John Henden Consultancy
John Henden Consultancy provides psychotherapy, coaching, and a wide portfolio of training. The special focus is on suicide prevention training workshops, both at home and overseas.

Our work in suicide prevention
John Henden Consultancy plays a pivotal role in advancing suicide prevention and mental health support through a range of impactful activities. These include delivering presentations and facilitating workshops at Zero Suicide conferences, providing training for bereavement support group volunteers, and inspiring belief in achieving zero suicide during its one-day and two-day solution-focused suicide prevention workshops. Through these initiatives, we aim to empower individual participants, clinical teams, and representatives of other mental health organisations to adopt and implement effective suicide prevention strategies

Our current priorities
The book Preventing Suicide: the solution focused approach was published by Wiley & Sons in 2008 and was a worldwide success. Currently the manuscript for the second edition is with the publisher. We will be providing a 1-day annual suicide prevention training for Bristol branch volunteers, and are looking to expand this to CRUSE branches nationwide.

Our current challenges
Currently, mental health foundation trusts seem reluctant to provide full suicide prevention training for their teams. Instead, it seems for a variety of reasons, they provide ‘Awareness’ events and minimal 1/2 day training courses only.
