Lorraine Collins is a psychotherapist who came to the work the long way round. She spent her early career in advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi, then in the music industry working with artists including The Prodigy and James Brown, before retraining and spending formative years in the NHS, where she... Read more
Understanding how chronic pressure and accumulated stress lead to burnout, and how individuals and organisations can recognise the warning signs and build healthier, more sustainable ways of working.
Exploring the less-discussed form of burnout caused by the emotional labour of difficult or demanding relationships, why it can be so difficult to recognise, and how people can begin to recover.
An exploration of one of our most formative and complex relationships, including inherited patterns, emotional expectations, boundaries and the impact the mother-daughter dynamic can have on identity and wellbeing.
Drawing on Lorraine’s experience in advertising, the music industry and psychotherapy, this topic examines the psychological impact of high-pressure working cultures and how individuals and organisations can better protect mental health.
Why constantly caring, accommodating and carrying responsibility for others can become psychologically exhausting, and how healthier boundaries can support stronger relationships and personal wellbeing.
Lorraine Collins is a psychotherapist who came to the work the long way round. She spent her early career in advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi, then in the music industry working with artists including The Prodigy and James Brown, before retraining and spending formative years in the NHS, where she worked with complex cases including borderline personality disorder and generalised anxiety disorder.
It was the pace of those advertising and music years, the long hours and accumulated stress, the slow wearing-down that high-pressure work does quietly while you’re too busy to notice, that brought her to her own burnout.
That experience is what turned Lorraine Collins toward the work. Burnout now sits at the centre of her practice: not only the workplace kind, but the deeper, less-discussed exhaustion that comes from relationships. The invisible labour of difficult family dynamics, and the particular weight of the mother-daughter bond, is the subject she writes and speaks about most.
Based in private practice in Central London, Lorraine is an accredited integrative psychotherapist and cognitive behavioural therapist with over fifteen years of clinical experience. She is a registered member of the BACP and the BAATN, and holds an MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and a BSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Her work has never stayed inside the consulting room. She has given her time to community trauma support, and during the pandemic she founded an online drug and alcohol support group that has since grown into a global community, still running today, still a lifeline for people in recovery around the world.
Lorraine contributes to Good Housekeeping and Elle as a psychotherapist, and her writing and expertise have featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Time, Stylist and Breathe. Editors and producers come to her for commentary on relational and workplace burnout, the mother-daughter dynamic, and the pressures of modern life, and she has spoken on panels on these themes too. She brings to each a clinical grounding matched by genuine personal understanding.
Much of her own thinking about recovery has been worked out at her allotment. It’s where she writes about gardening as something closer to a practice than a pastime, about what tending to growing things does for an overstimulated nervous system, and about the idea that therapy doesn’t only happen in a therapy room. It’s also where she did a great deal of her own healing alongside her mother, the relationship at the heart of her work.
Lorraine Collins is currently completing her debut book on relational burnout: a way out for anyone still in it. Alongside it she is growing The Assembly, a wellbeing community for women who are tired not from doing too little, but from giving too much, for too long, to everyone but themselves.
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Lorraine Collins speaks on Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Future of Work, Mental Health, Society & Education. Talks can be shaped around your audience, industry and strategic objectives - share your event brief with London Speaker Bureau and we will work with Lorraine to align the content with your delegates and goals.
London Speaker Bureau can book Lorraine Collins for events worldwide, subject to Lorraine's schedule. Please send us your event date, location and format and we will confirm availability and handle travel and logistics on your behalf.
Virtual and hybrid keynotes are now a standard part of the speaking industry. Please contact London Speaker Bureau to confirm whether Lorraine Collins is available to deliver a virtual session for your event and on which platform (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, a bespoke studio or your own).
Most keynote speeches run between 45 and 60 minutes, often followed by a 15-30 minute Q&A. Other formats - shorter conference slots, panel appearances or longer workshop sessions - may also be possible. Share your agenda with London Speaker Bureau and we will confirm what Lorraine can accommodate.
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Lorraine Collins delivers keynotes in English. This profile may not list every language available; ask London Speaker Bureau to confirm. If you require simultaneous interpretation or a multilingual format, please mention this in your enquiry and London Speaker Bureau will arrange it for you.
Lorraine Collins's areas of expertise include Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Future of Work, Mental Health, Society & Education. To get a clear sense of Lorraine's style, credentials and how they engage an audience, please review the biography, popular talks and any videos or testimonials shown on this page, or request a detailed speaker brief from London Speaker Bureau.
Lorraine Collins can be booked through London Speaker Bureau for corporate conferences, leadership events, internal team meetings, association gatherings and private client engagements where expertise in Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Future of Work, Mental Health, Society & Education is relevant. Details of Lorraine's background and previous engagements are included in the biography above; contact us if you would like a more detailed list of past clients or case studies.
Beyond keynote speeches, many of the speakers on our roster also take part in workshops, executive masterclasses, panel discussions and fireside chats. Contact London Speaker Bureau with your preferred format and we will confirm what Lorraine Collins is able to offer alongside or instead of a keynote.
We generally recommend enquiring at least three to twelve months in advance to secure your preferred date with Lorraine Collins, particularly during peak conference seasons. Where possible we also accommodate shorter lead times - please contact London Speaker Bureau to check Lorraine's current availability for your dates.