Meet Katrin Viella -
your success coach
My story so far...
Hi, I'm Katrin Viella, founder of 'Feel-Good Parenting' - a movement of mental health empowerment for parents. I'm a highly accomplished, global mental health educator and coach with 25 years experience in the field of psychology and mental health. From a very young age I always had a feeling that how mental health was treated and spoken about wasn't very helpful for anyone. I knew instinctively that there MUST be a better way and guess what - I really have found these better ways and share these with as many people as possible now. I spent years studying psychology and mental health, then delivering global mental health training and leading a fully accredited academy for the biggest mental health charity in the UK 'Mind'. For the last 5 years I've worked as an expert partner and associate trainer delivering mostly leadership development and corporate mental health training. I started to get remarkable results for my clients but it struck me how many professional are rather struggling to support their own children's mental health. No real surprise though - we don't get a manual or parenting handbook especially when it comes to mental health crisis! I had gone through the same journey myself, raising our three children (now 14, 17 and 19) but I had the significant advantage of knowledge, tools and lots of experience in early intervention strategies.
I've made plenty of mistakes on the way and still have my moments of emotional rollercoaster as a parent - but overall I feel READY and confident for anything.
That's why I've created the 'Feel-Good Parenting'-Method, so you can learn this too in a MUCH shorter space of time than myself. This is the parenting manual I really wish I would have had 20 years ago - it would have saved me and our family so much pain, overwhelm, loneliness and confusion!
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Discover 'Feel-Good Parenting'My vision: Feel-Good Parenting Around the Globe
My vision is to empower families with the knowledge and skills to provide effective mental health intervention within their own family homes. Empowered with positive parenting approaches and preventative methods of emotional self-regulation, parents can create a family environment where everyone has a better understanding of basic psychology and the core human experience. Through a holistic, non-clinical and body-heart-mind approach, we can reduce issues and foster better connections with ourselves and others, leading to more empathic and understanding conversations. With a clearer understanding of the role we can play as parents, increased awareness, early detection of warning signs and knowing how to support others and ourselves better we can create healthier, happier and harmonious family support to those we care about the most!
Our Family
This is me with my four loved ones. Parenting is one the biggest adventures of life and I love being a mum!
But I won't lie, it also comes with a lot of challenges and discoveries about yourself too. I'm always open and real about my own experiences. I believe clinical evidence and best practice is very helpful, but it also needs to be practical and useful in REAL life!
My Qualifications:
Degrees
University of Manchester, UK - Level 7 module and research project in Asset Based Community Development; Public Health | March - July 2017
The Open University, UK - BSc Psychology 2:1 | Feb 2012 - June 2016
University of Marburg, Germany - Level 7 modules in business, cross-cultural, organisational, educational and clinical psychology; Diplom Psychologie (partial completion) | 2001 - 2003
University of Regensburg, Germany - Level 6 Vordiplom Psychologie | 1999 - 2001
Licenses
Adult MHFAider: 2-day, 1 day, half day, refresher
Youth MHFA instructor: 2 day
Certificates
L3 Assessor Certificate (Edexcel)
L3 Managing Mental Health
L3 Emotional Freedom Technique ('Tapping') Diploma
L3 Mindfulness Diploma
L3 Life Coaching Diploma
ASIST training (suicide intervention)
Suicide First Aid
Suicide postvention training (PABBS)
Suicide prevention
Safeguarding and Prevent
Diversity and Inclusion
Level 5 Diploma Management in Health and Social Care, C&Gs (partial completion)
HR management training
MIND Leadership development programme including action learning set facilitation, coaching and TotalSDI analysis
Loss and bereavement
Trauma informed practice
Motivational interviewing
Managing potential and actual aggression in mental health settings
Currently studying:
L4 Advanced CBT Diploma
L3 Transactional Analysis
L3 Meditation Teacher Diploma
L3 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
