Mental fitness as a leadership and organisational capability
With stress, burnout, and depression increasing across the business, mental health is no longer optional — it’s essential. Leaders and HR teams today face a complex mix of uncertainty, restructuring, and technological change, while managing people’s anxiety and new forms of work on top of business as usual.
I design and deliver keynotes, workshops, and organisational programs that translate psychological insight into practical mental fitness skills for everyday work life.
My signature program:
The Mentally Fit Leader
"I wholeheartedly recommend Velina for any type of training related to mental health and boosting well-being.
Over the past two years, we’ve run different projects in collaboration with Velina and the feedback from our colleagues was excellent. One of the projects that are most dear to my heart is the mental fitness training for our leaders which supports our line managers in building and maintaining a healthy work ecosystem inside their teams, having open mental health conversations with their team members, or coaching them to get support.
Velina is very adaptable and skilled when it comes to designing training programs from scratch to fit our needs, dynamic and engaging when she delivers the training, calming, natural, and supportive with the audience especially when sensitive topics were being brought up in conversations.
All in all, a true professional who is able to translate concepts into real-life examples and scenarios so that everyone leaves the training with a toolkit ready to be put into practice."
- Alexandra Curteanu, People Program Lead @Endava
How can we work together?
Depending on the maturity of your culture, as well as the existing wellbeing programs and emotional intelligence of your team, our partnership may cover:
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Open Mental Health talks for raising awareness and driving cultural change
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Practical workshops and education for building mental fitness skills
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Mental Health Training for Managers and Leaders
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Mental fitness and performance coaching
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Individual counselling service through our partners from hOURTHERAPY
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Quality content and tools tailored to your culture
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A digital solution for emotional check-in and synchronization for remote teams
My keynote and workshop topics include:
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Practical workshop for managers: The Mentally Fit Leader: Supporting your own and your employees' mental health
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Intro to Mental Fitness in the workplace
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From stressed to centred: managing pressure and preventing butnout
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How to avoid burnout and support colleagues who're struggling
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Setting healthy boundaries
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Emotional Fitness: Navigating Emotions & Energy
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Mindfulness and breathwork for busy people
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Habits for improved health and performance
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How to beat fatigue and sleep better?
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Confidence That Lasts: Тurning Self-Doubt Into Strength
What's the impact?
By spending time in the business, I want to encourage people to care for their mental and behavioural health proactively and to help leaders create mentally-fit places to work.
>500 senior leaders and managers trained in
mental fitness skills
Our programs have helped leaders at all levels to skillfully handle psychological issues in their teams.
Supported > 30 individuals in recovering from burnout and other mental health conditions
50 partner companies built a culture of well-being and psychological safety
Our partner companies report stable retention and manager approval rates over the course of our work.
What people about NotYourTherapy:
Inclusive
Unlike executive coaching, NoyYourTherapy sessions create a safe space for everyone (not just managers) to get support and work on their mental and emotional fitness.
For leadership coaching check out coaching pages.
Proactive
Our purpose is not to treat mental illness at the workplace. Instead, we focus on prevention, build skills and awareness, and create a culture of openness.
Our psychologists are trained to consult on issues that coaches cannot, and can identify if you're at risk to refer you to specialized help.
We get you
We are not the typical bunch of clinical psychologist who meet people in the doctors’ office.
We're real people, not robots.
We understand business, speak IT and appreciate humans as they are.
In their own words:
Teodora Mircheva
Community Team Lead, Chaos
"Last year, Velina consulted the company I worked for and within a short time, she managed to make a big difference in improving the organizational culture and the wellbeing of the team members. She is an exceptional psychologist who is able to listen, understand, empower and create win-win situations for both employees and the business.
For me, personally, the meeting with Velina was transformational."
Diana Elenkova
GM, Zuhlke Bulgaria
"Working from home, due to the current external stress factors can have an impact on our mental well-being, which is worth to be handled with special attention. I would like say huge thanks to Velina Getova, who provided our team with food for thoughts on our emotional triggers as well as practical coping mechanisms during her webinar: "Emotional Agility for Challenging Times". It was an excellent session and discussion and I am happy and grateful she gifted us her personal time as a speaker and a coach on those topics with our team in Sofia and Belgrade. Thank you Velina Getova - feedback from the team was also very good!"
Gergana Ivanova
Product Owner, MentorMate
Desislava Vasileva
People Partner, Cognyte
"Last week we had two great sessions about Mental Health led by Velina Getova.
Some of our learning:
Mental Fitness in the workplace is all about how we think, feel and behave. And yes, mental fitness is as important as physical fitness. It helps improve productivity, job satisfaction, health and overall well-being. Thank you Velina Getova for all the insights and experience that you shared with our team!"
Webinar Participant
Leadership team @Progress
"I wanted to thank you again for providing the Mental Health and Well Being webinar and chat with Velina Getova.
She was encouraging with good suggestions on how to care for ourselves and work expectations and kept the topic realistic.
It made a difference in my day, and plan for the next few weeks.
Thank you."
Managers' Training Participant
ENDAVA
"I found the content very useful and clearly explained. Velina created an open environment and facilitated the session really well, maintaining a very good balance between theory and practice and engaging all participants.
I also appreciated that she tailored the content to IT domain specifics and showed that she had exposure to it, as I think this helps in better relating to participants' day-to-day context."