Mental Health Sessional Trainers

Hello, I’m Karin Horowitz and I’ve been working with YMCA Trinity Group since Autumn 2021.

While I have known about YMCA’s positive history of supporting children and young people for many years, I was pleased to meet YMCA colleagues at a recent webinar I was facilitating. This has led to the opportunity to work together more closely and contribute to YMCA’s goals of supporting the mental health of children, young people and the staff who work with them.

My work with school leaders and staff over the past 15 years, and for another decade before that in a wide range of industries and governments including the NHS, focus on their well-being. I provide coaching, non-clinical supervision, team development, and facilitation of key skills and learning for adults. I also provide Life Skills coaching and training to undergraduates and secondary school students. I support clergy in similar ways, running action learning sessions as well as coaching.

Overall my goal is to support people doing challenging and deeply valuable work in our society, in finding a healthy balance in their work and life, so that they too can be fulfilled and thrive.

Hello, I’m Lisa Phillips and I have been working with YMCA Trinity Group since 2018. Prior to this, I had the pleasure of working for YMCA in Sydney, Australia.

I am one of the Senior Trainers and have a background in Counselling, Coaching and Training.

I really enjoy working with YMCA, as I get to meet so many amazing people both at HQ and also when out and about running training sessions.

Training is my passion so it is great to be able to facilitate the great content that YMCA offers in its wide range of workshops and training courses.

Hi everyone, my name is Preety and I have been working with YMCA Trinity Group since spring 2021. My roles have varied within the Mental Health Services team but I am currently a sessional trainer.

Training and mental health are my passions. I was a teacher in a former life and now work as a talk therapist, running my own private practice as well as a freelance teacher for  a local charity working with primary aged children.

Working with the YMCA gives me great pleasure. The training delivery opportunities are always so varied and they work with a range of organisations, meaning the work is always interesting! The team are very supportive and available to chat things through as well as bounce ideas around and this makes me feel valued as a professional.

Training is my passion so it is great to be able to facilitate the great content that YMCA offers in its wide range of workshops and training courses.