About
We Are Integral
Our Ethos
We take health, ageing-well, wellbeing, advocacy, client centred practice, clinical outcomes, evidenced based practice, equality and accessibility VERY seriously.
To us, they’re on par with the most important things in life: happiness, joy, beauty, fun, music, generosity, connection and creativity. We practise embodying these in our sessions with clients, and actually in our own lives.
Why We Do It
NHS and Social Services providers have had their funding drained. Therapists are bound by bureaucratic systems that inhibit creativity and limit input with clients. We have seen this have disastrous consequences for service users. And we've seen brilliant health professionals burn out, be drained of joy and completely lose their purpose.
We Are Integral is the antidote to this.
Social Enterprise
As a social enterprise, we pour most of our profits
back into our purpose.
Our purpose is to help people realise their potential for health and wellbeing through providing clinical and non clinical services.
If you can afford to pay more than our fees, we promise to channel every £ into services for those who are less able to pay.
The Serious Bits
We take Governance seriously:
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We are hold £10M professional indemnity insurance.
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We are fully vetted with the Disclosure Barring Service.
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We are registered with the Information Commissioner (meaning we keep your information watertight)
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We are registered with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
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We only work with partners who take governance as seriously as we do.
Jen Kerrison
Director, Founder, OT
Jen Kerrison is an occupational therapist with over 10 years experience working with adults within the UK's NHS and social services and internationally. She's run inpatient departments, led community teams, designed services, lectured at University and designed and facilitates groups. She has been on the senior leadership team (including being a non executive director) of various social enterprises and community interest organisations. Jen knows how to navigate complex NHS and Social Services journeys and advocates for individuals within that.
Jen left the sector after becoming disillusioned by the direction NHS and Social Services were heading. She made a complete career change and became an Emmy Award winning documentary maker. She built a successful career producing and directing documentaries for British and international broadcast. As fun and adventurous as the world of documentaries is, she felt she could be of better use to society by providing an alternative to what is currently publicly available.
We Are Integral was born out of Jen's mission to help people realise their potential without the bureaucratic limitations of time and scope imposed by NHS and other services.
Jen's forever trying (and failing and trying again) to realise her own potential - from alpine running and multi-day hiking to painting, tennis and cooking - she's keen to participate in life as much as she possibly can.
