Connected Potential: About Us
Creating Psychologically Human Enhanced Workplaces (©PHEW!)
Working across the NHS and other organisations, we have seen first hand how teams are struggling.
Years of cuts, increased demand, increased costs of living and staff shortages have led to workforces who are stressed, unwell, burnt out and leaving.
This in turn is worsening working life for the remaining workforce and further increasing the financial burden organisations are under.
Workforces are burning out.
Meet The Team
Dr Anna Hames
Co-Founder, Clinical &
Coaching Psychologist
Anna has over 20 years of experience of working within in the NHS and private practice.
She has additional qualifications in Coaching Psychology, Family & Systems Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Trauma therapies.
Anna's specialist expertise is in working within complex physical healthcare settings with staff, children, adolescents and families.
Anna's previous employments include Evelina London, King’s College Hospital, The Tavistock Centre, and University Hospital Southampton.
Dr Maret Dymond-Bassett
Co-Founder, Clinical &
Coaching Psychologist
Maret has over 25 years of experience of working with individuals and teams across a variety of sectors including healthcare, business, academia, and the NfP sector.
Over recent years she has been fortunate to gain the Inner MBA Qualification through LinkedIn, Sounds True & Wisdom 2.0.
Maret is an internationally known Mindfulness / Compassion-Based teacher-trainer and has additional training / qualifications in Coaching Psychology, Mind-Body Coaching / Somatics, Cognitive-Behavioural, Dialectical-Behavioural, Cognitive-Analytical, systemic and trauma therapies.
Maret is the Director of New Forest Mindfulness Ltd, previous employments include The Universities of Oxford, Southampton and Reading, and NHS Trusts in Hampshire and Somerset.
Dr Angela Griffin
Co-Founder, Clinical &
Coaching Psychologist
Angela has over 30 years of experience of working in the NHS and private practice.
She is a Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist and leads a team of over 25 clinical and cognitive health psychologists, counsellors, assistant and trainee psychologists and specialist administrators.
Angela has additional qualifications in Coaching Psychology, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Family & Systems Therapy and Trauma therapies including Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR).
Angela has specialist expertise in neuropsychology and paediatric physical healthcare.
Previous employments include several significant London teaching hospitals and University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Our Approach
Most people think in pyramids, with leadership at the top directing the workforce below.
We work with Diamonds (see The Diamond Psychological Model of Workforce Change©, Hames, Dymond & Griffin, 2023, below).
As well as working with leaders and groups, we identify individuals within organisations/networks/systems who would benefit from specialist input. Tailoring our interventions to the full spectrum of need creates sustained organisational, systemic and societal change at all levels.
