Minoo Briscoe - NHS Senior Team Leader, Wandsworth & Sutton
Minoo Briscoe is a Senior Team Leader for NHS Wandsworth and Sutton Talking Therapies within The Awareness Centre. Her role also includes holding a weekly caseload of clients, supporting our therapists and coordinating aspects of the operational functions within the NHS service provision.
Minoo is passionate about empowering clients within talking therapy; and draws upon her person-centred approach and specific training in Counselling for Depression to provide short-term, evidence-based treatments for clients experiencing mild to moderate depression.
After several years in retail and other industries, Minoo brings experience of working with a vast number of people with diversity, listening to their needs and reducing barriers to supportive services. She feels that she can offer essential insights informed by her day-to-day experience within a range of careers and focus areas. She also enjoys mentoring and managing other therapists within her role.
Minoo is a qualified integrative counsellor and a member of the BACP.
I was sceptical on how effective therapy would be but seeing as my life was a total mess with me having no joy, no hope and no clue on how to deal with it I thought I may as well give it a go. I’m extremely happy I did. On 28th of September, which was the day before my first session, I was as low as could have possibly got – I didn’t want to socialise, I didn’t want to go to work, I didn’t want have any contact with anyone to the point where I had hardly been outside the house for the best part of a year! With Minoo’s help however, my life has changed dramatically. She managed to get me to ask questions of myself – questions I would never have even thought about without her assistance – and I now feel empowered enough to make drastic changes. Now I’m not going to say that my life is now perfect and there is quite a way to go but for the first time in a long time (and by long I mean at least 6 years) I feel like I have the ability and the strength to change things around. Like I said at the beginning, I was sceptical on how effective Therapy would be but after the sessions I’ve had with Minoo for the last 3 months I would recommend it (and have been) to anyone who is struggling with there mental health as she has really helped my to turn things around!Thank you Minoo – you really have helped me more that I can put into words!
These sessions have dramatically changed my outlook and questioned my perspectives on life. They have guided me to reconnect to a sense of purpose, to unpack all of the complexities I could not make sense of. Minoo has so eloquently supported me on a journey to unlock and give myself permission to process my grief. To look into those darker corners with strength and pride. To take on new opportunities by believing in myself again. I am so grateful that I was given this service, to support my mental health at such a rocky and devastating time. Thank you Minoo for all of your time, energy and awareness, I will forever hold onto the newfound reflections these sessions have provided for my current and future self.
I started this process with very little self-esteem or even like for myself. Minoo helped me be more understanding of myself and even start to like myself. Without this help I would inevitably still be in a terrible place.
