About Us

Our world deserves happier, healthier, and more productive people.

To transform culture and empower people to take control of their mental health and live more fulfilled lives. We take pride in lifting away the stigma, lowering counselling costs and providing increased access for all Filipinos and their families nationwide.

How Mind You Started

Back in 2018 the mental health bill became the catalyst for bringing together 5 passionate individuals both with Filipino and international backgrounds to create a platform that would make mental health more accessible and more affordable in the Philippines. Our founders each have their own personal experiences when it comes to mental health, but the one thing that they shared was their drive to establish a support mechanism for the mental health bill, and that kickstarted the idea of Mind You.

At Mind You its aim is to provide accessible and affordable psychological support for large working communities and individuals from anywhere at any time in the Philippines.

Our Purpose

The founders of Mind You identified the significant gap in the state of mental health care in Asia, particularly in the Philippines. With the introduction of the Mental Health Act in 2018, Mind You recognized the opportunity to improve affordability and access to mental healthcare for all Filipinos.

Our Mission

Through heartfelt education, technology and world class counselling, we can positively change the trend of mental health, focusing on prevention vs cure. We use rapid feedback systems and adopt best international practices to serve our local cultures.

Our Vision

To help 1 million people overcome stress, anxiety and depression with the best mental health care by 2025.

Our Values

Feel Out Loud

As humans, we all have underlying emotions that dictate our decisions and actions. Help our community to understand the ‘why’ behind what we do by proudly showing the emotions that drive you, because that is what makes us human.

Attention to the Details

Playing the game of life at the highest level, means that everything we do and produce must be carefully planned and executed. Mind You takes pride in the smallest of details to create extraordinary results.

Wow Experience

No longer are we judged against our competitors. We are compared to the best companies and customer experiences in the world. We endeavour to have our customers, and our users, to walk away from every interaction with Mind You saying “Wow.”

Flexibility

Our team and partners are human beings, and all have their own lives that come with opportunities and challenges. To work towards our goals harmoniously, we are flexible in the way we achieve the outcomes of the organisation.

Unwavering Honesty

Transparency is integral to a high impact team, to create extraordinary results for all members of our community. Always being respectfully honest so that bureaucracy does not inhibit the positive impact we can make on this world.

Fail Fast

If we never fail, we will never learn. To fail fast is to allow ourselves to push the boundaries of what can be achieved, and to learn by the mistakes of ourselves and the people around us. We then learn from those failures and ensure through process and communication they are never repeated. In the words of Larry Smith, fail fast, fail often, fail forward.

B.R.A.V.I.N.G.

Mind You embraces Brené Brown’s acronym to create more trust within Mind You, for our customers, and partners. It stands for establishing strong Boundaries; being Reliable and Accountable; having a Vault of knowledge; exercising Integrity; practicing Non-judgement and making Generous assumptions towards others.

Our Leadership Team

Yuri Marshall

Chief Executive Officer

Yuri is the driver of our mission in transforming the landscape of mental health and raising minimum standards across the mental health industry. Yuri, who was originally born in Cebu with parents from Mindanao, grew up in Papua New Guinea and shaped a successful entrepreneurial career in Australia by leading one of Queensland’s most established immigration legal firms for more than 18 years. Yuri’s passion for mental health emerged after his bout with suicide in 2019. As a suicide survivor, he now shares the same aim as Mind You, to destigmatise mental health, increase access to quality therapy nationwide, and to reduce costs for sessions so that more people can access affordable mental healthcare.

Miguel Valdez

Vice President

Miguel Ronaldo O. Valdez is a Psychologist by trade but an entrepreneur at heart. Driven to reform his industry, he focuses on developing synergistic and practical approaches for psychology in the business context. He is the President and CEO of Vanguard Assessments, an assessment and consultancy firm with 30 years of experience, specializing in talent selection and psychological evaluation of employees.

Daimian Parkes

Chief Technology Officer

Daimian has a background as the Senior Information & Technology Officer for Queensland Health in Australia. He takes pride in his wealth of experience in healthtech, as well as data management, compliance and protection. Daimian’s depth of knowledge and expertise in healthcare and information systems ensures that Mind You will continue to be an industry leader in years to come.

Mark Richard Pagal

Head of Product

Mark, a Filipino-Canadian whose parents are from Cagayan Valley and La Union, has a vast proficiency in user experience and interface design, specifically in the field of medical technology. He has designed and built systems for some of the world's leading healthcare companies. Mark’s key motivator is to design and develop products which will have a direct impact on solving global issues.

Christina Sang

Chief Strategy and Wellness Officer

With a remarkable 14-year background in Public Relations and Business Development across Europe and the Middle East, the CEO and Founder of Wellnest Collective and the visionary behind the You Wellbeing Festival is a passionate advocate for holistic well-being and nurturing connections. Their journey has led to the creation of Wellnest Collective and the groundbreaking You Wellbeing Festival, where individuals are empowered to prioritize their health and happiness. Committed to driving positive change, they inspire others to lead fulfilling lives.

Rea Celine Villa

Senior Psychologist

Rea is responsible for designing and creating Mental Health programs, internal processes and policies for the company and its clients. She is also responsible for conducting preventative interventions for Mind You clients through webinars, workshops and training. Rea is also in charge of discussing employee mental health check results, psychometric reports and provides recommendations to its client organizations as we take a preventative approach to their mental health care. She is co-author of the first ever Filipino Youth Depression scale which serves as an initial self-assessment tool that measures individual depression tendencies. In addition her vast experience as Psychology professor and chief Psychologist at Pasig City General Hospital where she handles cases related to gender-based violence, trauma, abuse, depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions has made her a valuable asset and phenomenal educator in the mental health landscape of the Philippines.

Dan Villafuerte

Senior Psychologist - Internal Affairs

Dan is the Internal Senior Psychologist of Mind You. It is his responsibility to ensure that Mind You Psychologists are not only offering quality care to clients, but also have the opportunity to grow in the field of psychology and further their professional development. He firmly believes in and strives for Mind You's goal to be able to provide quality mental health care to Filipinos of all walks of life, especially through the furthering of psychology as a profession in the Philippines.

Bridget Teo

Operations Manager

Bridget is the Operations Manager at Mind You. She is in charge of optimizing the relationship between product maintenance and development to the needs of clients. Bridget studied Medical Science and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney. With a background of working in laboratory and medical settings she is skilled in processes, resource management and implementation which serves to improve the efficiency between internal and external services of Mind You. From the medical field to mental health, her passion and goal remains the same: to improve the human experience, especially for Filipinos who deserve better.

Our Science Advisory Board

Gisa Paredes

Health Programs Director

With a decade of experience in maritime mental health, this licensed psychologist and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at WellatSea is deeply committed to the well-being of maritime professionals. Their tireless efforts have led to significant advancements in the industry's mental health landscape, and they have a profound understanding of the unique challenges faced by seafarers and those working at sea. They've been instrumental in developing innovative solutions to promote psychological wellness and resilience, all in pursuit of creating a healthier and more supportive environment for maritime workers to thrive personally and professionally while at sea.

Anthony Williams

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Antony Williams BSc, PGCE, MA, MSc, EdD, is a Director Doctor at the University of Sheffield, where he has been a professor for over 10 years. Dr. Williams' research interests are focused on areas of critical psychology and psychoanalytic concepts and theory. To date, his research has focused on contributing to the concept of critical educational psychology. His other areas of interest include group dynamics, conceptions of mental health and emotional wellbeing, case study research and the use of reflexive and interpretative research methods.

Ma. Angeles Guanzon-Lapeña, MA

Advisory Board Member

Ms. Maria Angeles Lapeña is the Chief Technical Adviser of Global Resources for Assessment, Curriculum, and Evaluation (GRACE). She is a retired faculty member of the De La Salle University, where she chaired the Psychology Department (1994-1996) and the Behavioral Sciences Department (1986-1990). Before teaching at DLSU, she was connected with the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and also taught at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines.

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