Becky Richens Specialist Mental Health Nurse Consultant

Welcome!

I’m Becky Richens, a Mental Health Nurse Consultant with over 20 years’ experience across mental health, neurodiversity, substance misuse, safeguarding, and workforce development.

My work brings together clinical expertise, national level strategic leadership, and hands on practice with individuals, teams, and organisations. I support services to think differently about complexity, neurodiversity, wellbeing, and care, always with a focus on practical change that improves real outcomes.

I specialise in neuroaffirming and trauma informed approaches, with particular focus on ADHD, autism, emotional regulation, burnout, and mental health across the lifespan. I also have extensive experience in safeguarding across both children and adult services, including complex multi agency work and system level decision making.

At the centre of my work is a simple belief. People do best when they are understood, supported, and not expected to fit systems that were never designed with them in mind.