Emma Davies

Emma Davies

Owner of Essential Self – a service providing mental health and wellbeing support to businesses and individuals. This is done in 3 ways: Wellbeing at Work, Coaching for Women and Mental Health Coaching.

I offer a pragmatic, no nonsense approach to wellbeing.

My current goals are: 

- To connect with people, help them connect with themselves, and help them move forwards without fear.

- Help businesses provide authentic, meaningful mental health support rather than implementing tick-box gestures.

- Help people realise mental illness is part of being human. I’d like people to stop over-glamourising mental health and turning it into something fashionable. I’d also like people to move away from ideas of perfection about what it means to be human, to stop competing, to stop working towards stereotypes, cliches and caricatures eg the aspiration to live certain lifestyles.

3 achievements:

- keeping going – gaining qualifications, holding down job!

- Family

- Overcoming mental health issues

Fun fact: I used to do stand-up comedy in pubs in London.