🧠✨ Free Mental Health Coaching Programme for Ethnic Minorities ✨🧠
8 Empowering Sessions | Culturally Sensitive | Holistic | 1:1
🌍 Feel unseen in your mental health journey? You’re not alone.
Many of us from ethnic minority backgrounds face barriers that make reaching out feel impossible:
✔️ Cultural stigma
✔️ Lack of culturally competent care
✔️ Financial strain
✔️ Systemic inequality
We hear you. That’s why this programme was created — to give you a safe, empowering space rooted in shared experience, cultural awareness, and real solutions.
🌿 Introducing: Mental Health Coaching for Ethnic Minorities
Created by Berta Kaguako. This free coaching programme is not therapy — it’s an emotionally supportive, psychosocial space tailored for those who want to take control of their mental and emotional wellbeing.
Berta Kaguako is a Health & Social Care Consultant, with a background in psychotherapy, mental health, substance misuse, children and families, parenting assessments, senior management, clinical governance & sits as a lay panel member for primary & secondary school appeals. Throughout her career, she has formulated and implemented various training programmes and 1:1 Health Coaching, Mental Health Coaching, Substance Misuse Psychosocial Interventions. These have been successful with positive feedback from service users.
Berta is also a patient, living with various chronic illnesses, and uses a holistic approach to successfully manage her health & wellbeing. Using her professional experience and lived experience, Berta has devised a tailored programme to support individuals to explore their wellbeing and how they can implement a holistic approach to improve on and sustain their wellbeing…
💡 What You’ll Gain
Through structured coaching, reflective tools, and a holistic model, you’ll explore:
🧠 Mental health awareness
🧘🏽♀️ Mindfulness practices to ease daily stress
💪🏾 Building resilience
🧩 Emotion and stress management tools
🌱 Holistic health: sleep, nutrition, movement
🤝 Culturally sensitive space with shared understanding
🔗 Support in accessing services — you’ll take the lead, but you won’t be alone
🗓️ Programme Format
- 8 sessions, delivered fortnightly over 16 weeks
- Sundays @ 12pm (standard)
- 10:30am – 2pm (for trial participants only)
- Includes 1:1 coaching, personalised assessments, tailored wellbeing plans, and a final discharge safety plan
🚨 Limited Availability! As a solo coach, I can only take one cohort at a time (2 persons at a time). Once this round starts, the next won’t be until after 16 weeks. If you’re ready to do the work, now’s the time.
✨ While you wait or in the meantime, check out the upcoming Wellness Arena – where we’ll soon offer FREE Mindfulness Workshops open to all.
Session Breakdown
1. Mental Health History Assessment
Explore your personal history, current challenges, support network & coping strategies.
2. Mental Health Awareness
Understand mental health and the value of mental fitness and self-care.
3. Building Resilience
Use mindfulness and positive reframing to build emotional balance and inner strength.
4. Managing Stress
Learn healthy ways to handle stress, solve problems, and resolve conflict.
5. Coping Mechanisms & Managing Emotions
Understand emotional triggers, unhealthy habits, and develop a personal coping toolkit.
6. Holistic Health
Explore how exercise, sleep, and nutrition support mental and physical health.
7. The Roads to Wellbeing
Connect the dots through the 5 Ways to Wellbeing and holistic health models.
8. Discharge & Safety Planning
Create a personalised plan to recognise relapse signs, manage triggers, and stay on track.
🔐 Programme Requirements
To take part, you must:
✅ Be 18+ and living in the UK (ID required)
✅ Be from an ethnic minority background
✅ Have a formal or suspected mental health diagnosis
✅ Be willing to participate fully and consistently
✅ Have a device with camera, mic, and internet
✅ Provide a GP summary of care and give consent to contact your GP
✅ Complete all required forms, assessments, and weekly homework
✅ We also welcome all cannabis users, whether medical or recreational, also known as ‘adult use’.
❌ You will not be eligible if:
- You do not meet the inclusion criteria or are unwilling to follow programme guidelines
- You are experiencing a mental health crisis
- You have a pre-existing relationship with the facilitator
- If you are not willing to engage in the programme fully, this includes attending on time and completing homework
We know taking the next step is quite scary and you might feel like you don’t meet the criteria, but remember, you are just as important as anyone else, and this work is to help you to get ready, we will support you every step of the way, if you’re willing to work with us.
🚨 Zero-Tolerance Policy
We are committed to creating a safe, respectful, and productive space for healing.
You may be discharged from the programme if you:
- Miss sessions without notice or arrive late more than once
- Refuse to engage with tasks or discussions
- Break confidentiality or safety boundaries
- Disrupt the session or are violent, aggressive or threating towards the facilitator
💬 Apply Now — First Come, First Serve
🌐 Apply on our website: Application now live!
📧 Questions? Contact us: bertak@zohomail.eu
Spaces are limited, and we only run one cohort at a time (2 people). Don’t miss this opportunity to reclaim your wellbeing in a space designed for you, by someone like you.
💪🏾 Let’s grow, heal & reclaim our wellness — together.
Empowerment starts with you. 🌱
✨ Bonus: Coming Soon…
🎉 Join our upcoming Wellness Arena, launching soon with FREE mindfulness workshops — open to all.
Note – all data is stored in line with the data protection act 2018.
Applications for Mental Health Coaching
Please download and fill out all the forms, we know it may be extensive, however this will support you in the long run, as it means less paperwork and more engagement during sessions, and we want to invest as much time in you as possible. Once you have completed the forms and returned all the documentation highlighted on your checklist, then please return application to: WE ARE CURRENTLY FULL FOR THIS ROUND OF SESSIONS.
Please follow us on our socials, and we will notify everyone in the new year, when the next round of sessions are out, and in the meantime, enjoy our expansive educational platform, holistic hacks, and many more…
Additional Resources
Please see attached helpful resources; we highly recommend you download.
For a list of crisis support services, please check out our safeguarding platform: https://www.ethvida.com/category/safeguarding-awareness/
If you are in crisis, please contact 111 immediately or present to the nearest A&E, to get specialist support.