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Welldoing Inspiration Awards 2024 Winner: Talk for Health

While training as a psychotherapist Nicky Forsythe created a group peer counselling programme, originally for fellow trainees. Calling it Talk for Health she launched it as a social enterprise in 2013. It is a four-day programme in which people “learn key skills, which are to share fruitfully about emotions, and to feed back to each other using counselling skills within a defined framework. Over 10 years we demonstrated that our programme was as effective as therapy in lifting wellbeing and reducing depression.” In 2022 Talk for Health won a UK National Mental Health Award for Long Term Impact. T4H was commissioned by the NHS and was supported by grant-funders and around 2500 people have gone through the London-centred programme. But plans for growth came to nothing, and in spite of its powerful effects, T4H is due to close at the end of this month. Nicky is not the only person to despair. Mark Harris is one of the service users of the charity and a huge fan of its work. “Being a black man I’ve always been told not to speak, not to share, or we would be judged.” He has done many of the T4H courses, and he speaks for many when he says “After you do them, something changes inside. People feel loved, wanted, not judged. I didn’t know that was possible.” https://talkforhealth.co.uk/ See our other winners here: https://welldoing.org/article/meet-th...