the outside but feel lost on the inside… you’re not alone.

Amanda is an ICF Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach, Mental Wellbeing Practitioner and Narcissistic Abuse Specialist. But long before the qualifications, she was a woman silently struggling.

Self-employed, raising two children and two dogs, she looked strong and capable. Yet inside she felt confused, disconnected from herself, and stuck in patterns she couldn’t seem to break. Every day felt like Groundhog Day trying to think positively, trying to push forward, trying to “just move on”… only to find herself back in the same emotional cycles.

Struggle had become normal. Life felt like an emotional rollercoaster intense highs followed by crashing lows, with no steady middle ground.

Everything shifted the day she realised she wasn’t broken.

She was carrying unprocessed trauma from years of emotional and psychological abuse.

Trauma is invisible. It lives in the body. It shapes behaviours, reactions and relationships without us even realising. When Amanda began healing at a somatic level and truly understood her nervous system, her life started to feel different grounded, safer, more aligned.

The Mental Wellbeing Club is a reflection of that journey.

It’s a safe, supportive space for individuals who are tired of surviving and ready to understand themselves on a deeper level. A place to learn about the nervous system, trauma patterns, emotional regulation and healing without shame or judgment.

Amanda brings her professional expertise, lived experience and deep empathy to create a community built on trust, support, safety and real transformation.

Ready to join us at
The Mental Wellbeing Club?

Come along to a supportive space created for people who just want to feel better and get to know themselves on a deeper level. Take that important first step and book your place with us where nothing is expected of you and you are welcome just as you are. We are confident that you will make new friends too.

First sessions start from Friday April !0th (12 weeks) 6.30-8.30pm

@ Rose Blend Cafe, Chertsey KT16 8AA

The focus for these 12 sessions will be

Mental Wellbeing

MENTAL WELLBEING

UNDERSTANDING YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM STATES

WELLBEING PATTERNS

PROTECTIVE RESPONSES

WHY PUSHING THROUGH MAKES IT HARDER

SAFETY VS REASSURANCE

TOLERATING UNCERTAINTY

HYPERVIGILANCE & OVERLOAD