Shelley-Anne Salisbury talks to Arabella Tresilian, The Mental Health First Aid Mediator

02/21/22 • 30 min

My guest in this episode is Arabella Tresilian, a CEDR-accredited mediator specialising in mental ill-health, social care and the workplace. She undertakes mediation cases related to Judicial Reviews, Court of Protection, Mental Health Act, Local Authorities, and the NHS - as well as undertaking employment and community cases involving people with mental ill-health. Arabella practices independently and for the Medical Mediation Foundation and Resolve West. She is also an approved Mental Health First Aid instructor and workplace mental health trainer. In 2021, she ran the UK's first Mental Health First Aid course specifically for mediators.

Arabella says:

I help dedicated professionals resolve distressing disputes and disagreements using my psychologically-safe, confidential resolution process, so that parties can get on with their lives and flourish again.”

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