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behind MindBerry

Sandra de Monte
Founder & Head of Client Relations

Sandra founded MindBerry in 2016. She is a UK qualified Integrative Psychotherapist and a certified Online Counsellor. Beside her private practice she has worked as a Student Counsellor for the Royal College of Art in London for many years. Her experiences as a mental health professional, supporting large companies and their employees on their mental wellbeing journey, helped her transform MindBerry into what it is today.

Hugo Phillips
Managing Director

Hugo is a board-level executive experienced in using cutting-edge technology to produce user-friendly solutions. Over the course of his career, Hugo became cognisant of the need to address mental health concerns in the workplace and the positive potential of technology to address these concerns. Hugo brings invaluable insights to the team.

Christian Mogele
Head of Operations

Christian is the co-founder of MindBerry. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Psychology, a postgraduate certificate in psychodynamic counselling and a certificate in online counselling. During his placement working at the NHS, he began to develop the idea for MindBerry as an online counselling & coaching platform and helped scale the company into a leading mental wellness platform. He is passionate about connecting people and interested in mental wellbeing.

John Wilkinson
Chief Partnership Officer

John has extensive experience in investment and relationship management. He has held a number of executive roles in the investment management industry, building enduring relationships with institutional clients. Through strategic partnerships and personalised solutions, John ensures that MindBerry has a meaningful impact on individuals as we help create happier, healthier, supportive work environments.

Mike Thompson
Chief Technology Officer

Mike has worked in the digital healthcare industry for over 25 years, originally working with and managing complex call centre solutions for the UK National Health Service. Mike has designed and created some of the world’s leading decision support systems used in healthcare today, and is actively responsible for developing comprehensive risk modelling and wellbeing assessments for mortality and morbidity, based on the research of epidemiologists, in the health and insurance sectors.

A group of people who oversee our ethical framework and ensure that we adhere to the highest standards of professional conduct. They are also responsible for evaluating clinical professionals before they join the MindBerry team and for monitoring the efficacy of our clinical programmes.

Dr Richard Scott
(BSC MRES PGDIP PSYCHD Private Practice, Clinical Psychologist)

Richard worked in the NHS in the UK between 2010-2018 in a range of services, including dementia, general mental health and neuropsychology, before working in vocational rehabilitation and day patient programmes within the renowned Wolfson Neurorehab centre. In 2018 he moved to Munich, Germany, where he is working as a Practitioner Psychologist in private practice. His thesis was on help seeking intentions, masculinity and emotional intelligence. Richard is an HCPC registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist.

Sandra de Monte
(PGDIP Integrative Psychotherapist, Founder MindBerry)

Sandra founded MindBerry in 2016. She is a UK qualified Integrative Psychotherapist and a certified Online Counsellor. Beside her private practice she has worked as a Student Counsellor for the Royal College of Art in London for many years. Her experiences as a mental health professional, supporting large companies and their employees on their mental wellbeing journey, helped her transform MindBerry into what it is today.

Daniel Wend
(PGDIP Psychologist, Head of Psychosocial Department at the Deutsche Lufthansa)

Daniel is passionate about leadership, mental health and career development. Daniel has extensive leadership, psychosocial counselling and corporate experience in the area of mental health, making him fluent in business language and able to come up with practical solutions for both personal and professional questions. Specialist training in conflict management, trauma and crisis intervention and leadership transformation.

Alison Thorogood
(Certified Leadership & Development Trainer & Coach – ICF)

For 20+ years, Alison has specialised as a Learning & Development Manager developing and delivering the strategic L&D agenda across a variety of hospitality & retail businesses. Alison is passionate about one to one working and this has led her to further specialise in leadership and wellbeing coaching. Alison is a certified member and associate certified coach of the ICF (International Coaching Federation).

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