Psychology consultancy & wellbeing for founders, leaders & organisations

Founders are building extraordinary things. No one is asking how they are doing it.

The psychological architecture of leadership — clinician-led, survey-backed, built for people who build from values.

The signature sessions

The gap

Sustainable Leadership

We think carefully about what we're building — and almost never about how the founders, leaders and teams behind it will sustain the values, the work ethic, the dynamic.

Sera builds sustainable leadership: decision-making, strategy, leadership skills, problem-solving, and values-aligned work and conversations — built into your programme or organisation.

What Sera does

One Architecture, Three Levels

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Founders & Leaders

Confidential consultation and structured support for the people carrying the most — founders and the senior leaders around them. A private, clinician-led space for decision fatigue, identity fusion, isolation, and the load that has no owner.

Teams

Clinician-led workshops — psychological safety, difficult conversations, sustainable load. Practical structures your team can use the next day, not theory that stays on a slide.

Organisations & Accelerators

Embedded partnership for accelerators, programmes and organisations — wellbeing architecture built in, not bolted on. Survey-backed, reviewed, and designed around how your programme or organisation actually works.

Services

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Founder Consultation

One-to-one confidential, executive coaching for founders and leaders. Psychologically informed, spiritually grounded. Built for the weight founders carry — beyond their team and organisation.

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Organisational Health Audit

Clinical diagnostics of an organisation's psychological health, culture, and risks. Reports, leadership debrief, and a clear action plan to take forward.

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Signature Sessions

Bespoke working sessions for founders, leaders, accelerator programmes, teams — practical, evidence-based, shaped to you or your cohort.
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Embedded Partnership

Sera embedded in your accelerator or organisation — sessions, office hours, design and strategic input across a cohort or a year. Ongoing founder consults, crisis response, and quarterly strategic review. Your own architecture, built in from the start.

Every engagement is clinically governed. If something serious surfaces in a room, it is held properly — by a registered clinician, with a referral path ready. Engagements are sized for charities as well as funded programmes.

Signature sessions

For founders & leaders

Sustainable Leadership

How to lead without depleting. Decision-making under pressure, managing your energy and load, and keeping your judgement aligned with your values when the stakes are highest. The skills that make ambition last.

Half-day up to 20 In person or online
For teams

High-Trust Teams

The conditions that make teams honest, fast and safe. Feedback that lands, conflict that resolves, and the conversations that keep a culture healthy as it grows.

Half-day One team at a time In person or online
For organisations & volunteer-led teams

Values That Hold

How mission-driven organisations sustain the people who carry them. Motivation that lasts, expectations that stick, and a culture where the mission and the people both thrive.

Half-day up to 25 In person or online

How it works

Bespoke to Your Cohort

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Foundation

We start by understanding your people and your context — quickly and precisely. No engagement runs on assumptions.

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Delivery

Sessions, consultation or partnership — shaped to what we find, delivered in a register your people trust.

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Momentum

Follow-through for every person in the room, and a themes report your programme can use — with funders, with boards, with the next cohort.

The founder

Dr Ujala Ilyas

Clinical Psychologist, HCPC registered, trained at King's College London — with fluency in evidence-based frameworks, ethics, and a spiritually-attuned, human-centred practice, stretching beyond psychological models alone. Previous experience in the National Health Service in England, alongside extensive private practice.

If your founders and teams are carrying a lot — talk to me.

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