Olivia-Louise Hamilton (She/Her)

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Managing Director

Olivia is the Managing Director of Changing Minds Training, a national provider of mental health, wellbeing, and inclusion training. With almost a decade of experience, she works with professionals and organisations to build workplaces where mental health is talked about openly, inclusion is embedded in practice, and people have the skills to act before situations escalate.

Olivia specialises in taking complex and emotive topics and transforming them into simple, sensitive, and genuinely engaging sessions that professionals can put into practice straight away.

What makes her approach distinctive is the combination of professional expertise and personal lived experience. With a background spanning emergency services, psychiatric care, and frontline support work, Olivia also draws on her own recovery from mental illness, self-harm, and suicide attempts.

That experience doesn't just inform her work, it drives it. It's why she is so passionate about proactive, destigmatising mental health training that gives people the confidence to have difficult conversations before a crisis point is reached.

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June 9, 2026

Surviving Su*cide, Self-Harm and Bulimia | Olivia-Louise Hamilton

Olivia Hamilton is the founder of Changing Minds Training, a mental health training company that helps professionals have better, more human conversations about mental health, crisis and suicide prevention. In this episode of Life by Misadventure, Olivia talks openly about growing up in a chaotic home, struggling with self-harm from a young age, developing bulimia as a teenager, and living through suicide attempts, family breakdown and long waits for the right support. She also reflects on th...