Rebecca Day Therapist and Founder, Film In Mind

Rebecca Day is a BACP registered psychotherapist & clinical supervisor and, previously, a
documentary producer. She created Film In Mind in 2018 when she saw a very real need to
address the collective mental health of the documentary world she was working in. For her, being
able to combine her two passions in this way feels like such a privilege. Her filmmaking career
began with the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) in 2008, where she developed and produced
several shorts and feature docs and worked on innovative impact and audience engagement
campaigns. She was drawn to the challenging and emotive subject matter and became curious
about what psychological support could look like for documentary teams and participants.
Training as a person-centred therapist was a life-changing journey. She learnt to prioritise her
own mental health so that she could offer the strength and support that her clients needed. It
quickly became clear that the tools she was given as a therapist could be invaluable resources for
the documentary community and so Film In Mind was born.

Since establishing Film In Mind, she has seen many filmmaking clients for personal therapy, she
has developed a model of supervision to support filmmakers professional work, she has spoken
at dozens of film festivals and during film labs on the issue of mental health in filmmaking,
developed several training initiatives for filmmakers around this issue and launched a research
project called DocuMentality with her partners, Malikkah Rollins & the D-Word.
When working with clients, either through training, individual therapy or consultation, she draws
on her insight from both industries to create a safe and open environment that enables us to look
at new ways of working – one that accepts the vulnerable spaces we find ourselves in.