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Meet The Team

Hi, we’re Shyaam and Lauren, Co-Founders of Young Black Psych. A social enterprise company specialising in spreading awareness and providing useful, easy-to-use resources for children and young people’s mental health within the BME community.

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Hover over our pictures to get to know us a little more.

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Shyaam Bundy

Co-Founder & CEO

Shyaam is a writer, podcaster and Psychology graduate from Nottingham Trent University; now working as a Mental Health & Therapeutic Play worker in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). 

 

In this role, he offers low-intensity psycho-therapeutic work with children and adolescents who are experiencing both common and more complex mental health difficulties. Prior to this, he has trained as a Therapeutic Play Worker at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London. He also has experience working in a play-based therapeutic manner with early years and secondary aged children.

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Lauren Fernandes

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Lauren is a First Class BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduate from the University of Hertfordshire. 

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She enjoys using her artistic and creative skills such as design, photography and illustration to create innovative and unique content.

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Besides running and designing for Young Black Psych, Lauren is also a freelance Graphic Designer, specialising in logo & brand identity, product design and video editing. 

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Our Journey

We have put together a little timeline of our achievements for you to follow...

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We officially launched Young Black Psych as a company.

We reached our £5k target on our Kickstarter campaign.

We launched the pre-sale for our first mental health resource.

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First batch of 50 orders ready to be posted!

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Guest speakers for the Redbridge Race & Equality Awareness Scheme.

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