Facilitators

Izzy Russell

Izzy is a freelance trainer and regularly forms a happily married training team with her husband, Andrew Russell!  Izzy’s background is in primary teaching, but she has been interested in mental health issues for many years. Her experience of helping children in families who lost someone to suicide was what gave her a passion to save lives from suicide.  The ASK Workshop now enables her to save children’s lives too. Izzy is based in the North-East of England, but has trained all over the country with Andrew.

When not training, Izzy is often to be found running over the NorthYorkshire Moors with her little black dog or inspecting her honeybees.

askworkshops@gmail.com
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Services

• ASK Facilitator
• safeTALK Trainer
• ASIST Trainer

Nick Brown

Nick is passionate about bringing suicide prevention training to as many people as possible through the life-saving learnings of ASIST, safeTALK and now ASK.  He has been delivering Suicide Prevention Courses for 14 years.

His background is a mixture of teaching, counselling, coaching and training predominately in the Mental Health Charity Sector but also in Public and Private Sectors. He considers it his privilege to be part of this team to address the often disregarded but crucial issues around Child Suicide.

Nick feels fortunate to live in Brighton with his wife Jane and 3 children.

nickjrbrown@hotmail.com

Services

• ASK Facilitator
• safeTALK Trainer
• ASIST Trainer
• Mental Health First Aid National Trainer

Jenny Pickup

Jenny has over 20 years’ experience working in suicide prevention and mental health. She has extensive experience of crisis intervention work with a range of client groups.

In 2006 she co-founded Grassroots Suicide Prevention, an innovative suicide prevention charity based in Brighton, Sussex. Jenny is a senior coach and instructor with LivingWorks Education, the developers of the ASIST and safeTALK programmes. She is proud to be one of the original cohort of ASK facilitators here in the UK.

When not in the training room Jenny can be found enjoying off-grid living in a field somewhere in Cornwall.

jenny@the-hive.org.uk
07891 218935

Services

• ASK Facilitator
• safeTALK Trainer
• safeTALK Training for Trainers Coach
• ASIST Trainer (also a T4T Coach and Consulting Trainer for new / reactivating Trainers)

Alice Newton-Leeming

Alice Newton-Leeming has been studying, volunteering and working within the field of mental health and suicide prevention for over 12 years.

Graduating with a degree in Psychology whilst volunteering for the Samaritans and BeatBullying, Alice immediately embarked on a career of helping others through helpline work and training delivery.

Alice worked for suicide prevention charity PAPYRUS for eight years, specifically addressing suicide in young people, and now regularly delivers training courses with a focus on mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention. She is involved with Young Minds, Mind, and Every Life Matters, as well as running her own training organisation: Mental Health Learning, and works for Listening Ear providing support to those bereaved by suicide.

Alice is passionate about empowering others to help and support those they work with and / or care for, and believes that suicide prevention is everybody’s business.

Alice.newton-leeming@mentalhealthlearning.co.uk
www.mentalhealthlearning.co.uk

Services

• ASK Facilitator
• ASIST Trainer
• SuicideTALK Presenter
• Bespoke mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention workshops
• Mental health and Suicide Prevention Consultation and strategy guidance

Dr Marie Murphy

I have been delivering suicide prevention training for 15 years and have been asked many times, but what about children? The ASK Workshop has filled a knowledge and skills gap that has been missing from our suicide prevention work.

I am an HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist, currently working therapeutically with children and young people and in a managerial role with therapists. I find the skills I have learned on The ASK Workshop are invaluable to my work. I feel so grateful to be able to share this with others to increase their confidence and to keep our children safer from suicide.

mariemurphy18@gmail.com
https://mrmpsychology.com
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Services

• ASK Facilitator
• safeTALK Trainer
• ASIST Trainer and Team Leader