Our Team

We choose our team very carefully here at Mind and Body Walking. Everyone has a deep love for the outdoors and connecting with nature and is incredibly passionate about sharing that with you! They all have exemplary skills and experience to keep you safe but they’re also a down to earth group who enjoy ensuring you have a great time.

Katy Draper is an executive coach, serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over 30 years’ board level experience in organisations from blue chips to start ups.  She combines this with a passion for the outdoors and connecting with nature to support individuals and organisations maximise their potential, boost wellbeing, innovate and solve problems.

Katy loves hiking in the UK’s hills and mountains with her husband Stephen and has a long term personal goal to walk the Camino Frances and Pacific Crest Trail.

• ICF ACC qualified, accredited coach, trained with Barefoot – Post graduate Diploma in Business and Personal Coaching 
• HML, LL, NNAS – Provider, Tutor, Gold, Silver, Bronze  
• An experienced trail walker and walk leader. 
• Leads walks for HF, Mind over Mountains and The Ramblers. 
• DofE Assessor and Supervisor at Bronze and Silver Levels 
• Nordic Walking Instructor 
• Registered General Nurse, Outdoor First Aid Level 3
• Enhanced DBS 

Dr David Fong is a principal clinical psychologist, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, an accredited CBT therapist, an EMCC accredited coach and qualified Hill and Moorland Leader. He worked in the NHS for 17 years, set up the first Dialectical Behaviour Therapy service for under 18’s in Sheffield and also spent 7 years working as an expert witness.

 He fell in love with green spaces after the Peak District let him wander around its hills and valleys rehabilitating a reconstructed right knee some 14 years ago. He hiked up a number of 4000 metre plus mountains over the next decade. He has been fascinated by the psychological and physical benefits of walking in green spaces since then, and started taking therapy and coaching outdoors since the pandemic lockdown. He has led wellbeing walks and retreats for the charity Mind Over Mountains since 2022, as well as providing bespoke 1-1 and small group packages that seek to integrate therapeutic and coaching models with the emergent evidence base on the benefits of nature connection.

David’s Private Psychotherapy Practice can be reached here