About us
Bespoke Mental Health specialises in providing live and on-demand webinars and online workshops to mental healthcare providers, educators, charities and individual practitioners. Our training is founded on the principles of excellence, evidence and ethics with global experts providing the training only in psychological therapies, techniques and approaches that work. We aim to shorten the gap between research and practice, giving mental healthcare practitioners access to the latest thinking and helping them to enhance their skills to support effective and inclusive practice.
We offer an extensive programme of events suitable for mental health practitioners and allied healthcare professionals working in a range of settings and roles. We work collaboratively and flexibly to provide a tailored service to meet the needs of organisations and practitioners.
We are a for-profit company, but operate on a non-profit basis for the NHS, charities and universities.
Our team
We have extensive relevant experience, access to a substantial network of global experts in the field of evidence-based psychological therapies, and a committed and effective team working together to provide a high level of service, meaning we are ideally placed to provide the very best in evidence-based mental health training and consultancy.
Pamela Myles-Hooton
Training Director
Pam Myles-Hooton is an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) in recognition of her contribution to the field. She worked in the NHS for over 20 years and has extensive experience of developing and delivering training programmes in evidence-based psychological interventions. She is the author/co-author of several educational texts, academic publications, and self-help books, and has contributed to national guidance and curricula. Pam is a member of the NHS Talking Therapies Expert Advisory Group. She was editor in chief of The Cognitive Behavioural Therapist for four years.
Sarah Liddell
Operations Director
Sarah Liddell has extensive senior-level organisational planning and management experience across operations, finance, communications and governance. She has a wealth of experience in organising workshop programmes as well as other conferences and events. She worked for many years in higher education and has also worked for and with the NHS in previous roles.
Professor Roz Shafran
Strategic Director
Emeritus Professor Roz Shafran is the Chair of Translational Psychology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Roz is the founder and former Director of the Charlie Waller Institute of Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment at Reading University. Her clinical research interests focus on the development, evaluation, dissemination and implementation of cognitive behavioural treatments, including anxiety, loneliness, perfectionism and Long Covid across the age range. She has provided national and international training workshops in her areas of clinical expertise, has over 270 publications, and has written several books (most recently ‘How to Cope When Your Child Can’t: Comfort, Help and Hope for Parents’, available in bookshops) and has received multiple awards for her work.
Our vision
Positive mental wellbeing is enjoyed by everyone.
Our mission
To improve mental wellbeing by providing high quality training and consultancy in psychological treatments that work, delivered by global experts in the field.
Our values and approach
Bespoke – creatively tailoring our provision to meet your needs
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Excellence, Evidence and Evaluation – our global experts deliver exceptionally high-quality training in evidence-based strategies that have been evaluated and shown to work
Service – providing a high level of customer care
Practical and Passionate – we want to make a real-world difference; we deliver practical, skills-based training in interventions that have scientific support
Open – we are inclusive; our training is highly accessible, on-demand recordings enables learners to go at their own pace, and the principles of diversity and equality are embedded throughout
Knowledge – we are committed to sharing our experts’ knowledge of effective strategies to enhance delegates’ skills in supporting and strengthening mental wellbeing, and empower them to make a difference
Ethical – ethical practice and acting with integrity is at the heart of what we do.