Sakina Ballard

Sakina is a Trustee at MMHA and first joined 2017 as a Champion. Having been redirected from her previous career as an actress due to her own lived experience during the perinatal period, she now works clinically and strategically in Perinatal Mental Health at CNWL NHS Trust and her own private practice as a therapist and coach. 

She is passionate about co-production, belonging and inclusion, grass-roots change and particularly how incorporating lived experience stories into institutions and structures can bridge gaps in experience and outcomes, for both systems and individual experiences.   

She is also a Director at Make Birth Better and a mum to two lovely young humans. 

Sakina Ballard