Living Well UK Board
Please find below all members of the Living Well UK Board Members and an overview of their field of expertise.
Louise McKiernan
Director Disability Resource Centre
Board Chair Living Well UK
Louise Mckiernan is Chief Executive of the Disability Resource Centre; one of the leading disability organisations operating in Birmingham, Solihull and the wider West Midlands providing a range of services to disabled people, frail older people, and those with long term health conditions.
This includes not only individuals with mental ill health but also those presenting with poor mental health as a result of their impairment or health condition.
Service provision for people with mental ill health in Birmingham includes:
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- Information, advice and advocacy support on such issues as housing, debt, fuel poverty, welfare, safeguarding, independent living and access to statutory and non-statutory services
- Confidential counselling services
- Social, leisure and health promotion activities
- Life skills and personal development training
- Work preparation and employment support
- Help at Home Service supporting people to live independently in their own homes through the provision of domestic support tasks, garden maintenance and handy-person services
Davy Hay
Managing Director of Pattigift
Davy is the Managing Director of Pattigift Therapy CIC, an African centred psychological therapies organisation based in Birmingham. His background is in the field of mental health where he has worked as a mental health nurse in areas such as inpatients, community liaison, elderly, and substance misuse. He has also worked as a mental health lecturer.
Davy holds a degree in Nursing and Mental Health, and a Postgraduate qualification as a Specialist Mental Health Practitioner. Alongside working in the UK, his work as taken him to the Caribbean and Saudi Arabia.
After 25 years, Davy left the NHS to found Pattigift Therapy. He is proud to have created the first (and only) independent mental health hospital focussed on the cultural and psychological needs of African heritage people.
Jointly with a colleague at Pattigift, Davy recieved the Presidents award from the Association of Black Psychologists (USA) in 2016 for “advancing African centred healing internationally”.
Jennifer Jones-Rigby
CEO Bethel Health & Healing Network
Jennifer is a dynamic mission driven, focused CEO of Bethel Health & Healing Network with over 30 years’ experience in the Charitable and Social Enterprise community health and well-being sector. As CEO for Bethel Health and Healing Network, she leads amazing teams and volunteers who work with the most vulnerable pregnant women across Birmingham, Solihull and parts of the Black Country. This service provides vital support regarding birth planning, birth attendance and structured nutrition and health guidance for women who are often afraid to access service and are faced with challenging statistics regarding their survival during pregnancy, birth and postnatally. Over 25% of those women are asylum seekers or refugees and over 20% are Moms with complex needs including mental health challenges and Safeguarding concerns. The listening support provided by Bethel which she has supported the growth of, provides much needed listening sessions to over 120 men and women each year.
She has worked tirelessly in her local church community around health, recently securing funding to support group sessions for members of the Pentecostal church to be supported around Covid and Long Covid and its impact on those church communities and the number of members and leaders they lost during the pandemic. As part of the social action team, leading on health and wellbeing, she has supported those with life limiting conditions to a make healthier positive choices over the last 15 years and continues to work with communities to improve their long-term condition self-management.
In previous capacity as COO for Health Exchange she worked with a number of community groups including those with COPD and Type 2 Diabetes and within mental health support and training. She has been instrumental in capacity building for challenged communities in the West Midlands and beyond, with this work being impactful both locally and nationally and internationally. She has recently finished a pivotal piece of work contributing to research with Warwick University, Kaiser Permanente and University of the West Indies (Barbados) to support research around service user led solutions for better self-management of Type 2 Diabetes in African Caribbean/African Caribbean communities.
Historically Jennifer’s work within Black Mental health organisations has included the setting up of the first Community Advocacy service in Sheffield within Primary Care and the community, spent across Northwest Birmingham for Scarman Trust to reduce the impact of Guns and gangs and improve outcomes for those not in education or employment in the most deprived areas in Birmingham. She held the position as RCCP Disciplinary Committee Lay Chair for over 4 years, is an FRSA fellow and is a Trustee House of Praise (COGOP)and a Mental Health Panel Member (Faith and Community) as part of the Mental Health Collective in partnership with BSMHFT.
Lovemore Kalibe Masiane
Clinical Lead and CBT & EMDR Therapist at Our Roots CIC
Lovemore Kalibe Masiane is a passionate and dedicated mental health professional with a longstanding commitment to helping others. With a career rooted in education and community support, Lovemore began as a teacher and mentor, working across various community settings to empower both young people and adults.
Lovemore trained as a Mental Health Nurse and has been a registered mental health professional since 2006. His journey has taken him through diverse clinical environments within the NHS and the charity sector, providing him with a broad perspective on mental health care.
In 2008, Lovemore's path took a transformative turn when he trained as a person-centred counsellor, igniting a deep passion for psychotherapy. He expanded his clinical expertise by training as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) therapist in 2009, becoming fully accredited, and later qualifying as a CBT supervisor in 2012. Since then, he has worked across the UK as a CBT therapist and Clinical Lead.
Lovemore joined the Living Well Consortium in 2016 as a locum supervisor, and in 2017 became Clinical Lead at Our Roots CIC. His leadership evolved into the role of Operations and Clinical Executive, where he played a key role in developing a progressive NHS Talking Therapies service delivered through the Consortium.
In 2024, he completed training as an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) therapist and is currently working toward full accreditation in this evidence-based trauma therapy.
Lovemore’s strengths lie not only in his deep clinical knowledge and passion for psychotherapy, but also in his ability to lead, innovate, and drive service development. He has a visionary mindset and is skilled at piloting projects, fostering growth, and building sustainable mental health services.