Our Story

WellSpace was co-founded by Laura Guy and Lauren Wallace.

Having met whilst working together on the Fulfilling Lives programme, we both experienced enormous satisfaction working in a way which allowed us to be authentic, innovative and caring in client work and project development. We felt passionate about taking a truly trauma informed approach and shared a love of training and learning, developing and facilitating a number of programmes together locally and nationally. 

Recognising our alignment in experience, values and approach, once the programme came to an end we felt excited about creating an opportunity to share our learning and produce training which was grounded, useful and left people feeling positive and empowered.

We knew there was already lots of training out there. What’s different about Wellspace? Our sessions are open, curious and honest and our facilitation is grounded in experience and down to earth. 


The name WellSpace came about as a reflection of our values and our understanding of what it is to be trauma informed. Think about a Well - serving the community, central to it. Providing water, essential for nurturing life. Water shifts shape, changes, flows. Space speaks to a format which is accessible, unbound and inclusive. We hope to be all these things when creating a space for learning. 

  • Laura Guy

    "I have worked in a variety of contexts from Social Services, Housing and Homelessness services and Counselling services.

    When working in the Fulfilling Lives programme, it struck me how services around people would make judgements about their capacity to engage and to recover, often at odds with what people are saying and believe about themselves.

    This experience led me to train as a counsellor to work with people who have been excluded from mental health and other services. I believe in the transformative power of a genuine relationship, and of working through rupture together rather than jumping to exclusion - both of us can learn so much from that!

    In addition to this work, it has been a joy to continue to work with Lauren, who I met on the Fulfilling Lives programme and to work with teams and individuals who are in their roles because they want to improve things for the people they work with, but find that systems and procedures sometimes are at odds with that intention. Its been a privilege to work alongside so many incredible individuals and teams on their journey toward this ambition towards truly inclusive practice!"

  • Lauren Wallace

    “I have worked passionately with people experiencing multiple disadvantage and the projects that support them for the past twelve years. Working intensively with clients over the years I developed some incredibly meaningful, longstanding relationships and learnt more than I could’ve ever imagined about life. I have memories of sheer joy and connection but also recollections of some incredibly tough and testing times. To me that’s what this work is about; sometimes wild ups and downs, with the hope to stand by people during some of the most vulnerable and painful moments of their life. Something we can only do when we feel safe and cared for ourselves. I loved client work so much that I was initially unsure about moving into project management and development. But I soon realised the difference that effective and grounded training and learning could make to teams. I loved working with Laura and admired her honesty and ability to maintain a sense of humour that felt kind and warm. So I was very excited about taking all our learning from the Fulfilling Lives programme and the amazing people we have worked with over the years to share what we know and create space for learning together.”