About & approach
Why we do this, how we do it, what it's built on, and who delivers it: the four things worth knowing about how Toolbox works.
Mental health skills are usually only taught after something's gone wrong, once a problem already has a name.
We think that's backwards. The same tools a psychologist would teach you should be available before they're needed: taught early, taught often, and in a way that actually sticks.
Taught before a crisis, not after
Taught early and often, until it sticks
Every facilitator is a psychology student: relatable for your students, real experience for theirs.
Studying at university
Delivering workshops in schools
Practising at Toolbox Clinic
A single workshop can start a habit, but it can't sustain one alone. That's why we work with the adults around every student too.
Mirrored workshops for the adults around every student, so the whole school community uses the same language.
When a student needs more than a workshop, your wellbeing team can refer directly into Toolbox Clinic.
Eight self-guided activities per workshop keep the skill alive well after the facilitator leaves the room.
Grounded in CBT, DBT and ACT: practical, interactive and fun, not group therapy.
Cognitive behavioural therapy: spotting and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns.
Dialectical behaviour therapy: managing intense emotions and building distress tolerance.
Acceptance and commitment therapy: building psychological flexibility and values-driven action.