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Meet Karen Turner

With over 20 years' experience as a strategic HR professional, I bring a rare combination of corporate expertise and deeply human understanding to everything I do. My background spans senior HR leadership, organisational development, and culture change, and it's this foundation that shapes how I approach mental wellbeing, not as a tick-box exercise, but as a genuine business and human imperative.

In 2019, I moved into child development, serving as Business Director of two specialist centres providing therapeutic interventions for neurodivergent children, including speech and language therapy, sensory integration, praxis testing and ABA.

I also served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of a charity supporting families of children with additional needs, giving me firsthand experience of both the operational and emotional challenges families face when navigating education, diagnosis and support systems.

This gave me an insider understanding of the systems, language and challenges that families, educators and professionals navigate daily.

Today I work with businesses, schools, public sector organisations and parents, bringing together strategic HR expertise, trauma-informed practice and lived experience to create environments where people can actually function at their best

My Qualifications


  • ICF Somatic Trauma Informed Coach

  • Level 7/PG Dip Diploma in Strategic HR Management (CIPD)

  • Chartered MCIPD

  • Master NLP Practitioner (ABNLP)

  • Diploma in Hypnotherapy (HMI)

  • Mindfulness Teacher (TMA)

A Message From Caroline Strawson

CEO & Founder of The Mental Wellbeing Company

Caroline Strawson is a globally recognised mental health and nervous system educator, therapist, and coach.

She has lived experience of homelessness, domestic abuse, debt, and mental illness. Having not only survived, she has gone on to become a world-leading expert in the study and education of mental health and human behaviour. Caroline brings a wealth of knowledge to her mission of making mental health and trauma mainstream subjects for all.

Through founding the Mental Wellbeing Company, she is leading a movement to make trauma informed awareness and positive psychology tools the norm in schools, workplaces, public sector organisations, and beyond.

Her vision is a world where every human understands their nervous system, leading to more compassion, passion, resilience, and thriving.

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Healing is not a destination, but as your journey unfolds and you heal yourself, you heal the next generation, too.

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