Author: Teresa Richards

Teresa Richards is a trainee integrative psychotherapist, accredited life coach, and former project manager. She writes about perfectionism, productivity, wellbeing, and values-based living, drawing on psychotherapy training, research, and lived experience.As founder of The Valued Life, Teresa explores how identity, culture, and social context shape Black British people's relationship with achievement and success. Through reflective essays, she helps readers understand the forces shaping how they work, achieve, and define a fulfilling life, and consider more intentional ways of living beyond conventional ideas of success.