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Leading with heart and impact, reshaping how solo parenting, post separation abuse, and public health are understood, through insight, inclusive leadership, and capacity building.
Leading with heart and impact, reshaping how solo parenting, post separation abuse, and public health are understood, through insight, inclusive leadership, and capacity building.
Empowera is a socially driven organisation combining lived experience, academic insight, and professional expertise to advocate for solo parents, post-separation abuse awareness, and mental health.
We deliver coaching, consultancy, and capacity-building services to uplift underrepresented voices and transform systems from within. Our mission is to empower solo parents and drive systemic change through coaching, consultancy, and community-led programmes.
Our work is centred on three pillars:
Empower: Supporting solo parents and families through resilience building programmes like FLOURISH.
Educate: Providing specialist training in post-separation abuse, public health, mental health, and suicide prevention.
Elevate: Strengthening organisations through strategic consultancy and capacity-building to drive lasting, systemic change.
I'm Raj, an experienced Public Health Specialist with formal training in mindset coaching, behaviour change, Public Mental Health, and trauma-informed practice. As the founder of Empowera I’m passionate about helping individuals and organisations create meaningful, lasting change.
Empowera is deeply personal. It was born from my own lived experience as a solo parent – navigating trauma, cultural barriers, and the challenge of rebuilding my life and career. That journey fuels the work I do today.
Through Empowera, I deliver coaching, training, and consultancy designed to uplift underserved voices and transform the systems around them. From resilience-building programmes for solo parents and their families, to specialist training in post-separation abuse, mental health, and suicide prevention – everything we offer is rooted in compassion, lived experience, and a drive for systemic impact.
Empowera isn’t just a business. It’s a movement for healing, empowerment, and change – and I’m proud to walk alongside others on similar paths.
Raj and her associates were a pleasure to work with. They were talented, people centred, knowledgeable and presented well. They delivered us an excellent needs assessment and engagement with our stakeholders was a real strength. We would certainly work with Raj again.
Jessica Mookherjee – Public Health Consultant @Kent County Council
I approached Raj to develop and pilot two different workshops to support public health practitioners with portfolio development. The workshops required were for two different audiences and were for online delivery. The workshops she developed evaluated well and have become a staple aspect of the UKPHR practitioner programmes in three regions.
Alix Sheppard – UKPHR Practitioner Registration Scheme Coordinator, Director @Health Talks Ltd
Raj was very engaging and encouraged a quiet group to contribute using her own experience and knowledge of mentoring and coaching to aid conversations.
Really useful conversations to help frame what the mentoring process for supporting someone through UKPHR needs to look like. It was absolutely the expertise of the facilitator and the willingness of the attendees to share that helped us to reflect on how we can best support this process.
I enjoyed the sessions as it is not very often I can sit back and reflect. This is a well serving course and I would recommend practitioners to sign up at the earliest availability of their journey (or midway for that moral support).
I found the coaching session really useful. It would be useful for other areas of my study/practice to refer back to. Raj the facilitator was very clear, concise and very understanding and supportive.
