Meet Our Founder
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LaReo Riviere
A Senior Social Worker, LaReo is an advanced mental health practitioner who has over 20 years’ experience in delivering and managing front line mental health services. LaReo has a particular academic interest in the intersection of race, culture and mental health. Over the years he has spent many years teaching and training in undergraduate and postgraduate spaces and has developed a true passion for working with professionals to improve systems from within. At Mental Capacity Building, LaReo has brought together his clinical experience, strategic know-how and passion for teaching to lead an organisation committed to providing dynamic and transformative mental health training programmes.

Our Mission
To inform and empower mental health and non mental health professionals to make a meaningful and positive difference in the lives of citizens who use or are interested mental health services.
Our Pillars
DYNAMIC
We strive to remain flexible
and offer progressive
interventions that make
positive change inevitable
through adaptability.
INFORMED
Being informed means the team will build a strong knowledge base to best support the client.
EMPOWERING
We aim to
help people improve by
equipping them with the best
tools to succeed.
THOUGHTFUL
A thoughtful approach helps us understand each other to build effective purposeful teams.
Our Vision
To radically change the experience of citizens who use mental health services by creating spaces where people recover.

