Mental Health Coach and MHC Brief Therapist training You become the person others feel safe being themselves with.
Programme designer and lead trainer: Ville Merinen, known online as Terapeutti-Ville (Therapist Ville).
In one year, psychotherapists teach you how the mind works and how to meet a person who is under strain. Online, on Sundays, with real people. You can join without a qualification in health or social care.
After the year, you will know what to do when someone is not coping. Month by month, with no upfront fee.
The Mental Health Coach and MHC Brief Therapist programmes are currently taught in Finnish: live sessions, recordings and peer groups.
Mental health training from Finland, ranked the happiest country in the world in the World Happiness Report 2026 for the ninth year in a row. Source: World Happiness Report 2026
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Taught by psychotherapists
Ville Merinen, Mika Karppinen, Riina Tähti-Georgiadis, Minttu Lämsä and Maija Koskinen. Our teaching is integrative. We combine several therapeutic traditions, our lead trainers work from a psychodynamic orientation, and we add Empathic Realism, an approach we developed ourselves.
Nobody learns alone
A live session on Sundays, your own peer group and a community you can stay in after the programme. Hearing how others think shows you things you would not notice by reading on your own.
Month by month
€129/month with no upfront fee and no year-long commitment. The price is the same in both years. You can join without a qualification in health or social care.
MHC programmes do not qualify you as a psychotherapist in Finland. You learn to help people and to recognise when to refer them on to other help.
When someone takes the time to see you, you start to find more strength of your own.
We do our part to make it a little easier to live, work and breathe in Finland.
We train people to recognise strain and to meet another person without rushing to fix or label them. It is a skill that can be learned, and you can learn it in a year.
This is Empathic Realism: feeling what the other person feels, and seeing the truth even when it is uncomfortable.
Empathic Realism
Three routes to the same skill: seeing a person as a whole.
After the Coach year, difficult conversations no longer feel frightening.
44 evening lessons in five themes, on Sundays via Zoom, with your own peer group alongside you. No previous qualification is required.
How the mind works
Emotional skills, presence, defences, shame and attachment in adulthood. Understanding the mind without stigma.
Mental health challenges
Anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions and when to refer someone on to other help.
Relational skills
The professional core of a coach’s work: validation, a calming presence and the basics of crisis support.
Wellbeing
The coach’s own foundation: sleep, movement, calming the nervous system and the ability to recover.
Your identity as a coach
Who you are as a coach: your role and responsibilities, and making Empathic Realism part of how you work.
You receive a certificate of completion and join the MHC community, where learning continues.
See the full curriculumYour programme is by far the highest-quality training I have taken part in. Different kinds of learners are taken into account brilliantly: I have learning difficulties, and I can watch the lectures again later and get a summary of each one.
Really interesting lectures and discussions on Sundays, and afterwards too. The programme is run in a very human way, even though we have covered some difficult topics. The entire MHC community is wonderful. I warmly recommend it.
It feels wonderful to find a programme from Finland that even those of us who have moved away from Finland can take remotely. I found the courage to join because of the expertise and the warm welcome. I have already made lovely new acquaintances in the peer groups.
Quotes translated from Finnish.
You pay month by month.
Programmes with an upfront fee cost thousands of euros in advance. With us, you pay month by month, the price is the same in both years, and you decide whether to continue.
- Mental Health Coach
- 44 evening lessons, 5 themes
- Sunday watch parties
- Peer groups · recordings available for one month
- Currently taught in Finnish
- The MHC Brief Therapist year
- 44 evening lessons · a therapeutic way of working
- Supervised client practice and peer groups
- Currently taught in Finnish
The first Brief Therapist year starts in January 2027. Personal therapy and clinical supervision are paid for separately.
Prices include 25.5% VAT.
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Trained therapists with years of experience working with clients. Each profile shows the person’s training and way of working.
17 professionals: coaches, brief therapists and therapists from across Finland.
Each professional is responsible for their own work and invoices you directly.
Join a Finnish-speaking community where mental health is discussed in everyday language, clearly and with expertise.
Let’s make mental wellbeing a common cause.
Mental Health Coach €129/month (incl. 25.5% VAT).