When someone asks for help, they deserve to receive it — and not be harmed.
Care · Collaborate · Connect trains health professionals, organisations, and schools to deliver care that meets people's needs — and the evidence shows it works.
For decades, people who asked for help with suicidal thoughts often left clinical encounters feeling worse — not better. Research consistently showed that standard risk-assessment approaches left consumers feeling dismissed, traumatised, and unsupported.
This was not a failure of intent. It was a failure of listening.
Consumers were already coping, often in extraordinary circumstances. They had innate strengths. What they needed — and what they told us — was to be cared for, understood, and supported. They needed health professionals who would listen and support, not observe and manage.
From that came Care · Collaborate · Connect — a world-first approach grounded in what consumers said they needed, supported by three theoretical foundations developed through published research: the Health Theory of Coping, the Coping Continuum, and the Modifiable Domains of Health and Wellbeing.
Who We Work With
Supporting someone well is not solely a clinical skill. Anyone who supports others can learn to create the kind of response that genuinely helps.
Individuals
Learn to support the people in your life with confidence and care.
Health Professionals
Advanced clinical skills in suicide prevention and consumer-centred care.
Organisations
Build a culture of care across your workforce and meet duty of care.
Schools
Create communities where students and staff feel genuinely supported.
Dr Helen Stallman
Dr Helen Stallman is an award-winning clinical psychologist whose research and clinical work spans suicide prevention, consumer-centred care, and health and wellbeing. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and received 11 awards recognising her contributions to suicide prevention and university student wellbeing.
Helen developed the Health Theory of Coping, the Coping Continuum, and the Modifiable Domains of Health and Wellbeing — three theoretical frameworks that underpin Care · Collaborate · Connect, a world-first consumer-centred approach to suicide prevention and clinical care delivered to health professionals, organisations, and schools. She also developed the My Coping Plan app, whose efficacy in reducing psychological distress has been confirmed in two randomised controlled trials.
Helen delivers keynote addresses nationally and internationally on consumer-centred approaches to suicide prevention, clinical formulation, and health and wellbeing. Her presentations translate theoretical frameworks directly into practice — giving health professionals concrete tools to understand problems and support consumers who ask for support, without causing harm.
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