Introducing our Ambassador.. Dr Sharie Coombes
The Juno Project Ambassador Dr Sharie Coombes. Photo courtesy of Nina Sarfas Photography.
We couldn’t do what we do without the incredible people that support us. One of those people is Dr Sharie Coombes, our The Juno Project Ambassador.
Dr Coombes began working with us as we upgraded and developed our resources to respond to the crisis of mental health and wellbeing amongst young women as we came out of the Covid pandemic. We wanted to make sure our work was trauma-informed, age-appropriate and likely to be effective for young women struggling with emotional dysregulation. Dr Coombes says:
“Mental health is such an important part of growing up and our young women deserve to have support and for that support to be embedded in their education and wider community. The Juno Project provides amazing support, and their knowledgeable, compassionate and sage approach fills me with hope for the reach of their work. They are a safe pair of hands in a world that can sometimes feel anything but safe for young women.”
Dr Coombes is an international psychotherapist and best-selling mental health author. She works with child, teen, families and adults and her expert advice and opinion is regularly sought out by mainstream media. Her books are feature in the top ten of children’s books that motivate and help children overcome anxiety. Dr Coombes has an MA in MA (Psychodynamic Psychotherapy) and a doctorate in child psychology (behavioural, cognitive, educational, linguistic, developmental and social). She has worked as a child and teen psychotherapist in private practice, the NHS and in schools and as a psychosocial practitioner in the British Red Cross. She also works with adults, couples and families and provides well-being and emotional health training for schools and education staff at all levels as well as training and relocation support for large corporate companies. Dr Sharie initially qualified as a primary teacher in 1985 and spent 10 years as a headteacher.
We have already seen the impact of Dr Coombes’ work with us through her thorough review of our session plans and resources, which supported us to identify our core modules and helped us to choose a delivery plan which ensured that we maximised impact for participants.
“The Juno Project aims to encourage, enthuse and empower, and the resources I have seen are pivotal to that aim being realised,” says Coombes. “The work they do will mean that young women can really get a sense of who they are now, have genuine influence on who they are emerging into and have the skills and support to determine who they want to be in the future.”
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