Richard Reid - renowned coaching and psychological consultant
Richard Reid biography – renowned coaching and psychological consultant – psychology expert, coach, media spokesperson, keynote psychology speaker, and author.
Who is
Richard Reid?
Richard Reid is one of the UK’s leading coaching and psychological consultants.
He has worked for over two decades as a psychology expert, coach, media spokesperson, keynote psychology speaker, and author.
Richard offers discreet coaching and therapy for industry leaders, businesses, public figures and individuals across the corporate, media and private sectors. Richard is Founder, Clinical Director and Wellbeing Consultant of Pinnacle Wellbeing Plus which he founded in 2005.
Making psychology more accessible to a wider audience
In his words Richard is ‘on a mission to make you better’. He has a natural ability to communicate complex psychological ideas in everyday language; he doesn’t deal in psycho-babble.
Pinnacle Wellbeing Plus founded to provide therapy and psychotherapy based services.
Richard’s experience as a psychology expert, coach, media spokesperson, speaker & author
Corporate, television and private clients assisted during his career
Richard’s background and qualifications
Richard began his professional training as a post-graduate and is qualified in treatments such as CBT, critical incident stress debriefing, occupational and organisational stress management, alternative dispute resolution, and mediation. He is also a trauma risk management practitioner, and EMDR trauma practitioner.
Richard holds his stakeholder coaching accreditation for the acclaimed Marshall Goldsmith leadership coaching; this enables him to deliver highly effective leadership coaching to successful leaders wanting to achieve positive, lasting change in behaviour – both for themselves, their people and their teams.
Richard has professional membership and is fully accredited to the British Association for Counselling and Psychology (BACP).
Promoting positive psychology through coaching, therapy and consultancy
Richard promotes positive psychology, and works collaboratively as a trusted adviser with each of his clients. He offers a tailored approach to suit each of his client’s needs.
Working with trauma and critical incident clients
Richard has worked extensively with City of London Police as a psychological trauma consultant and for the London Underground providing triage and treatment to those experiencing trauma as well as consulting on its company-wide disaster response policy. He also worked with survivors of the London terror attacks.
Richard has assisted the National Crime Agency providing psychological assessments and therapy interventions for individuals assigned to the Witness Protection Programme and has acted as a mediator between Police Officers and perpetrators.
Wellbeing consultant
As a wellbeing consultant Richard has worked with CEOs and large blue-chip clients across the corporate world advising and creating global wellbeing initiatives. He raises awareness of key mental health issues within the workplace and advises and supports senior leadership, HR and L&D functions. Richard also provides data analysis and tangible solutions for emerging wellbeing trends within the workplace.
From charisma masterclass to bespoke one-to-one therapy and coaching
Richard delivers a range of therapies and psychological expertise both remotely and in person. He works extensively in London and the UK, as well as treating clients in South Africa and internationally. As well as leadership and executive coaching Richard offers wellbeing and resilience consultancy; workshops and masterclasses; trauma support and mental health therapy; as well as discreet one-to-one sessions and everything in between. Richard also gives keynote speeches and talks throughout the corporate world.
Richard’s skills and experience, pragmatic and integrative coaching and therapy style are designed to get the best out of you and your people. Using leading edge-therapy, workshops and masterclasses, Richard looks to challenge and stretch how you think about yourself and your life, giving you the tools to develop key areas such as resilience, charisma, confidence and how to navigate organisational development.
TV psychologist and broadcaster
Richard is a familiar face on news outlets, such as Sky News, BBC, Bloomberg, and This Morning and a frequent contributor to The Times, Vogue, The Guardian, OK! Magazine and Daily Mail. Richard regularly appears as a psychology expert discussing topics such as trauma, charisma and phobias.
He also works as a duty of care psychologist advising TV and film production on best practice to ensure all participants are psychologically robust and stable enough to take part. Richard advises many high-profile clients, offering discreet one-to-one therapy and coaching.
