Workplace menopause expertise, without the noise
We bring together expertise in menopause, workplace wellbeing, mental health, and organisational psychology to help organisations create supportive, safer working environments.
Grounded in both professional experience and lived experience
Haley White and Victoria Brookbank founded MenoMinds, bringing together complementary expertise across menopause, workplace wellbeing, mental health, and organisational psychology.
Both found themselves facing symptoms they couldn’t explain: anxiety that didn’t respond to the usual techniques, brain fog that disrupted work they’d once done effortlessly, and a growing sense that something was missing from the wellbeing conversation.
Together, they bring compassion, credibility, and hard-won understanding to every session they deliver.
Victoria Brookbank
Victoria Brookbank is a workplace wellbeing specialist, psychotherapist, and mindfulness instructor.
She’s the founder of Minds That Work and has spent 14 years in the mental health space supporting organisations like the NHS, Network Rail, the police force, local government and universities to build mentally healthy workplace cultures.
Around 45, Victoria noticed her focus fading and anxiety rising, changes that didn’t respond to the usual wellbeing tools she’d taught for years. When a GP finally mentioned perimenopause, it connected dots she didn’t even realise were missing. That insight lifted years of self-blame and became the spark for MenoMinds.
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I’ve worked in mental health for most of my career, first as CEO of a mental health charity, and now as a business owner helping others manage stress and wellbeing at work. I thought I understood the mind inside out.
But around 45, something changed. My focus vanished. My patience shrank. My confidence quietly left the room. I’d forget what I was about to say in training sessions or lose track of what I was meant to be doing next. As someone who’s lived with anxiety and depression since my teens, I recognised those patterns, but this time, they were sharper and more unpredictable.
When a locum GP finally mentioned the word perimenopause, I was stunned. I realised that even as a mental-health professional, I had a huge blind spot. I knew the tools, but I’d never connected hormones with how my brain was functioning.
Moving from London to Devon helped calm my nervous system, but what truly helped was community and finding other women who said, “Me too.” It reminded me that I wasn’t broken; I was changing.
Now, that experience shapes everything I do. I want women to have the knowledge, language, and support I wish I’d had earlier, before the panic, self-doubt, and shame set in.
“Even with all my training, I wasn’t prepared for this.”
Today, Victoria co-leads MenoMinds, designing and delivering evidence-based sessions that help women understand what’s happening to their bodies and minds and rediscover their confidence.
Haley White
Haley White is the Co-Founder of MenoMinds, a mental health in menopause initiative helping women, small business owners and organisations better understand and respond to the emotional, psychological and workplace impact of menopause.
She is also the Founder of Menospace, a workplace training and consultancy organisation helping employers create practical, inclusive and legally aligned menopause support.
With over 15 years’ experience delivering workplace wellbeing training and a Master’s degree in Organisational Psychology, Haley combines evidence-based learning with practical workplace insight. Her work focuses on helping organisations move beyond awareness and towards meaningful action through manager training, menopause champion training, policy guidance, menopause action planning and wider cultural change.
Haley is also Co-Chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine’s Women’s Health at Work Network, where she contributes to wider conversations around women’s health, work, inclusion and organisational responsibility.
Through MenoMinds and Menospace, Haley works with employers and communities to build confidence, reduce stigma and support the wellbeing, retention and progression of women at work.
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When the 2020 lockdowns began, I was 40 and working across London, running wellbeing and mental health sessions for corporate clients. Then my own wellbeing changed. I started forgetting words, losing focus, and feeling sudden, overwhelming anxiety. After months of tests, a consultant told me I was perimenopausal — at 41.
I was completely shocked. I’d never even heard the word perimenopause before. Like so many women, I thought menopause was something that happened much later in life.
Coming from a wellbeing background, I couldn’t believe how little awareness there was. When I found a survey showing that one in ten women were leaving work because of menopause, I decided to do something about it. That’s how Menospace began. I wanted to help organisations understand menopause properly and support their people better.
But as I worked with companies across the UK and beyond, one gap kept appearing: the mental health impact of menopause still wasn’t being discussed. And as a founder working largely alone, I was feeling that gap myself.
That’s when I connected with Victoria. Together we created MenoMinds and combined menopause education with mental health support so women could feel seen, informed, and steady again.
We designed MenoMinds because it’s all connected: hormones, mood, confidence, cognition. When women understand what’s happening, the shame lifts and they start to feel like themselves again.
“I’d spent years teaching workplace wellbeing, but no one was talking about this.”
Today, Haley continues to train organisations across sectors while co-leading MenoMinds, ensuring no woman navigating menopause must do it unsupported or unseen.
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Whether you're starting the conversation or reviewing your existing approach, MenoMinds can help you understand where you are now, identify what needs attention and take practical action.
Our funding partner
MenoMinds is funded through NEBOSH’s Social Purpose Programme: a global initiative created to make a meaningful difference to health and wellbeing at work.
NEBOSH, an internationally recognised charity and awarding body, is best known for its qualifications in health, safety and environmental management. Through its Social Purpose Programme, NEBOSH extends that mission beyond training and supports projects that reach people often missed by traditional workplace wellbeing schemes, including self-employed and freelance workers and those working in micro-businesses.
Thanks to NEBOSH’s support, every MenoMinds session is completely free to attend, with no hidden costs, no upsells, and no catch.
“Our Social Purpose Programme is about reaching people who might not otherwise have access to wellbeing support. MenoMinds is a great example of how collaboration can make that possible — improving understanding and changing conversations around menopause and mental health for self-employed women.”
— Mariyah Mandhu, Social Development Manager, NEBOSH