Changing Minds with Pick Up A Penny

Changing Minds with Pick Up a Penny is a North East Community Interest Company who use an individualised approach to mental and physiological health and therapeutic services for adults, children, young people and their families. Changing minds, changing lives.

Our services

Who we are

Psychotherapist Sara Young leads a team who are highly skilled in pioneering therapies to support people’s mental and physiological health.   

Sara, who works with people of all ages and has a special interest in children and young people’s mental health, established Changing Minds with Pick Up a Penny in Forest Hall, North Tyneside to support long-term recovery.

Using a person-centred holistic approach enables people to enjoy improved psychological health and emotional wellbeing; lead happier and more fulfilling lives; and reach their potential. 

Changing Minds has a fundraising arm called Pick Up a Penny, which is based on the premise that every penny counts and can make a difference.

Sara’s vision is to fundraise to establish a network of mental and physiological health centres offering innovative and timely therapies, with the first centre planned for the North East.

Meet our team

  • Sara Young

  • Debbie Pediredla

  • Mark Douthwaite

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  • Jenna Kirtley

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“There is a real need for the support that Changing Minds provides for people of all ages, especially now following such a prolonged and traumatic global event as the pandemic.”

Client (Firefighter)

Change your mind, change your life today