Right2Thrive UK – Wellbeing Team
Meet our dedicated team of mental health professionals
Wellbeing Coach
Meet Ekeisha – Your Wellbeing Coach at Right2Thrive UK
Ekeisha is a warm, supportive, and culturally aware wellbeing coach dedicated to helping young people feel motivated, confident, and empowered. With a strong background in psychology, counselling, and education, she understands the real life challenges young people face — including stress, low motivation, family expectations, cultural pressures, and emotional struggles.
She believes that everyone's wellbeing journey is unique and shaped by culture, identity, and personal experience. Her approach is always respectful, non judgemental, and centred on what you need.
How Ekeisha Supports You
- •Talk openly about any worries, challenges, or barriers.
- •Understand how culture, family, or community expectations may affect your mental health.
- •Build motivation, confidence, and positive coping strategies.
- •Set realistic, achievable goals and stay on track.
- •Access extra support for anything affecting your progress.
She also works closely with our CBT psychologist team. With your permission, she shares feedback to ensure your support is personalised, culturally sensitive, and aligned with your wellbeing needs.
Experience
- •Teaching in London mainstream primary schools (ages 5–11), planning and delivering UK curriculum lessons.
- •Providing person centred therapeutic care to individuals with anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and complex social or emotional needs.
- •Supporting young people in both mainstream and SEND settings, including those with autism, dyslexia, speech and cognitive delays, and behavioural challenges.
- •Offering counselling sessions as a trainee counsellor, guided by ethical and safeguarding principles.
- •Conducting qualitative and quantitative mental health research using DSM frameworks.
Qualifications
Therapist
Meet Angela – Therapist at Right2Thrive UK Wellbeing Hub
Angela is a calm, compassionate, and highly experienced therapist offering a safe and confidential space for adults, children, and young people. With over 15 years of experience, she supports clients through some of life's most challenging moments, helping them feel heard, understood, and empowered to move forward at their own pace.
Her approach is warm, culturally aware, and holistic — recognising that wellbeing is shaped by our past experiences, environment, identity, relationships, and daily pressures. Angela tailors therapy to each person's individual needs, making sure everyone feels comfortable, respected, and supported.
How Angela Supports You
Angela specialises in helping people work through a wide range of emotional and wellbeing needs, including:
- •Domestic abuse.
- •Sexual abuse (supporting both adults and children).
- •Anxiety and depression.
- •Stress and trauma related difficulties.
- •Work related emotional challenges.
- •Sight loss related emotional wellbeing.
- •Child focused play therapy.
- •Cultural and identity related issues.
Her sessions offer space to explore feelings, develop coping strategies, and understand your personal experiences without judgement.
Her Therapeutic Approach
Angela works holistically and mindfully, recognising that emotional health is connected to the whole of a person — mind, body, relationships, and environment.
She uses Person Centred Therapy and Play Therapy, adapting her approach depending on the age, needs, and goals of each client. Whether through talking, creative play, or reflective exploration, she ensures every session feels safe, gentle, and supportive.
She works with:
- • Adults
- • Young people
- • Children
- • Couples
- • Older adults
- • Organisations
And she offers therapy through:
- • Online sessions
- • Telephone sessions
- • Email or text therapy
- • Short term or long term work
- • Time limited programmes
Your First Session With Angela
For adults (free 30 minute intro session): Your first session is a chance to get to know each other. Angela will gently explore what's brought you to therapy, answer any questions, and explain how she works. There's no pressure — the focus is simply on seeing whether it feels like the right fit for you.
For children & young people (under 18s): Angela creates a relaxed, welcoming space where children can feel safe. In the first session, children and young people can choose to talk, draw, play, or simply get comfortable — there's no right or wrong way to be. Angela's role is to help make sense of big feelings in a way that feels gentle and reassuring.
Issues Angela Can Help With
Angela supports people with a wide range of challenges, including:
Abuse, anxiety, bereavement, child related issues, cultural issues, depression, health related concerns, identity issues, loss, menopause, neurodiversity, relationships, self esteem, stress, women's issues, work related issues, and trauma.
Qualifications & Professional Details
Senior CBT Practitioner
Evette is a highly experienced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) practitioner with over 30 years' experience in mental health, supporting both adolescents and adults.
Expertise
- •Extensive Experience: With more than three decades in practice, Evette brings deep knowledge and clinical expertise to every session, offering clients meaningful insight and effective therapeutic interventions.
- •Empathy and Understanding: She uses a compassionate, client centred approach that builds trust and supports clients to engage confidently in their healing journey.
- •Proven Success: Evette has a strong record of positive therapeutic outcomes, with many clients achieving significant improvements in mental health and wellbeing.
Supervision
Evette provides clinical supervision to the Right2Thrive UK Psychology Team, ensuring high quality practice, confidentiality, ethical standards, accurate record keeping, and ongoing professional development.
Accreditations & Qualifications
Approach
Evette works within cognitive, behavioural, and humanistic frameworks. She uses evidence based CBT interventions including cognitive restructuring, guided discovery, exposure work, behavioural activation, relaxation skills, mindfulness, and solution focused strategies.
Founder & Director, Precious Moments and Health Ltd
Experience
- •Over 25 years' experience mentoring and supporting children, young people, and families across schools, local authorities, and community settings.
Specialism
- •Supporting children with emotional and behavioural challenges.
- •Integrative counselling using CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, and Play Therapy.
Professional Membership
Kevin has spent the last 18 years working within the Enfield Secondary Tuition Centre (Pupil Referral Unit), across three sites, supporting some of the most vulnerable and disengaged students and families in the Borough of Enfield.
His work began as a Learning Behaviour Mentor, supporting students in lessons and delivering one to one mentoring to promote positive behaviour. Four years into this role, he was appointed Centre Manager for the KS3 Newbury site, where he successfully reintegrated many students back into mainstream education.
Training
Kevin has completed a wide range of behaviour focused training, including:
- •Pivotal behaviour training with Paul Dix
- •Talking Mats
- •Approach Training
- •Safeguarding Training
- •Cornerstone VR Training
In 2019, while working full time, Kevin began formal therapy training with Enfield Counselling and Psychotherapy Service. After completing the Certificate year, he went on to achieve a three year Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, graduating in July 2024.
His therapeutic journey offered a new perspective on behaviour—one grounded in emotional understanding, non judgement, and the transformative power of the therapeutic relationship. With extensive behavioural work and psychodynamic training, Kevin is committed to expanding his impact by providing behavioural support, training, and therapeutic services to a wider community.
Psychological Therapist | Social Entrepreneur
Vanessa is an award winning social entrepreneur and qualified Psychological Therapist specialising in CBT. With nine years' experience in mental health, she is particularly passionate about culturally sensitive therapeutic approaches.
She supports individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, social anxiety, low self esteem, life transitions, trauma, and emotional hardship. Vanessa helps clients overcome psychological barriers by exploring the underlying causes of distress and implementing practical strategies through one to one sessions and group workshops.
Vanessa has delivered workshops and healing spaces across the UK in higher education, corporate settings, and faith communities. She has collaborated with respected organisations including JP Morgan, Virgin Group Ltd, Tesco, BBC, NHS, HMPPS, and CMS International Law Firm.
She is dedicated to helping individuals deepen their self understanding and 'live their best lives'.
Registered Psychotherapist
Experience
Over 10 years' experience in mental health and social care, including roles within homelessness services, the Probation Service, the NHS, and local authorities.
Qualifications
- •BSc Psychology (University of Leeds)
- •Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy
- •Certifications in Compassion Focused Therapy, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Trauma Release Exercise, Meditation, and DBT Skills
Specialism
Holistic mental health care incorporating cultural, societal, lifestyle, and spiritual factors.
Raveen offers integrative psychotherapy with a holistic focus, supporting harmony between mind, body, and soul. She creates a gentle, healing, and non judgemental therapeutic space where clients can explore emotional challenges with compassion and openness.
Her work emphasises:
- •Somatic and body focused practices
- •Meditative and mindfulness based techniques
- •Breathwork and trauma/emotion release exercises
- •Clinical hypnotherapy
Raveen supports clients in reconnecting with themselves, deepening self awareness, and moving from emotional difficulty to greater freedom, fulfilment, and joy. She works with individuals beyond labels or diagnoses, honouring their whole person experience.
Professional Membership
Founder of Right2Thrive UK Social Enterprise
Meet Colin Lee-Own – Founder of Right2Thrive UK Social Enterprise
Colin Lee-Own is the founder and heart behind Right2Thrive UK. With a community career beginning in 1984 as a youth and community worker in Haringey Youth Service, Colin has spent over four decades supporting young people, families, and diverse communities across London.
He has always been dedicated to empowering young people who face barriers such as exclusion, unemployment, or lack of opportunities. His leadership, lived experience, and passion for community development have shaped Right2Thrive UK into a trusted wellbeing and support hub.
Colin's Journey in Youth & Community Work
Youth Work & Community Leadership
- •Started as a Youth & Community Worker in Haringey Youth Service (1984)
- •Developed and delivered youth programmes during a time of major social and cultural change
- •Believes in creating opportunities, building resilience, and supporting young people to thrive despite challenges
Regeneration & Employment Support
- •Project Manager at AD 2000 Productions (1994–2000)
- –Led regeneration projects in Enfield
- –Created programmes to tackle youth unemployment
- –Supported young people in building practical skills, confidence, and employment pathways
Jasmaine Scholars (2005–2019)
- •Developed marketing strategies to increase community awareness
- •Mentored young people excluded from school, helping them reconnect with education and positive goals
- •Designed community engagement activities to support young people at risk
Founder of 21K Digital Media
- •Created a digital media platform focused on youth voice, creativity, and personal development
- •Supported young people in media skills, communication, and digital confidence
- •Built community connections through storytelling and digital engagement
Role at Right2Thrive UK
As founder, Colin:
- •Leads the organisation's vision, values, and strategic direction
- •Supports the wellbeing team and youth mentors
- •Builds strong partnerships with schools, local authorities, and community groups
- •Ensures all support is inclusive, culturally aware, and centred on real community needs
- •Advocates for young people facing disadvantage, mental‑health barriers, or exclusion
Colin's leadership is rooted in compassion, fairness, and a genuine belief in every young person's potential.