Meet the team
The work of the Mental Health and Counselling Team
As we know there is ever increasing demand for mental health and counselling support, the Mental Health and Counselling Team is a team of professional staff who lead the partnership in continuing to develop their professional practice, skills, and knowledge within the area of student mental health support.
We create strategy, policy, and guidance documents to ensure development of existing services, practices, and procedures to enhance the student experience and safeguard all.
We also support students directly through our Green Button online counselling service, emergency and crisis support, and specialist workshop delivery.
We support the staff throughout the partnership, who provide support to students when they are experiencing difficulties with their mental health. We do this through the co-ordination and delivery of training, bespoke support and supervision, development of resources, offer psychological interventions, drop-ins, and run a variety of Practitioner Networks.
We also co-ordinate the work of the Healthy Body Healthy Mind programme, in conjunction with Student Support Team, run the UHI Health and Wellbeing Facebook page and support HISA with the development and delivery of the Student Mental Health Agreement.
Mental Health and Counselling Manager
Mental Health and Counselling Manager
Allie Scott leads on the direction and strategic implementation of the mental health and counselling support we offer to all our students across our partnership. She has responsibility for the overarching Student Mental Health Strategy and implementation of this across our institutions; this includes single policy and guidance documents, data collection, professional practice, staff training, support, and supervision (Student Support and Counselling staff) and coordinating our external support provision. She also manages the University’s Online Counselling Service and offers counselling to our students.
For further information please contact Allie
Regional Mental Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinator
Regional Mental Health and Wellbeing Co-ordinator
Lorna Ferguson leads on a number of initiatives for the partnership, including the development of the university's Mental Health and Counselling Policy. Lorna's role involves cross partnership working in the development of learning and training opportunities to support the mental health and wellbeing of both our staff and our students. This has included the development of a Concerned Parent Protocol, for staff, creation and development of the new Suicide and Risk Intervention Policy and guidance as well as delivery of Suicide Intervention training and Reflective Practitioner Groups. Further work that she is involved in includes; development of gender based violence and mental wellbeing training and interventions, working with the Careers Team to explore mental health and its impact on careers as well as exploring Peer Support options, for students, with HISA.
For further information, please contact Lorna