Our Story
Our founders first recognised the powerful potential of digital behavioural change programs in 2011 when they combined their expertise in web development with a personal commitment to improving their own mental health. The company has pioneered Digital Treatments as a Service (DTaaS) for over a decade, with a unique scalable enterprise platform that deploys our digital treatments through a secure management portal. The Wellmind Workplace service addresses the unmet needs of employees, job seekers and employers, supporting people struggling with mental health and chronic pain to enter the workforce or stay in work and thrive.
The company’s clinically validated, evidence-based programs have helped over 150,000 people take control of their mental health, manage chronic pain more effectively, and support their journey through addiction recovery. We are committed to delivering high-quality, data-driven digital interventions that create a lasting impact on individuals, healthcare services, companies, and society.
We take great pride in the outstanding user feedback our programs generate and the regulatory compliance accreditations they receive. Our digital treatments are class 1 medical devices and maintain international recognized standards for clinical safety, data protection, technical security, interoperability, usability and accessibility.
Many millions of people experience mental health issues and suffer from chronic pain on a daily basis. Anxiety, depression and addiction take their toll. They have a deep impact on individual lives, careers and futures, affect partners and family members, and require significant levels of care and support from health services. Whether accessed via clinicians, employers or by individuals themselves, our digital treatments are here to help people take control and lead a better quality of life.
Our Platform
Our enterprise platform is unique, designed exclusively for the scalable development, deployment and delivery of on-demand health behaviour change programs and the reporting of their effectiveness with real-time clinical data.
The platform's user-friendly secure web-based Management Portal delivers best-in-class functionality and world-leading clinical data. It enables healthcare professionals and employers to manage program participants, monitor engagement and satisfaction in real time, and report on their self-assessed health outcomes using a variety of clinical outcome measurements at granular and aggregated levels.
Security, SAFETY AND INTEROPERABILITY
The platform fully complies with the regulatory standards for Class 1 medical device deployment in health and social care settings.
It offers a fully featured, extensible API, with role-based permissions that enable integration with healthcare systems. It's security-focused, cloud-based architecture adheres to strict security, compliance, and risk management controls.
Leadership
Heather Cook
CEO
Will Mulder
CTO & CO-FOUNDER
Richard Latham
CO-FOUNDER & HEAD OF OUTREACH
Mark Hunt
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Dr Simon Leigh
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Rebecca Millard
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Sarah Germaney
CLIENT SUCCESS DIRECTOR
Amy Dron
HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS
Jess Latham
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Professor Lee Smith
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Dr Claire Gillvray
CLINICAL ADVISOR
John O Dowd FRCS
CLINICAL SAFETY OFFICER
"Research on the impact of mindfulness on craving and trigger management has increased. Be Mindful is a vital element of our complementary CBT, mindfulness and wellness CTAC programme. It's proven efficacy, educational elements, and on-demand mobile nature are of huge value in supporting our clients."
"The figures are at par with any of the pain management programmes running, or slightly better."
"Pathway through Pain is now integral to our service. It improves the quality life of the patients we serve."
"We've provided staff with a whole range of mental health support resources, including Be Mindful. One of the driving forces at the start was the flexibility of the Be Mindful programme, allowing people to self-manage, and do it when it fits them best."
"I call it a gold standard. We frequently quote the user feedback because the reviews we receive are profoundly moving. Some people achieve a recovery using Be Mindful that would be almost difficult for any clinical service to achieve."
"Pathway through Pain is now integral to our pain service. It improves the quality of life of the patients we serve - and its improved my quality of life no end; I don’t tell patient after patient the same thing time and again in my clinic - the course does it for me!"
“The evidence base behind Be Mindful is highly reassuring. For us as a public health team, evidence and evaluation are key, so being able to look at the data ourselves in real-time on the management portal, as well as the published research studies, is hugely valuable.”
“The flexibility in the course delivery has been excellent, enabling staff to complete the lessons in their own time - and the results achieved by those completing have been very encouraging.”
"Pathway through Pain has opened up a cohort of patients we weren't able to access previously. Housebound patients with internet access are now able to benefit from a virtual pain pathway and PTP is important in their psychoeducation."
"Very easy to measure the impact and report results into our corporate health and safety group."
"Always a quick response from the administrators if needing additional support or support for clients. Issues dealt with promptly and effectively (although there aren't many). Clients tell us it is easy to use, although at times 'challenging' (in that the material 'opens their eyes' to different opportunities to experience good mental health). All round good service and value of money"
"Pathway through Pain is what I call 'a strong tool', one that we can trust. Our clinicians, technology and projects team have all been involved in its onboarding, so we are very clear about its value. We're really pleased to have it available now as an integral component of our pain service."
"The data we provide allows services to validate the effectiveness of these tools, providing clinicians and therapists the ability to accurately monitor their patients and have this data as part of a single patient record."
"When we first started Prism, it was challenging for some clinicians to recognise the benefits of digital. Working with partners like Wellmind Health has changed all of that, because clinicians now have the reassurance that they can interact with the digital platforms to capture data and see exactly what's happening with each patient. The data we provide allows services to validate the effectiveness of these tools, providing clinicians and therapists the ability to accurately monitor their patients and have this data as part of a single patient record."
"The figures are at par with any of the pain management programmes running, or slightly better. The advantage of this kind of technology is that you don't have to see the patient every week - there is simply less of a requirement for direct patient contact. While closely monitored by their clinician, patients are empowered to learn and self-manage."
"The online service quickly became an important part of the pain management programme, sometimes as a stand alone intervention and sometimes alongside other courses of treatment."
"We always enjoyed speaking to the Wellmind Health technical team - having great conversations that explored possibilities and clarified exactly how the systems would work together. It's been a really enjoyable and productive partnership."
"Be Mindful is extremely helpful for our clients. It is a great relapse prevention measure and I have had reports that they continue to practice long after the programme has finished. As for the support from Be Mindful admin, it is second to none."
"Making Be Mindful available to all our staff has provided a highly effective, self-help solution they can access anonymously and in their own time."
“The Wellmind Health team is very responsive if we have any queries and is supportive of our needs. They recently helped at short notice to make amends to wording on promotional materials ahead of a promotional event, which was extremely successful thanks to their input.”
"Engaging in the Pathway through Pain program has absolutely been a positive change in the way that we work. Activating someone on the program is straightforward, which is definitely helping with wait times."
"I've had some good feedback from patients. It's particularly helpful as a precursor to a pain clinic referral as it's something they can start on immediately and I don't feel like I've just left them waiting."
"The advantage of this technology is that you don’t have to see the patient every week – there is simply less of a requirement for direct contact. While closely monitored by their clinician, patients are empowered to learn and self-manage."
"Be Mindful is great. Large reductions in client anxiety is a crucial outcome as it's a primary trigger of substance abuse. The solid research and data behind Be Mindful provided the validation we required to adopt it and our program results are fantastic."
“We know that employee stress and anxiety can come from any angle – at both work and home – but we also know that talking therapies are not suited to everyone. Making Be Mindful available to all our staff has provided a highly effective, self-help solution they can access anonymously and in their own time.”
"I call it a gold standard. We frequently quote the user feedback because the reviews we receive are profoundly moving. Some people achieve a recovery using Be Mindful that would be almost difficult for any clinical service to achieve."
“Pathway through Pain is now integral to our pain service. It improves the quality of life of the patients we serve - and its improved my quality of life no end; I don’t tell patient after patient the same thing time and again in my clinic - the course does it for me!“
"I've found the uptake of Be Mindful to be excellent. The provider is extremely efficient & accommodating. The platform allows me to see participant progress & engagement with simple reporting, saves me time & demonstrates impact to commissioners. Most importantly, practitioners find it a useful tool to move people closer to work by helping them better manage their mental health"
"Engaging in the Pathway through Pain programme has absolutely been a positive change in the way that we work. Activating someone on the programme is really quick, and it's quite easy which is definitely helping with wait times."
“Pathway through Pain is a core element of our service. Patients don’t have to wait for treatments to fail before they are offered the programme - very often they go on the programme after just 1 or 2 sessions of seeing us.”
"Activating someone on the programme is really quick, which is definitely helping with wait times."
"Having Pathway through Pain to access enabled us to move to a fully digital pathway."
“What's amazing for me is that once people have learned these Mindfulness techniques, they keep using them. Receiving so many stories of participants’ lived experience is also really important. It's not just about statistical measurements, it's actually making a significant difference to someone’s life.”