Anna Mathur

Why organisations work with Anna Mathur

• Clinical credibility most workplace wellbeing speakers cannot match. BACP accreditation, a Master’s from Regent’s University and NHS and private practice experience sit behind every session.
• A body of work that has reached a mainstream audience on its own merits, including four Sunday Times bestsellers under Penguin Life and a podcast past three million downloads, so she arrives with recognition employees already have.
• Practical tools rather than awareness raising. Sessions land on techniques people can use the same week for anxiety, people pleasing, guilt and worth at work.
• A register that works for stigma-sensitive topics. She has presented to teams at Google, Spotify, Bain & Company, Soho House and UCL on subjects most speakers reduce to platitudes.

Biography highlights

• BACP-accredited psychotherapist; MA Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London; BSc Social Psychology, Loughborough University.
• Author of four Sunday Times bestsellers published by Penguin Life: Mind Over Mother, Know Your Worth, The Little Book of New Mum Feelings and The Uncomfortable Truth (March 2025).
• Host of The Therapy Edit podcast, more than 3 million downloads, charting on Apple and Spotify.
• Corporate keynote and seminar work for Google, Spotify, Bain & Company, Soho House and UCL.
• Broadcast contributor on Sky News, Good Morning Britain, BBC Three and Steph’s Packed Lunch; columns and features in Grazia, Stylist, Red, Marie Claire, Psychologies, The Telegraph and Daily Mail.
• Instagram community of around 225,000 followers built on practical psychotherapeutic content rather than influencer wellness.

Biography

Most workplace mental health content stops at awareness. Employees know the language of burnout, anxiety and boundaries; what they do not have is a clinician’s read on what to actually do with those feelings on a Tuesday morning. Anna Mathur’s work sits in that gap. She is a BACP-accredited psychotherapist trained at Regent’s University London, with NHS and private practice experience behind a body of writing and broadcasting that has reached an audience well beyond the consulting room.

Penguin Life has published four of her books to Sunday Times bestseller status, most recently The Uncomfortable Truth in March 2025, which addresses ten of the fears that drive overwhelm, perfectionism and people pleasing. The Therapy Edit, her podcast of ten-minute episodes, has passed three million downloads and is a regular Apple and Spotify chart fixture. These are not sidelines to a therapy practice. They are the practice operating at scale.

For corporate audiences, the practical content stays close to the clinical work. Anxiety, stress, guilt around work and parenting, self-worth and the people-pleasing patterns that show up in managerial behaviour are the recurring subjects. Sessions for Google, Spotify, Bain & Company, Soho House and UCL have run from intimate sofa-style workshops with leadership teams to webinars for retail managers in the hundreds.

What organisations are paying for is the combination of clinical seriousness and accessible delivery. The accreditation is genuine, the book record is verifiable, and the techniques people leave with are the same ones she uses with private clients. That is what makes the content land in workplaces where wellbeing fatigue is already setting in.

Key speaking topics

• Anxiety and overwhelm at work
• Workplace mental health and wellbeing
• People pleasing and burnout
• Self-worth and imposter feelings
• Stress and resilience
• The working parent: guilt, worry and capacity
• Boundaries and emotional regulation

Ideal for

• People, culture, DEI and wellbeing leads commissioning credible mental health content
• Senior leadership offsites where the brief is composure, sustainability and self-leadership
• Employee resource groups, particularly working parents and women’s networks
• Professional services and tech firms with high-performance cultures and rising anxiety reporting

Audience outcomes

• A working vocabulary for anxiety, overwhelm and self-worth that employees can use without clinical training.
• Specific techniques for managing intrusive worry, perfectionist patterns and the people-pleasing reflex at work.
• Permission, from a clinician, to interrupt the productivity-at-all-costs logic that is driving burnout.
• A reset on what self-care actually means in a working week, distinct from the wellness industry version.
• Confidence among managers to hold mental health conversations with team members without overstepping.