The LBR Story

A young boy is talking to a female teacher. The boy appears worried and has a speech bubble with a brain inside it, suggesting he is talking about his brain or mental health. The teacher is smiling and has a name tag that says 'TEACHER'.

Mental health literacy, built for schools.

Most schools want to do better on student mental health. Few have a clear framework for how.

Wellbeing initiatives tend to live in posters, assemblies, and one-off training days. They rarely give staff a shared language, a clear escalation pathway, or the confidence to respond when a student is struggling in front of them.

We started Let's Be Real because we saw this gap from both sides of it.

How we got here.

Nick was a school principal in Frankfurt for eight years. Jacqueline was a parent at the school, a coach, and someone who'd been thinking about what real mental health support inside a school community could look like.

A conversation in Nick's office turned into a question worth answering: what would it take for a school to genuinely respond to mental health, not just talk about it?

The answer became Let's Be Real. We work with international schools across Europe to build the literacy, structures, and confidence that make mental health support part of how a school actually operates.

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What we do

Our work centres on Mental Health First Response, a three-tier programme that gives staff a shared framework for what to notice, how to hold a conversation, and when to lead a referral. It is practical, repeatable, and designed to outlast the people who first bring it into a school.

Alongside this, we support schools with parent engagement, staff development, and the harder strategic conversations about where wellbeing sits in a school's priorities.

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Why us?

Nick spent eight years inside school leadership, which means he understands what schools can and cannot absorb, and what gets dropped when calendars fill up. Jacqueline brings the coaching and family perspective that keeps the work grounded in real conversations, not frameworks for their own sake.

We are not a wellbeing brand. We are two people building something we think schools genuinely need.

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