Ruth Cooper-Dickson BA (Hons), MA, MSc.

I’m an award-winning qualified positive psychology practitioner, accredited trauma-informed well-being coach, certified breathwork leader and qualified fitness instructor.  I published my academic research on coaching and post-traumatic growth in 2023. This is an area I am hugely passionate about. It is the essence of how my Thrivership Coaching™️ supports others to grow and flourish, after experiencing adversity and pain.

I started my corporate wellbeing business eight years ago after my own experience of poor mental health and mental ill health diagnosis – generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder and chronic burnout. This journey has led me to (amongst other things) teach Mental Health First Aid England training, and grief and loss training with the bereavement charity CRUSE. I’m a patron of the national anxiety charity No Panic, and I’m always involved in Mental Wealth advocacy projects and campaigns. I was diagnosed with ADHD (hyperactivity/impulsivity) in 2022, which has given me a deep insight into my brain and behaviours, plus how I have often struggled in the world of work as someone who is neurodivergent.

I work with individuals, brands, and charities to help them start an open, honest, and human conversation on the topic of mental health. I’m currently writing a book on post-traumatic growth to get the message out there. I’m represented by the fabulous Morwenna Loughman at BKS Agency. I love that my work has taken me to diverse environments – from multinational corporations to refugee camps and favelas.

I live in Hertfordshire so you will find me out and about running on trails in the woods, I am competing in my first ultra-trail marathon in 2024. When the weather doesn’t allow for trails, I am in the boxing gym boosting those happy hormones, I sometimes instruct the odd class when needed!  I am a coffee and cake lover, avid book reader (always in my local library) and I’m a fan of going to the movies – I’m a sci-fi/action movie nerd.