A Girl Called Rainbow

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Memberships & accreditations

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BA (Hons) Humanistic and Integrative Counselling, First Class
CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
ILM Level 7 Coaching and Mentoring
CMI Level 7 Strategic Management and Leadership
Advanced Certificate in Grief and Bereavement Counselling
Certificate in Trauma-Informed Practice
Certificate in Working Therapeutically with Neurodivergence
Internal Family Systems, Levels 1 and 2

About Rainbow

Rainbow Tomes

Therapist Researcher Trainer Speaker

Rainbow is the founder of A Girl Called Rainbow, which helps organisations prevent harm and improve performance through mental health training, leadership coaching and counselling. In 2010, her life changed when her eldest son's father died by suicide. Realising how little she knew about mental health, and how hard the right support was to find, she made it her mission to help others get the support her family didn't have. Since then, her work has supported thousands of people through the most difficult of times.

A qualified counsellor and coach registered with the NCPS, Rainbow specialises in grief and trauma. For over eight years, she has trained organisations in mental health first aid and suicide prevention. Alongside her professional training and research, she brings lived experience of being autistic with ADHD and CPTSD.

Rainbow's research looks at what happens to people's mental health and performance when systems fail to recognise their experiences and needs. It also asks how organisations can prevent that harm. She explored this in her degree research with 20 qualified counsellors, graduating with First Class Honours. Through a PhD in Business and Law with Bournemouth University, she is now taking this to doctoral level, building evidence organisations can use to prevent harm and improve performance.

Drawing on her work with individuals and organisations, from the NHS to national employers, Rainbow has developed three core approaches, grounded in ongoing research: Human-Informed Practice®, Human-Informed Leadership® and True Colours Therapy®. She shares this work at conferences and on her Talking Grief podcast, where leaders, HR professionals and people with lived experience talk openly about grief at work.

For organisations

Support for your people, and the people who lead them

From poor mental health and sickness absence to bereavement, we support employees through the most challenging times with care and confidence.

Our training, coaching and therapeutic support helps organisations prevent harm, manage absence, support recovery, strengthen working relationships and improve performance.

When someone on your team is struggling, we offer tailored online workshops and one-to-one support. We also build the confidence of leaders and managers to talk with their teams about mental health.

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Certified courses

Mental Health First Aid
MHFA for Managers
MHFA Refresher
Suicide First Aid

Plus 60–90 minute online workshops on a range of mental health and wellbeing topics.

Coaching

Executive, leadership and management
Maternity, paternity and family leave
Returning to work from long-term absence
Neurodiversity in the workplace

9.7/10

average course rating

96%

rate our course "Very Good"

96%

feel more knowledgeable after attending

Participant feedback collected by Mental Health First Aid England.

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"The Suicide First Aid Training has dramatically improved our confidence and knowledge when talking about suicide."Specsavers

"Rainbow and the team have helped us develop a support programme for our mental health first aiders."Henry Boot

"She is wise beyond measure in how she approaches often difficult situations."Lea Turner, LinkedIn trainer and founder of HoLT Community

"I'm grateful for the space Rainbow held for each of us to talk, question, discuss and practise openly without judgement."Nicole, Ocado – Mental Health First Aid course participant

Let's talk about what your people need.

In a free 15-minute call, we'll listen to what's happening in your organisation and suggest practical next steps.

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Speaking and masterclasses

Good Intentions Aren't Enough

Why every leader needs Human-Informed Practice®

A 45-minute online masterclass for up to 20 leaders from your organisation.

Drawing on original research, it explores how everyday leadership decisions, workplace processes and organisational systems can unintentionally cause harm, affecting people's mental health, trust, sense of self and performance.

Discover why good intentions alone aren't enough, and how Human-Informed Practice® offers a different way to think about leadership, organisational responsibility and preventing avoidable harm.

From £799 + VAT

Rainbow also gives conference talks and keynotes, tailored to your audience and event.

Book a free 15-minute call

Beyond EAP

Counselling for your employees

Grief and trauma can change how people see themselves, their relationships and their work. Our counselling service goes beyond traditional Employee Assistance Programmes.

Rainbow and her team work one-to-one with your employees, at their pace, in a space that's honest and free from judgement. Our counsellors and coaches are all qualified and registered with professional bodies, and we match each employee with the right practitioner, so their experience and needs are recognised.

One-to-one counselling and therapeutic coaching
Evidence-based, trauma-informed therapy
Medium- to long-term support
Online sessions, so people can join from wherever feels comfortable

Book a free 15-minute call to talk through what your people need, and we'll find the right support.

Book a free 15-minute call

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For individuals

True Colours Therapy®

Every part of you is welcome here.

When something has hurt you, whether that's grief, trauma or a system that should have cared for you, it can leave you feeling stuck, unheard or not quite yourself.

True Colours Therapy® is Rainbow's own integrative approach to one-to-one work. Drawing on Internal Family Systems, Gestalt and coaching, it helps you make sense of the different parts of yourself and what's happened to you, so you can trust your own insight and choose how you want to move forward.

Rainbow brings expertise in institutional harm, specialist training in working with neurodivergence, and her own lived experience of being autistic with ADHD, knowing that everyone's experience is different.

"I have tried different ways of coping for quite some time and never benefited from reaching out for help until now. Rainbow offers a safe space to be yourself. She partners with you, so you feel supported, and she actually listens."Sophie, client

Sessions are online. Not sure where to start? Book a free 15-minute call.

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Rainbow's story

Discover the story

Written by Alan J Hill, author of A Boy Called Arsenal. Out 28 January 2027, published by The Book Guild.

Long before this was Rainbow's work, it was her life. A Girl Called Rainbow tells that story.

"A true and remarkable story of triumph over adversity. A one-woman whirlwind determined to tackle mental health stigma and challenge the systems designed to help."From the book

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Talking Grief

Talking Grief is Rainbow's podcast about what grief really looks like at work. Leaders, HR professionals and people with lived experience share what helps, what doesn't, and how we can support each other through loss.

Guests include Simon Blake OBE (CEO, Stonewall), Martin Edwards (CEO, Julia's House Children's Hospice), Hannah O'Hare (CEO, Forest Home Hospice Charity), Jane Barry (Managing Director, Liberty Recruitment Group), Jess Jones (Founder, Secora Group), Erica Farmer (Co-Founder, Quantum Rise Talent Group) and Becks Tridgell (Co-Founder, Autistic Women's Club).

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