The Rare Disease Podcast 4 Medics
Rareminds – Let's talk about mental health with Kym Winter
Melissa is joined by Kym Winters, the founder of charity organisation Rareminds and psychotherapist, to discuss the impact rare disease has on mental health and what support for mental health can look like for individuals, families and medics. Rareminds is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) and the organisation has been providing online counselling, therapy and wellbeing services for rare disease charities since 2014. They do amazing work and they support professionals and patient leaders in making mental health integral to rare disease patient care.
In this episode we explore why mental health should be at the centre of patient care and how medics can open conversations on mental health, how to signpost and access further support an how medics can take care of their own mental health so that you can continue to offer great care and support in the clinic.
Find out more about Rareminds and what they do here: www.rareminds.org
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M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.
M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare
Melissa is joined by Kym Winters, the founder of charity organisation Rareminds and psychotherapist, to discuss the impact rare disease has on mental health and what support for mental health can look like for individuals, families and medics. Rareminds is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) and the organisation has been providing online counselling, therapy and wellbeing services for rare disease charities since 2014. They do amazing work and they support professionals and patient leaders in making mental health integral to rare disease patient care.
In this episode we explore why mental health should be at the centre of patient care and how medics can open conversations on mental health, how to signpost and access further support an how medics can take care of their own mental health so that you can continue to offer great care and support in the clinic.
Find out more about Rareminds and what they do here: www.rareminds.org
Views, ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal to the individual and Medics4RareDiseases does not accept responsibility for those expressed by guests.
M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.
M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare