Valentina Wright

Valentina is a mental health and wellbeing expert with a diverse range of training and experience. She draws upon anthropology, social science, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy to inform her practice in impact evaluation and therapeutic coaching.

Valentina takes a person-centered approach, giving primary attention to individual experience, while maintaining awareness of overarching factors. She has worked supporting and researching wellbeing across varying intersecting identities and circumstances, including:

• High performing corporate employment
• Homelessness
• Neurodiversity
• Diverse gender identities
• Existential junctures
• Children and young people, adults, and the elderly
• Global Majority, traveler, and white populations
• Asylum seekers
• Disability
• Parenthood
• Sickness & end of life
• Mental illness
• Addiction 

Relevant training includes:

Generative Coaching IAGC ICF Accredited 

How to Coach with NLP ICF Accredited

Suicide First Aid

Level 2 Motivational Interviewing / Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Level 2 Safeguarding Adults

Autism/Asperger’s/ASC Awareness

Methods and Practices of Good Coaching

Improving Communication with Transactional Analysis

Non-Religious Pastoral Support

MA Anthropology

BA Media & Cultural Studies

Safeguarding Children

Personal Stories and Workshop Development

Facilitation and Communication

Mental Health & Wellbeing Awareness

Home Instead Care Giver