Nina Abeysuriya (Tiny Changes)

Nina Abeysuriya is a mental health practitioner, workshop facilitator, and anti- racist advocate. Her work centres the safety, empowerment and care for those who have been deliberately harmed and marginalised. Nina has created several courses and workshops that explore anti-racism, inclusion, equity and belonging, interrogating power, privilege, and oppression and mental health. 

Nina is currently Head of Programme Development and Operations at Tiny Changes, a charity helping young minds feel better in Scotland. Here, she leads a team working in co-production across six projects, led by young people for young people, that focus on leadership development and delivering early mental health intervention across multiple sectors. These include mental health and wellbeing in primary education, university, intersectional communities, the arts, sports, and a future podcast exploring mental health in the music industry.

Nina previously led and developed a mental health service for young people of colour in Scotland managing a team of BIPOC counsellors delivering anti-oppressive and anti-racist mental health support. As a freelance facilitator, she has written, designed, and delivered workshops including Conscious Inclusion and Anti-Racism, Decolonising Therapy: An Intro to Anti-Racism in Practice, Decolonising the Mind, and Radical Rest and Wellbeing. She has worked across the education, health, housing, tech, and arts sectors—always holding space in ways that centres care, compassion, honesty and seeks to disturb and challenge systems that cause harm to  marginalised people.

http://tinychanges.com