Full Colour Coaching

30/07/2025

Supporting Young People in the North East

This week we were devastated to learn that Mental Health Aberdeen (MHA) ; a cornerstone charity in our region for over 25 years, has folded with immediate effect. MHA provided free counselling, drop‑in sessions, school workshops, and community outreach to thousands of adults and young people each year.
Their youth programmes in particular offered one‑to‑one mentoring, resilience‑building activities, and crisis support right when it was needed most.

The sudden loss of MHA creates a real gap in mental health provision:

- Waiting lists will grow at other counselling services.
- Schools lose a trusted partner who delivered workshops on self‑esteem, stress management, and peer support.
- Community groups lose a key collaborator for awareness campaigns and safe‑space events.

While Full Colour Coaching is not a counselling or crisis service, we work closely with schools to offer preventative support and early intervention through coaching programmes.

Our work focuses on:
- Helping young people build self-awareness, confidence and emotional resilience.
- Supporting schools to embed wellbeing-focused coaching in their pastoral care.
- Partnering with organisations who want to make a real difference in local education

How can we help?
If you're a parent, teacher or community partner looking to work with us, please get in touch.
Message us or email angie@fullcolour.com for a free chat.

If you're a local business or organisation, your backing will enable us to expand our school outreach, train more coaches, and offer subsidised support for families experiencing hardship; please reach out as we’d love to talk.

Together, we can ensure that no young person in Aberdeen and the wider north‑east is left to face mental health challenges alone.

24/04/2025

Full Colour Coaching provides early intervention mental health and wellbeing support for young people. When Castle Street Coffee cic is open, this will provide a hub in the town of Huntly for young people to just drop in and get support as and when they need it!

11/01/2025

We are actively ! Know anyone who might be interested?

Full Colour Coaching is looking for a Business Development Manager for one day a week, for a fixed term of 12 months.

Interested or know someone who can help us expand our reach to support more young people with their mental health and wellbeing, please share!

Applicants please send a CV and covering letter to angie@fullcolourcoach.com

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22/11/2024

A wee article about our funding from Vattenfall Clashindarroch Wind Farm Community Fund administered by Foundation Scotland 🤩
Looking forward to supporting more young people with the help of two part time staff members! 🥰

An not-for-profit organisation is ‘incredibly grateful’ for a funding boost from a windfarm.

14/06/2024

29/05/2024

Saturday June 15th is the GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION day for the new pump track at Greenmyres Adventures.
It’s going to be a great gathering for the whole family with a chance to get on the track, try out some water sports, explore our 63 acres and have some fun in the fresh air.
Don’t miss it!!

09/05/2024

🧠 Mental Health vs. Mental Illness 🧠

It's important to understand the difference between mental health and mental illness. Mental health refers to our overall emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. It influences how we think, feel, and behave in our daily lives. Mental illness, on the other hand, involves diagnosable conditions that affect mental functioning.

Educators play a key role in promoting mental health in our schools. By fostering a positive environment, we can support students' emotional resilience and prevent mental health challenges from escalating. However, recognizing the signs of mental illness and knowing when to refer students to professional support is equally vital.

Many schools group proactive mental health efforts and reactive responses to mental illness within the same role or position description. This approach can blur the lines, impacting the quality of both proactive and reactive support. While proactive efforts focus on promoting positive mental health through education, resilience-building, and wellbeing activities, reactive responses require specialized training and involve addressing mental health crises.

How does your school handle the distinction between proactive mental health and reactive mental illness care? Share your approach below and let's learn from each other.

21/03/2024

We recently sent a pack of our character strengths cards to Houston in the USA 🇺🇸 and received this feedback! This week we also sent a pack to France 🇫🇷 🤩 Our cards can be used by all ages, across the world! Order yours here: https://www.fullcolourcoach.com/character-strengths-cards

14/03/2024

Today at Gordon Primary and Rhynie Primary we explored our worry monsters! We used the strategy ‘catch, check and change’ to cope better with our worries. We checked our negative thoughts by asking ‘is this thought true’, ‘is it helpful?’ ‘Is there another way I can think about this?’ And changed it to something more accurate and helpful!

Love their designs! Check them out!! 😃🤩😁

08/03/2024

Lots of fun had with my coaching groups over the last few weeks at and , learning to improve our communication, learn our character strengths and how to see things from a different perspective, along with some team building!