Anxend.
Teaching the world to understand and overcome the effects of childhood anxiety.
One child, one family at a time.
What we do
We build and deliver innovative online programmes which increase access to mental health support for children, families and schools struggling with childhood mental health by focusing on anxiety.
Anxiety is our focus because it precedes and coexists with other mental health issues, making early detection and management crucial.
We offer immediate access to programmes for children, parents and young adults, alongside e-learning courses for schools designed by our team of clinical experts and delivered by supervised peer-peer coaches. These programmes empower not only families but also schools with evidence-based tools and techniques to tackle childhood anxiety.
By focusing on early intervention we help prevent other disorders from developing or worsening.
How it started
Anxend was born out of the struggle our founder and CEO, Maurice Edelson, experienced when he was looking for support and care for his own family’s difficult journey with childhood anxiety. His lived experience opened his eyes to the scale of the problem and the enormous difficulty families were having accessing care.
To make a difference on a global scale an innovative platform was required. Partnering with Simon MacKinnon OBE, fresh from leading some of the world’s most innovative Med Tech companies, they combined technology and clinical expertise to make the evidence based tools and techniques they developed into a scaleable platform accessible to as many people as they could possibly reach. Help is now accessible at scale for families all over the UK.
Our Vision
Our vision is to be the partner of choice for families, institutions, and governments looking for support with childhood anxiety.
Anxend is proud to be a corporate member of the Association for Coaching.
Anxend is an Organisational Member of BACP
To ensure we're working to the highest standard possible, as an organisational member we work under BACP's:
Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions, which sets out our commitment to our service users and the ethics of our work
Ethical Guidelines for Research in the Counselling Professions, which helps us adhere to good practice when we conduct our research
Professional conduct procedure, which allows people we work with to raise any concerns about our conduct.
We are proud to be a member of the Children & Young People's Mental Coalition. We are committed to our shared vision of building a nation where positive mental health is promoted and early intervention practices are in place to secure mentally healthier futures for our children and young people.
Beyond is a youth mental health charity tackling the growing mental health crisis affecting young people in the UK. They created the first UK-wide cross-sector directory of mental health services available for young people, offering a comprehensive range of services - from 1:1 counselling to art therapy - ensuring individual needs are met. You can find out more about their directory here.
Suicide prevention is everyone’s business. The National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) is an alliance of public, private and voluntary organisations in England who care about suicide prevention and are willing to take individual and collective action to reduce suicide and self-harm, and support those bereaved or affected by suicide.
