At Olly’s Future, our training provides a clear and compassionate starting point for conversations around suicide, building confidence, shared understanding, and practical tools for responding when it matters most.
For those looking to deepen their knowledge or explore specific areas of practice, we work with a small number of trusted associates whose work complements and extends this foundation.
Meet our Associate: Debi Roberts
Specialist in Safer Prescribing, Suicide Prevention & Systems Change
As part of our ongoing commitment to suicide prevention, intervention, and awareness within the medical community, we are pleased to introduce our associate, Debi Roberts.
Debi is Founder and CEO of Debi Roberts Wellbeing and Education. A published author with a Master’s in Emotional Literacy in Educational Settings, she brings over 30 years’ experience across mental health, education, and healthcare.
Over the past decade, her work has focused on suicide prevention, safer prescribing, and system-level change. She specialises in strengthening the conditions that make crises less likely, supporting psychological safety, emotional literacy, and clear, compassionate communication in complex environments.
Debi previously spent eight years as CEO of The OLLIE Foundation, where she led innovation in suicide prevention and worked closely with families, professionals, and systems at points of vulnerability.
How Debi’s Work Fits Alongside Ours
Debi’s work builds on the foundations created through Olly’s Future training, offering deeper exploration of specific areas including safer prescribing, system-level thinking, and psychological safety.
Her sessions are particularly valuable for professionals and organisations looking to extend their practice beyond initial awareness into more specialist or applied contexts.
A specialist area we particularly recommend:
Prescription Safe Plans (PSP)
Prescription Safe Plans (PSP) were developed in response to a critical but often overlooked risk.
While medication saves lives for many, for a small but significant minority, initiation or dose changes can precipitate intense distress or suicidal thinking. When this occurs, it is often unrecognised or misattributed.
PSP is a simple, structured, communication-based intervention designed to sit alongside good clinical care.
It supports:
- informed consent and shared understanding
- early recognition of emerging risk
- clear, accessible safety planning
- timely help-seeking without increasing fear or burden
PSP helps patients use medication more safely and confidently, while supporting clinicians to care well without carrying the weight alone.
Training & Development
Debi delivers training and talks that are practical, evidence-informed, and grounded in real-world application.
Her work supports people to:
- talk about suicide clearly and compassionately
- recognise risk early and respond with confidence
- use structured approaches to support safety
- reduce fear, stigma, and uncertainty
Access & Booking
We are currently integrating Debi’s work into our wider training pathway.
If you are interested in Prescription Safe Plans or any of Debi’s training, please register your interest with us and we will connect you directly to the most appropriate next step. You can contact us at [email protected]
Any work commissioned through this partnership contributes to supporting Olly’s Future’s ongoing suicide prevention work.