Whether you're leading a busy department, running a start-up, managing a production or running an established business, the emotional wellbeing of our people matters.
At Simi Sara, we offer professional psychological support for teams, organisations, production crews, and self-employed collectives. Our mission is to foster trust, prevent burnout, and elevate mental wellbeing through culturally attuned, evidence-based approaches that deliver meaningful results.
Our organisational therapy and wellbeing services include:
Reflective Practice Groups
Safe Spaces for team members to process difficult dynamics, emotional strain or burn out
1:1 Therapy for Team Members and Leaders
Online or on-site sessions for staff, managers or founders
On-Set Support & Crew Therapy
Mental health support tailored for emotionally demanding creative projects
Wellbeing Consultancy for HR & Culture Teams
Culturally conscious input on mental health strategies, DEI, and emotionally safe workspaces
Crisis Support & Aftercare
For teams or crews navigating workplace trauma, grief or major transitions
Who We Work With
Our workplace and organisational clients range from:
HR and wellbeing leads looking for clinical-level expertise
Agencies, charities and community organisations
Culturally diverse teams
Startups and small businesses
Self-employed networks and collectives
TV & film production crews
Why Choose Us?
Led by an Accredited Psychotherapist with Real-World Insight: We bring advanced clinical training and lived experience into every space we enter. From boardrooms to creative sets, your people are in safe, capable hands
Culturally Intelligent Support That Resonates: Our approach speaks to diverse teams, especially those who feel overlooked by traditional wellbeing programmes. By understanding the interplay between personal and organizational culture, identity, stress, and performance, we create inclusive solutions that empower individuals and elevate team dynamics.
Flexible Delivery: We offer reflective spaces and wellbeing support virtually or in person, whether your team is remote, in the office, studio based or on location. No matter where you are in the world, we can tailor a package to be delivered on site or online.
Tailored Programmes: We know that not One-Size-Fits-All so we don't simply recycle corporate wellness packages. Every offering is tailored to your organizations unique dynamics, its people and the industry culture
Trusted by Established Organisations and Start-ups alike: From production crews and freelancers to tech teams and teaching staff, we help high-performance groups achieve emotional resilience, navigate pressure and encourage healthy cohesion
Looking for expert wellbeing support for your organisation? Let’s talk about your team’s needs. Get in touch to explore tailored mental health solutions for your group, team or workplace.
Leave a message for Sade on +447400406855 or use the contact form to outline your needs and request a call back.
How It Works
We deliver strategic workplace wellbeing solutions through team-building initiatives, retreats, and in-house counselling and consultancy, complemented by confidential, professional one-to-one counselling and psychotherapy services for staff on both ad-hoc and ongoing bases. We work collaboratively with your organisation to design a support offer that fits your team and your budget.
You can book:
One-off sessions e.g. debriefs, staff away days, group therapeutic workshops
Ongoing support packages in weekly, monthly or seasonal sessions
Experiential psychoeducation & wellbeing sessions for retreats and team synergy days
Support for in-person ongoing projects or programmes on location
Tailored mental health programmes of consulting projects
Online course or places on our online workshops
Cost guidelines
Consultancy (one to one or group of up to 3):
1-day (7hrs) In-person / consultancy rates in your organization: from £800 plus VAT and travel
Hourly rate £150 per hour. This includes agreed travel time.
In-house workshops (4 individuals and over)
from £40 per person per hour (1 hour)
Training courses:
In-person at external training venues and live online: from £200 per participant / learner
Online course: from £180 per learner
*These costs are dependent on type and duration of meeting and workshop, as well as the nature of your group or organization. The prices are not fixed. Please contact me for a discussion.
Let's talk about your team's needs. Contact us to discuss how we can support your organisation, group or team. Leave a message for Sade on +447400406855 or use the contact form to outline your needs and request a call back.
Research* has found that bad managers are the top reason why people leave their jobs. With the skills learned and applied by counsellors world-wide, the Core Counselling Skills for Managers course will show you how to become a better manager. By your conversations, you will promote wellbeing at work, improve working conditions for your staff and promote positive mental health in your organization.
Some leadership styles breed a toxic workplace and a challenging atmosphere. Employees become anxious, accident prone, and guarded, allowing things to go wrong unchecked. In this kind of work environment, it is no surprise that organizations find it impossible to retain skilled and committed staff, leaving behind the unenthusiastic and uninspired. This travels externally giving the company the reputation of being an undesirable company to work for. As a manager, you will in turn develop stresses, gain a poor work-life balance from being unable to switch off from work, lacking trust in your employees and worsening your own mental health. This recycles the toxic environment that has been created in the workplace.
Why is it important to have counselling skills?
According to recent studies, a vast majority of managers expressed not having adequate training to have supportive workplace conversations. Employees and managers alike already feel hesitant in talking about their mental health in the workplace, quite different from physical health. People are usually quite open to discussing their aches and pains and the complex hospital treatments they have undergone. This is different from discussing mental and emotional health. The stigma still remains.
To stop the situation from deteriorating and to prevent it from starting in the first instance, every manager needs the basic tools for having respectful and supportive conversations. Healthy management involves having strong communication skills, good listening skills and being motivating and encouraging. It also requires caring about what matters to your staff, your authenticity and congruence, having the ability to connect with your team members and knowing how to offer support. These managerial skills help employees develop commitment to the team, trust in their management and aim for better performance. A counselling skill tailored for work settings is necessary to achieving this.
Counselling skills can be learned and applied to all workplace dialogues and discussions. They help when having difficult conversations, supporting staff during adverse life circumstances and enhancing wellbeing in your organization. The modules in this course teach the importance of building rapport, the skills needed to offer empathy, develop listening skills, know when to talk about yourself, learn the importance of questions and when to use them, the use of summaries, how to determine priority, the best ways to give feedback and ways of offering a challenge.
These new competencies will help you retain staff and attract good quality employees as you establish a positive work environment and hold the position of being a good place for people to work.
Managers are in prime position to make or break their employees’ mental health. The way you relate with your team holds the possibility of improving their wellbeing at work or damaging it. Whether you are new to management or a leader who has had trouble communicating effectively with staff with a leadership style previously described as harsh, unreasonable or inflexible, this short core counselling skills course will transform the way you work as a manager. This course will teach you a new way to relate to your staff and to communicate in a way that supports them and help them feel valued.
Begin the online course now:
Core Counselling Skills for Managers
*Check out the LinkedIn article '#1 reason why people quit'
The online courses delivered by Simi Sara Knowledge Hub are hosted by Teachable.
At Simi Sara, we provide mental health support for organisations across the UK, offering workplace mental health services for diverse teams, trauma-informed reflective practice, and access to an on-site therapist for projects and productions to help people thrive wherever they work.