Jade Ecobichon-Gray

Jade Ecobichon-Gray, BSc (Hons) MSc is a behavioural change and social wellness consultant with extensive experience in business development and transformational change initiatives. Jade works with both public and private sector organisations to create, embed, and sustain equitable social wellness strategies and DEI initiatives through bespoke end to end consultancy, workshop facilitation, educational seminars, and webinars. 

Prior to her role as a consultant Jade worked in addiction recovery, reducing reoffending and mental health support for both voluntary and public sector organisations, this led to a role as Deputy Program Manager at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, delivering on a quality assurance process for two standards-based organisational change and improvement programs, namely Enabling Environments and Community of Communities.

A strong believer in the importance of social wellness as the most important foundation for sustainable wellbeing and authentic change, Jades work is driven by curiosity, resulting in organisational change that is both evidence-based and innovative. 

Jade is also passionate about the intersection of wellbeing and racial identity, understanding that workplace wellness must be aligned to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives to achieve value on investment for staff from diverse backgrounds. In her spare time Jade writes extensively about her experiences as a ‘white-assumed’ mixed-race woman and facilitates an expert workshop for the Mixed Bloom Room, a coaching course for mixed-race adults in the US and UK. 

Laura Morton, Forensic Psychologist

Laura Morton is a Forensic Psychologist currently working in the Adolescent At-risk and Forensic Service, a National & Specialist Community and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Her previous role was in the Youth Custody Service, providing a range of clinical, research, training, supervision and consultancy services. Prior to qualifying as a psychologist she specialised in substance misuse and led the City of London Substance Misuse Service, which included joint delivery and evaluation of a smoking cessation project with Queen Mary’s University London.

Laura is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society, in the division of forensic psychology, and a practitioner psychologist registered with the Health Care Professions Council. Prior to joining Resolve Consultants as an Associate, she provided consultancy to British Psychological Society. As well as a trainee Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner with the SE Trauma Institute, she is a student of the Education for Racial Equity, California.

Education & Training

• BSc Psychology (Nottingham University), 2010
• MSc Forensic Psychology (Nottingham University), 2011
• Stage 2 Diploma in Forensic Psychology (British Psychological Society), 2020
• Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism (Education for Racial Equity), 2022
• Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SE Trauma Institute), in training

Research & Publications

Arday, J. & Morton, L. (2022). Black pupils, mental health and resilience, in A. Mahmud & L. Satchell (Eds.), Mental Wellbeing in Schools: What Teachers Need to Know to Support Pupils from Diverse Backgrounds. Abingdon: Routledge.

Brooks, S., Johnson, P., Clarke, S. & Morton, L. (2019). Youth Custody Service Safeguarding Review. London, UK: Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service [online]. Available: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-custody-servic-safeguarding-review

Morton, L. (2016). A case report of a concurrent treatment of cannabis and tobacco use within a community substance misuse service. Journal of Addiction, Research & Therapy, 7: 279.

Morton, L. & Nanda, M. (2017, May 18). Capital Card™ Reward Scheme: Earn, Spend Live: The Future of Client Engagement. Poster presented at: Social Prescribing: from Rhetoric to Reality, Kinds Fund Conference, London, UK. Available at: www.wdp.org.uk/sites/default/files/content/A1%20Capital%20Card%20Poster.pd