Our Manifesto
We exercise, watch what we eat and get health checks to stay physically healthy. But our mental health? We often only pay real attention to it once things aren't going so well.
We believe it can be done differently.
Mental health deserves continuous attention. By regularly checking how you're really doing. By working on resilience, balance and mental fitness. And by recognising changes early, before they turn into complaints.
That vision starts with YourOptimalYou™: the fixed, scientifically based prevention programme of MentalCareDirect™. With periodic measurements, personal guidance and targeted support, we continuously keep employees' mental health in view.
But detection alone is not enough. That's why MentalCareDirect™ also makes the curative side accessible via YourWorkplacePsychologist: full primary mental healthcare by a licensed psychologist, without a waiting list. Prevention and treatment sit in one continuous line.
Core is the package for employees: YourOptimalYou™ prevention plus treatment. Family is the add-on for their household. That way everyone who needs it gets the right help directly — earlier, more purposefully and with more control.
Care that goes beyond work.
That's not a slogan. That's our conviction.
Our mission
The care system is completely stuck. Huge waiting times cause unnecessarily long-lasting psychological problems. That unnecessarily burdens people and costs businesses a fortune. We help SME entrepreneurs make mental complaints in their employees and households visible earlier, prevent them as much as possible and, if necessary, treat them directly. Accessible, professional and without waiting times.
Our vision
Mental health in the workplace needs to change. More preventive, more evidence-based, more human. And above all: directly available when needed — for the employee and for their family.
The management team
MentalCareDirect™ brings the YourOptimalYou™ prevention programme together with the full primary mental healthcare practice of YourWorkplacePsychologist. The team shown below is the management team: Nicki Mano, Amorena Labad and Alex Ermers. Behind them is a nationwide network of qualified psychologists, lifestyle coaches and HRV coaches. Together we provide nationwide coverage and guarantee no waiting lists — for SMEs and their families.
Co-Founder, CCO, Lead Clinician
Nicki is an independent licensed psychologist with a background in work and organisational psychology, child and youth psychology and cognitive behavioural therapy, and is Chief Clinical Officer of MentalCareDirect™ and is ultimately responsible for the substantive quality, professional standards and execution of mental healthcare. Nicki studied at Chiang Mai University (Thailand), VU Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen.
Co-Founder, COO, Head Coach
As Chief Operating Officer, Amorena Labad is ultimately responsible for daily operations and operational execution. She ensures that people, processes and systems work together efficiently and that strategy is actually implemented. Within MentalCareDirect™, Amorena is also the head of all coaches who guide participants in the area of lifestyle and in regulating their stress response, bringing them back into balance.
Initiator, CEO, Biofeedback Practitioner
Alex brings over 30 years of board-level experience and, as Chief Executive Officer, is ultimately responsible for strategy, direction and overall organisational performance. Alex connects mission, vision, commercial activity, operations and the management team, and represents the company externally. Through his training in neuro- and biofeedback he developed the conviction that people can preventively learn to regulate their stress system — one of the foundations of MentalCareDirect™.
Values
MentalCareDirect™ is not a stand-alone coaching programme, not a standard wellness platform, and not a purely reactive care solution either.
We combine what entrepreneurs and employees really need: the YourOptimalYou™ prevention programme, the curative care of YourWorkplacePsychologist, and rapid help for the household via Family — all within one coherent approach.
Direct help. For everyone who needs it.
Privacy and trust
Reporting to the employer is always anonymised. Employers see patterns and risks at group level — never personal medical or psychological data about individual employees.
