Meet Our Author
Meet Carla. Carla is not only the director, founder, and trustee of The Lotus Mental Health, but she is also an author of 19 books and counting!
Carla graduated from university in 2016, with a degree in Applied Psychology Counselling and Health, and since then has dedicated her time to building a charity, and writing mental health books.
Why did Carla start writing books?
After Carla graduated from university, she set out to complete her masters degree, however, a small seemingly unimportant fall one day, led to a week long hospital stay and months spent building back up her strength. Due to the rehabilitation timescale, Carla had to give up studying for her masters degree, and change the direction of her future.
One day, while cleaning the house, she started to rearrange her children's bookshelves. As she was organising the books, she found herself thinking back to her own bookshelves as a child. Carla is an avid reader, and always has been, and for a time when she was younger, it was a dream of hers to write her own book. It was in this moment that she decided that was exactly what she was going to do - write a book. But what about? And then it hit her - her passions of mental health and reading came together, and the first series of books was born.
Carla thoroughly enjoys writing books, and so she spends much of her time writing, and her aim is to release as many mental health books as she can, until she believes that there is a book available for every age, covering as many different mental health struggles as she can write about.