Keelin Rea

Experience

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  Reachout

  Apr 2009 - Aug 2011

  Mental Health Intern

  My role included the following: - Promoting health and wellness through communications (blogs, social media content)- Increasing community knowledge of Reachout through the promotion of services on campus days.- Assisting with fundraising events in the local community to improve mental health awareness.

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  NHS

  Nov 2011 - Apr 2013

  Assistant Psychologist

  My role included the following: - Promoting health and wellness with patients, including stress reduction techniques.- Conducting interviews and behavioural change assessments with patients.- Helping patients understand the effects of illness and how to manage their conditions.- Educating patients about making healthy choices, such as diet, smoking cessation, and exercise.- Developing strategies or interventions that support improved health for patients, for example, care recommendations regarding addiction or diabetes.- Contributing to studies for publication in psychology and health-related journals. Show less

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  RICHMOND PSYCHOSOCIAL FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

  Feb 2012 - Sept 2012

  Mental Health Outreach Worker

  My role included the following: - Providing guidance and support service users.- Providing mental health interventions (CBT, coaching, and art therapy) to improve the wellbeing of service users.-Running in-house programmes to improve clients' wellbeing such as homework club and healthy food made simple.- Facilitating assessments concerning medical and housing needs promoting access for services users to secure housing, drug treatment, medical and mental health services, court support, and social welfare services.- Managing a caseload of approximately 5 clients.- Creating weekly specialised workshops/activities/information sessions for clients. Show less

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  Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary Services

  May 2014 - Aug 2016

  Key Worker (Mental Health & Disability Services)

  My duties included the following:- Participating in the rehabilitation of institutionalised residents with intellectual disabilities.- Advocating for clients and moving them into independent housing, sourcing employment, activities, and social functions for service users in their new communities. - Overseeing the running of community houses and creating and implementing person-centred care plans following HSE New Directions and HIQA requirements.- Conducting in-house social role valorisation and social inclusion training for staff. Show less

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  Intuitive Zen Coaching and Education

  Oct 2015 - Sept 2018

  Life Coach & Trainer

  My role included the following: - Helping community organisations build higher performing teams by giving clients the tools and support they need to thrive in all aspects of their lives.- Providing clients with personalised, data-driven coaching that helps them move towards their goals and experience positive shifts in their wellbeing.- Creating workshops/activities/information sessions for clients.- Providing 1-1 psychological and coaching support for teams and individuals.- Researching pre and post-intervention outcomes to measure the programmes' success. Show less

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  Salvation Army

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  Mental Health Project Worker

  My role included the following: - Providing support and creating a caring and therapeutic working relationship with service users.- Providing mental health interventions (CBT, coaching, and art therapy) to improve the wellbeing of service users.- Facilitating assessments concerning medical and housing needs promoting access for services users to secure housing, drug treatment, medical and mental health services, court support, and social welfare services.- Managing a caseload of approximately 12 clients.- Creating weekly specialised workshops/activities/information sessions for clients. Show less

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  Zevo Health - Workplace Wellness

  Sept 2018 - Mar 2020

  Corporate Psychologist

  My role included the following: - Providing specialised workshops/activities/information sessions for companies.- Executing qualitative and quantitative research on client sites to determine the drivers of low wellbeing. and making recommendations to increase wellbeing across teams.- Ensuring all wellbeing programmes were designed to deliver measurable impact.- Creating feedback forms for workshop and training attendees and working on that feedback to increase future learning outcomes.- Researching the outcomes of the wellbeing programmes on a post-intervention basis.- Creating content for Zevo's social media accounts.- Presenting and tendering for new commercial projects.- Providing teams and leaders with 1-1 therapy and coaching to improve their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.- Speaking on health and wellbeing topics to the media.- Leading projects on client sites. Show less

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  Threshold Training Network

  Mar 2020 - May 2021

  Mental Health Recovery Coordinator

  My role included the following: - Providing specialised workshops/activities/information sessions on mental health recovery.- Ensuring mental health recovery programmes were designed to deliver measurable impact.- Recruiting and managing trainers for on-site and online workshops- Creating feedback forms for workshop and training attendees and worked on that feedback to increase future learning outcomes.- Researching the outcomes of TTN programmes on a post-intervention basis.- Redesigning TTN's website and managing social media accounts.- Appling for funding and research opportunities for TTN's programmes.- Providing coaching to transform students' lives by supporting them to build their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing while developing their ability to engage with local services, set goals, and develop a life plan. Show less

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  Colour Me Alive Collective

  Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

  Co-Founder | Coaching Psychologist | Trainer

  My role included:- Collaborating with my co-founders to create coaching and wellbeing programmes to meet customer needs.- Design effective programmes to increase positive wellbeing outcomes for businesses we partnered with. - Development of webinars, workshops, and training with psychoeducational content and materials to increase learning and engagement.- Oversaw the rollout of onsite and online coaching and therapy programmes.- Researched the outcomes of programmes CMAC ran on a 6 and 9-month post intervention basis.- Provided 1-1 and group therapeutic interventions.- Created promotional and marketing materials for CMAC.- Managed CMAC's social media presence. Show less

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  Fettle

  Dec 2021 - now

  Director of Wellbeing Services

  My duties include:- Promoting and maintaining the ethos of Fettle, which is rooted in care and compassion. - Monitoring and supporting Fettle practitioners in delivering safe, high-quality therapeutic interventions.- Ensuring best practices across all service delivery.- Designing and delivering training and adapting innovative programmes and practices to improve clients' mental health outcomes, overseeing, enhancing, and managing social media campaigns across multiple platforms.- Ensuring on-site practitioners attend required supervision and continuous training and professional development.- Overseeing risk assessments and client assessments, supporting access to the service in line with our service model, and ensuring that risk management strategies are implemented and reviewed regularly.- People management across Fettle's wellbeing services of over 50 practitioners.- Overseeing rostering and ensuring compliance by on-site practitioners.- Publish high quality content and advertising on social media channels regularly and in line with guidelines within the marketing strategy, with the aim to build followers, enhance visibility, and drive engagement.- Create wellbeing programmes with varied delivery options, such as self-study, instructor-led, and peer-led programmes.- Develop and implement a digital content strategy to support organisations goals.- Develop new e-mail marketing campaigns regularly and oversee all press opportunities. Show less