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Owen O'Kane

Best-selling author, psychotherapist and former NHS clinical lead

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Gender: Male

Languages: English

Travels from: United Kingdom

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Owen O’Kane is a former NHS Clinical Lead for mental health in London and Sunday Times best-selling author of ‘Ten To Zen’, which is a quick and simple mental workout that allows us to focus on what’s important – our mental wellbeing.

Biography

Owen O’Kane – Mental Health and Wellbeing Expert

Owen is one of the country’s leading and most trusted mental health experts. A former NHS mental health clinical lead and Sunday Times Best Selling Author.

Owen has an incredible gift when it comes to making complex psychological and mental health information accessible and understandable, speaking regularly at festivals and conferences. Additionally, Owen runs corporate workshops for senior management teams across a range of industries and businesses.

He is also an experienced media contributor, clocking-up hundreds of hours across TV, Radio and Print.

Earlier this year (2023) Jake Humphrey selected Owen to be his mental health expert on stage with him during the High Performance Podcast Tour.

Owen is the resident Sunday night phone-in expert on BBC Radio 5Live, helping people manage their Sunday Night ‘Fear’. And is about to begin filming a series with Fearne Cotton for her Happy Place YouTube Channel.

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Owen has worked with over 30 big global corporates, helping their teams avoid workplace stress and burnout. His broad approach and extensive experience means he can talk to a variety of subjects and challenges, but he has a particular slant towards helping people understand why flexible thinking is the key to success rather than ‘positive thinking.

He grew up in Northern Ireland during ‘the troubles’ which he describes as a great training ground for understanding trauma and anxiety. He has a down to earth and humorous approach to his work, with no hesitation in sharing his own challenges and normalising human struggle.

Owen spent the first half of his career working with the dying as a palliative care specialist, which significantly influences how he works today.

His mission is to help people get the best from their lives and work, especially those who may not ordinarily seek help. He regularly supports and collaborates with charities including Hospice UK, The Princess Trust, and a host of others, to help their campaigns for better mental health.

He is an active voice on LGBTQ+ rights and a former columnist for Attitude Magazine.

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How to gain clarity and control by calming the anxious mind and reducing stress

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What good mental is health and how to achieve it

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Tools to help manage emotions and unhelpful habits in life and in the workplace

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Learn the 10 minute daily technique to improve mental strength and resilience

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End negative self-talk and improve motivation

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Books

How To Be Your Own Therapist: Boost your mood and reduce your anxiety in 10 minutes a day

Let Owen O’Kane, psychotherapist, former NHS Clinical Lead and Sunday Times bestselling author of TEN TO ZEN, show you how anyone can use simple, understandable techniques to unlock better mental health. Modern life is a minefield for stress. Whether it’s juggling work, relationships or money, we often struggle to make time for ourselves and can find ourselves stuck in a rut with bad habits or worries. In HOW TO BE YOUR OWN THERAPIST, Owen O’Kane reveals how smart, short techniques throughout the day can form healthier perspectives and let you ditch harmful thought patterns. Using the latest evidence-based tools and techniques from across a range of therapies including CBT, mindfulness and interpersonal therapy, Owen provides empowering solutions to managing what keeps you stuck so you can move forward. Teaching you the key fundamentals of therapy and how to apply these to your own life, alongside targeted tasks that take just 10 minutes a day, this is the practical therapy book for anyone who wants to get the best from their life and to manage better in tough times.

Ten Times Happier: A guide on how to let go of what’s holding you back

Modern life is a minefield for stress. Whether it’s juggling work, relationships or money, we often get stuck mindlessly obsessing about all the wrong things, not knowing what to let go of. In TEN TIMES HAPPIER, Owen O’Kane reveals how to choose new, healthier perspectives and ditch harmful patterns in the 10 key areas we all overthink about or manage poorly, including: • the past • our minds • other people • worry • our behaviours • the future Using the latest evidence-based tools and techniques from across a range of therapies including CBT, mindfulness and interpersonal therapy, Owen provides empowering solutions to managing what keeps you stuck so you can move forward. Want a down-to-earth guide from a professional on HOW you can become happier, minus the fairy dust? Featuring a brand new chapter to guide you back to life in a post-Covid world, find the resilience you never knew you had. Become TEN TIMES HAPPIER.

Ten to Zen: Ten Minutes a Day to a Calmer, Happier You

Each morning most of us will spend about ten minutes in the shower, ten minutes making and eating breakfast but no time at all clearing our minds. Ten to Zen uses a combination of four therapeutic models – Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy – in a simple, easy-to-follow programme. You will learn: – How to settle your mind quickly – How to focus and retrain your brain on dealing with stress – How to restructure unhelpful patterns of thinking – How to develop ways of communicating that are more effective Ten to Zen was developed by Owen O’Kane to encourage new principles for living based on his experience as a psychotherapist and his many years of caring for the dying in the field of palliative care, which has hugely influenced how he works and how he views life.