Trauma & Recovery
Complex childhood trauma, trauma-informed practice, attachment, emotional responses and recovery.
TV · Radio · Podcasts · Press · Panels
Book Miranda Arieh—award-winning motivational speaker, mental health educator, lived-experience expert, singer-songwriter and founder of HEROES Programme—for compelling, warm and refreshingly honest media conversations.
BBC Radio Leeds
For Mental Health Awareness Week in May 2023, Miranda was invited by BBC Radio Leeds to create and host a dedicated mental health special.
The programme brought together honest conversation, lived experience and practical insight—demonstrating Miranda’s ability to hold emotionally complex subjects with warmth, clarity and humanity.
Miranda also created and presented Top 5 Tips for Good Mental Health for the BBC’s Happy Heads project. These credits form part of her wider experience as a trusted guest and contributor across television, radio, podcasts, documentaries, journalism, panel discussions and specially commissioned programmes.
Mental Health Awareness Week special · 18 May 2023
Insight with humanity
Miranda combines professional knowledge with lived experience in a way that is emotionally intelligent, accessible and never buried beneath jargon. Her perspective spans psychiatric hospitalisation at 14, the creation of a trauma-informed programme delivered through NHS services, and a life in music and creativity.
Across television, press and live events
Areas for interview and commentary
Miranda can contribute personal insight, informed commentary and an engaging lived-experience perspective across television, radio, podcasts, journalism and live panels.
Complex childhood trauma, trauma-informed practice, attachment, emotional responses and recovery.
Mental ill-health, psychiatric services, stigma, identity, self-compassion and meaningful change.
Late-identified autism and ADHD, masking, identity and the intersection with trauma and mental health.
Mental health systems, lived-experience leadership, service improvement and bringing trauma-informed approaches into organisations.
Songwriting as survival, creative expression, emotional transformation and the story behind GROWN.
Miranda’s original four-step self-relating method for moments of stress or triggering—supporting a kinder internal conversation, nervous-system regulation and connection with younger parts of ourselves.
Featured podcast · Episode 311
Miranda joins Kate Moryoussef for a candid conversation about ADHD, autism, trauma, emotional regulation, identity and finding your true self.
Selected press
Recent and notable stories exploring Miranda’s journey, work and the meeting point between mental health, lived experience and music.
The Yorkshire Post · Full-page feature · 11 August 2026
The Yorkshire Post devoted a full page to Miranda’s journey: finding solace in songwriting on a one-string guitar during psychiatric hospitalisation, creating HEROES with the NHS, and launching GROWN.
Yorkshire Evening Post · August 2026
The story of music, survival and the experiences that shaped Miranda’s work across mental health and performance.
Read in the Yorkshire Evening Post →
Yorkshire Evening Post · Front page
Coverage of Miranda’s mental health recovery and the creation of a new trauma-informed NHS service.
Read the feature →
Yorkshire Evening Post · Video
Miranda offers accessible, compassionate guidance on comparison, money, boundaries, self-forgiveness and reaching out.
Watch the feature →“A truly unique, engaging and life-affirming experience.”
Louder Than War · Review of GROWN, 2026
Ways to book Miranda
From a focused five-minute contribution to a long-form conversation, Miranda brings presence, clarity and humanity to the room.
Broadcast and speaking experience
Miranda has appeared across BBC television and radio, ITV and Channel 4, contributed to regional and national press, and chaired, hosted and joined live panels in the UK and Europe. She has also taught at Leeds Beckett University and delivered trauma-informed practice training to more than 4,000 professionals. Her debut GROWN show at Seven Arts Leeds and her SEED talk on intergenerational trauma at The Wardrobe both sold out.
Media enquiries
Tell Miranda about your programme, publication, podcast, panel or event—and the perspective you need.
Miranda would love to join you at your next event. Please get in touch with the team, and let’s make it happen.