Meet Niki from the Mental Wealth Academy team

The Mental Wealth Academy is a vital new partnership offering a programme of non-clinical mental health services for 18-25-year-olds across Oxfordshire. Owing to the pressures of the COVID pandemic, it has been extended in the short-term to 16-and-17-year-olds too.

The service offers a 1:1 intervention programme based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and solution focused therapies, which are delivered by a team of Transitional Wellbeing Practitioners, like Niki.

 

I’m Niki, Transitional Wellbeing Practitioner at SOFEA Didcot, one of the six organisations working in partnership to form the Mental Wealth Academy.

I am so excited to be part of the Mental Wealth Academy; an amazing new project offering 1:1 support that is tailored specifically to individual needs.

Having the opportunity to watch the young people’s development is extremely rewarding, and just one of the reasons I am passionate about this project.

Three fun facts about me:

• My favourite food is Thai curry.
• I have a French bulldog called Franco.
• I once left my passport on a tiny island in Australia and had to fly back to get it!

I graduated with a degree in Sociology from Oxford Brookes University and have training in CBT approaches, Solution Focused Therapy, Mental Health First Aid, emergency first aid, generalist safeguarding and the gorvenment’s Prevent progamme.

I wanted to work for the Mental Wealth Academy to support young people falling through gaps in other mental health services; I believe there should be no limitations as to what a young person can achieve.

The MWA has six friendly Transitional Wellbeing Practitioners, who are dedicated to delivering high quality and supportive sessions.

If you’re a young person aged 16-25 experiencing mild-moderate mental health concerns or a family member who would like to support them, please get in touch with the Mental Wealth Academy, and we can arrange for one of our team to call you back.