My name is Sheila Byrne, Hope St CEO and Co-Founder of the mental health and wellbeing organisation.

I suffered a nervous breakdown in 2016, which led to Dom & I to open Ormskirk Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Organisation in May 2018.

Because of my own experiences with mental health disorders, I am extremely passionate about ensuring people don’t reach a point of despair that I experienced. I fully respect and understand from a lived-experience perspective what you are feeling and the symptoms you may be demonstrating.

As a highly qualified teacher with an expertise in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), I write and deliver courses around mental health, which have been successful in helping individuals prevent crisis, aid recovery and sustain mental health and wellbeing.

I believe that every member of Hope St. should have their say in what services they have access to, so I go above and beyond to source and invite services that will aid recovery.

I am the main point of contact for members and potential attendees; therefore, any responses to email or telephone will come from myself and will be treated with your utmost respect and confidentiality.

If you do need an informal chat, then you can find our details at the foot of every page.

My name is Dominic Byrne, Volunteer and Co-Founder of the mental health and wellbeing organisation. In January 2016, when Sheila had her breakdown, I went into autopilot. Although having always been empathetic I had no real understanding of mental health and just tried to get through each day with Sheila, suddenly going from husband to carer, two completely different roles.

I took on every role from helping Sheila shower, drying her hair (I am definitely not Vidal Dom), making sure Sheila took her medication, at times helping her walk just from room to room and doing anything he could to try and put a smile back on her face.

Sheila’s breakdown meant we were both on a path of discovering more about mental health, a path that for a long time had more lows than it did high points.

As I started to understand more about maintaining good mental health, I decided there had to be more support in their local area and that support should focus on the positives. Knowing it’s hard for many people to see the positives I wanted to create an environment where people could hear the stories of others and be inspired, to have their own thoughts validated by those who have been in the same position and be educated in how those people have progressed, to see how they came through their dark periods to live a brighter life.

Most of all I wanted people to know there is light at the end of the tunnel and there is HOPE and Hope St was born.

So how would I describe myself? as an Entrepreneur ? A Motivator? A Trainer?A Facilitator? A Business / Career Coach? driven by my desire for equality and fairness my belief in lifelong and informal learning. A woman who walks the talk. My main mission and passion in life is to develop people in any way that works for them. whatever their age education or background. I have been lucky enough to study and learn about Emotional Intelligence. NLP, Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring throughout my career. Others might describe me as energetic, confident, conscientious with a good sense of humour. As an experienced trainer with lots of experience across very different environments from the corporate world, education and small local community and charity groups.

A qualified Trainer (CITP) Assesor D32/34/ A1, Business Adviser ( SEFDI) qualified Mentor? Coach and qualified in NLP to diploma level.

I am Currently loving inspiring, supporting and training new entrepreneurs to take that plunge and take their ideas forward whilst working with brilliant existing businesses to help them grow their business.

I have a strong desire to encourage others to take up the option of enterprise as a career choice at any age I started my business at 45 so its never too late. my other passion is to see people grow on a personal level to reach their potential I have developed a wide selection of highly successful and effective Personal Development training programmes over the years using a solution focussed approach from my knowledge of Emotional Intelligence and NLP techniques.