The Vaillant Podcast is a heating industry podcast designed to support installers with every aspect of their working lives: from mental health to marketing, fitness to finances; installers can tune in to learn how to enhance their learning, earnings and wellbeing. 

In this episode, installer and mental health advocate Gary Bedford speaks to expert Lauretta Wilson about how tradespeople can manage their mental health and support those around them. 

Lauretta is a HCPC and BPS-registered counselling psychologist with more than 20 years' experience working with children and young adults, adults, couples and families in the NHS, voluntary and charity sectors. At her private practice, The London Psychologist Centre, Lauretta uses solution-focused therapies which empower people to learn better ways to manage their stresses and strains. 

Gary is a Gas Safe registered engineer with more than two decades of experience in the trade, and has his own company, GRB Plumbing & Heating Limited. Gary is an advocate for mental health in the trade, and has led a number of discussions around the topic on social media and in the press.

Need more guidance on managing mental health issues?

NHS resources for stress, anxiety and depression

www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/

MIND, the mental health charity

www.mind.org.uk

Mates in Mind, a charity addressing the stigma of poor mental health and promoting positive mental wellbeing across workplaces

www.matesinmind.org

The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), a movement against suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45

https://www.thecalmzone.net/

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