Changing Minds UK

Changing Minds UK COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Helping navigate change, maximise performance, and realise potential.

With a growing recognition of the limitations of applying psychology within traditional services, James and Andy created Changing Minds in order to apply psychological knowledge and theory more flexibly and effectively within the ‘real world’. They believe strongly in the importance of relationships and working with the existing strengths inherent in individuals and systems. Driven by a passion to

develop more positive futures and enable others to realise their potential, Changing Minds UK has developed to work in the UK and internationally with individuals and organisations across a range of settings including high performance sport, business, mental health and criminal justice.

We’re proud to share that our Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Obss Alademerin, has recently published his research in BMJ Con...
02/09/2026

We’re proud to share that our Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Obss Alademerin, has recently published his research in BMJ Connections Mental Health. 📝

The study explores how Black British communities culturally recognise, cope with and respond to mental distress, identifying five interconnected themes:

• mental resilience, including emotional suppression, concealment of distress and coping in solitude

• faith in distress

• escapism through substances

• physical and creative release

• peer support

One of the important reflections from the research is that distress is not always understood, expressed or responded to in the same way.

Culture, identity, community and lived experience can all influence how someone makes sense of what they are feeling, whether they speak about it and where they turn for support.

There are important implications here for psychological practice in elite sport and high-performance environments too.

Athletes enter high-performance environments with a history, culture, community, identity and their own ways of understanding and responding to threat and distress. Understanding the cultural nuances behind the ways athletes might respond to distress is central to our ability to offer meaningful psychological support to individuals and systems.

Congratulations to Obss on an important contribution to this area of research.

Read the full paper: https://connectionsmentalhealth.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000040

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Why a service approach to psychological support delivers for high-performance? 🎯For many leaders, psychological support ...
01/09/2026

Why a service approach to psychological support delivers for high-performance? 🎯

For many leaders, psychological support begins with an individual role or a single expert. That can help, but in our experience, high‑performing environments are rarely that simple.

A service-based approach looks at the whole performance system. It brings together different areas of expertise, established ways of working, and continuity over time, so support can flex to meet changing needs across athletes, staff, and leadership teams.

The result is a more connected approach to performance, wellbeing and what matters most to the performance system.

Leaders have access to the right expertise at the right time. Teams benefit from shared insight and collective experience. Organisations gain support that can evolve alongside their ambitions.

For us, it’s about providing the right support, when it’s needed, in a way that creates consistency, clarity, and confidence for the people you lead.

Interested in what that could look like in your organisation? Let’s chat ⤵️

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Very proud our own Dr Alex Turner, who kicked off this year's Postgraduate Research Conference at Department of Sport Sc...
20/08/2026

Very proud our own Dr Alex Turner, who kicked off this year's Postgraduate Research Conference at Department of Sport Science at Prifysgol Bangor University with a talk on the value of bringing yourself into your work. 💼

It's a question we come back to a lot: how much of "you" shows up in what you do, and what happens when there's a gap between the two?

Well done also to the conference award winners, Taylor Williams, Nia Williams and Freya Losvik, and thanks to everyone involved in putting the day together.
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Last month, Andrew Rogers, our co-Founder, spoke at the TASS Conference on the hidden psychology of sustainable high per...
13/08/2026

Last month, Andrew Rogers, our co-Founder, spoke at the TASS Conference on the hidden psychology of sustainable high performance. 🧠

One of the key messages was simple: performance challenges rarely exist in isolation. They are shaped by the environments, relationships and cultures people operate within every day.

In high-performance sport, we ask a great deal of athletes, coaches and support staff. Yet the psychological impact of constant pressure, uncertainty and expectation over time often remains invisible until it emerges as burnout, disengagement or performance that cannot be sustained.

Drawing on experience across elite sport, NHS, and Criminal Justice, Andrew Rogers explored why understanding context is often the key to understanding performance, and importantly what to do about it.

The session also introduced Performing Well®️ and highlighted how approaches such as shared formulation and The SMART Tool™️ can help create environments that support psychological readiness, resilience and belonging, maximising performance, whilst reducing the potential risks.

A huge thank you to TASS for the invitation and to everyone who contributed to such thoughtful discussions throughout the conference.

What role do you think culture and environment play in sustaining high performance over time? 🏃

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06/08/2026

For the past 19 years, supporting women's sport through psychology has been a core part of what we do. We've seen first-hand the difference psychological support can make, not just to athletes, but to coaches, support staff and the environments around them. 📣

It's encouraging to see psychology increasingly recognised as a key part of helping women in sport perform and thrive sustainably.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be exploring the unique psychological demands, pressures and opportunities in women's sport, and sharing insights into what it takes to create environments where people can perform at their best, for the long term.

What questions do you have about psychology in women's sport? Let us know below 👇

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So proud of our own Dr Susan Wood this week. World Cup gold with England Women's O35s, her 50th England cap, and a goal ...
05/08/2026

So proud of our own Dr Susan Wood this week. World Cup gold with England Women's O35s, her 50th England cap, and a goal in the final for good measure. 🏑

Captaining a team to a title like that takes more than skill on the pitch. It takes leading through pressure, building strong relationships, creating space for people to play to their strengths, and communicating with clarity when it matters most.

All things we talk about often, and brilliant to see lived out at the highest level.

Huge congratulations, Sue, this is thoroughly deserved. 🥇

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Very proud of our own Sport Psychologist in training Kate Walsh, who spent last week at the FEPSAC European Federation o...
22/07/2026

Very proud of our own Sport Psychologist in training Kate Walsh, who spent last week at the FEPSAC European Federation of Sport Psychology in Timişoara. 📣

She opened the week as part of a symposium on rethinking the performance and wellbeing relationship in elite sport, speaking to why that debate looks different for women.

Later in the week, she presented two of her own PhD studies, exploring what protects and promotes mental health in world-class female athletes, and what changes they say are needed to support them properly.

Well done Kate! 👏

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Changing Minds Performance Services · psychological services for better , better , better .

🌐 changingmindsuk.com
📞 01925 483069
📧 [email protected]

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