About Kay Reeve

Emotional Awareness Expert,  is a title created from years of experience combined with innovation to create positive results. I have worked with and listened to people as individuals, along with continued personal development since 1993, and a combination of many other qualifications and experiences that each bring something valuable to my teachings today.  Here is a list of just some of the experiences that helped me get to this point of calling myself an Emotional Awareness Expert.  

Mood Mentor Strategy:  I created the very strategy I teach through books and online courses, through necessity of saving my son's life from suicidal depression.  It was when I realised that he was a visual learner, and needed to SEE his emotions to learn about them, that I set about creating a way to help him.  My mission now is to get that strategy into mainstream education in the next few years to help tackle teenage depression where it matters most.

Counselling: I took a beginners course in counselling around 2002, while I was volunteering in St John Ambulance and struggling with my son's early depression.  This was my first step towards learning more about helping people with emotional challenges. This is not an official qualification, but it is still experience that I recall and use today.

Leadership Training: As part of my St John Ambulance duties, I was leader of the Badgers and Cadets, and took Leadership Training on a 3 day residential course. Again around 2002 with many of the lessons staying with me till today, especially the importance of team-work and collaboration.

Babysitter: In 2005 I had set up business as a babysitter, passing the entry assignments with excellent marks on how to keep children safe, along with safeguarding training.  A few months and a few clients in my husband was injured, housebound in the living room for months.  I had to give up the business immediately. The one thing I did get out of that few months, was my second client staying in contact and later becoming a brand designer who  later designed my site & social media branding.

Home Education: Due to my son's ASD and depression, I de-registered him from state education, teaching him at home.  We learned a lot from each other - symbiotic as he put it - and my daughter followed later.  They both went to 6th Form to take essential GCSE's later.  Although this is not a qualification for me, it was certainly more in-depth experience raising two teenagers at home 24/7 for the next seven years. No regrets!