Dr Vanessa
Dr Vanessa Moulton is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and high-pressure environment specialist who trains people and organisations to build and maintain psychologically fit minds.
She is the founder of Mindflex Group, a psychological consultancy providing a range of preventative and reactive support to enable and maintain Psychological Fitness — from masterclasses and structured programmes in Psychological Fitness and in Burnout & Vicarious Trauma, to Executive Coaching for performance, to one-to-one therapy for more complex mental health issues, both in and out of the workplace. She has worked across private, charity and public settings.
Her background incorporates extensive work in military mental health, which includes working as part of the mental health team at the MoD’s Rehabilitation Centre ‘Headley Court’ during the peak of the Afghanistan conflict.
She spent 5 years as the Head of Psychological Wellbeing at ‘Help For Heroes’, where she developed and governed the psychological support service across their four Recovery Centres.
She also worked at ‘Combat Stress’ on the inaugural PTSD high intensity programme, and was the Expedition Psychologist for The South Pole ‘Walking with the Wounded’ challenge. Dr Moulton was the Clinical Lead on the joint Ministry of Defence/Royal Foundation project ‘HeadFIT’, where she developed the psychological approach and content for the platform - the MoD's mandatory mental fitness training, now used across the UK armed forces.
She has been delivering her proactive approach to businesses for the last 5 years, and has longstanding clients including ITV (providing training to its staff globally), EY and top tier legal firms Fieldfisher and Burges Salmon providing executive coaching and ongoing training for staff specific to the legal sector. Dr Moulton is also the appointed Mental Health Consultant for the ‘Invictus Games Foundation’.
What is The MindFlex Method?
The Mindflex Method is how I train Psychological Fitness: the ability to supervise and intercept your own internal operating system, proactively and strategically, especially under pressure and during change. It rests on a simple idea. Most of what your brain does, it does automatically, through three key mechanisms. Left unsupervised, they shape your response before you've had any say in it, and that costs you, in energy, focus, and the quality of your decisions.
The Method trains you to supervise those mechanisms and intercept them when it matters, so you can catch the automatic response before it runs the show. In my programmes, that training is delivered in three stages, Install, Activate & Integrate, and Sustain, structured to match how the brain actually learns, so the change holds rather than fading the moment the pressure lifts.
The result isn't a quick fix. It's a trained capability you keep, one that makes performing under pressure cost you less.
Choosing to put in just a small amount of effort to enable psychological fitness in ourselves or others comes with a range of tangible benefits.
Managing emotions and enhancing positive emotional regulation
Managing trauma
Feel less stressed/reduce or mitigate burnout
Developing realistic & motivational expectations and achieving goals
Increased resiliance
Better sleep & increased energy
Elevating performance
