​" We have had a wonderful experience working with Sofie and were able to provide incredible mental health support for our models. Sofie has a deep understanding of mental health issues, and she has provided practical advice to our models. With her expertise and kindness, our models have had access to quality mental health care in a safe and supportive setting."
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- NEXT Models Management
About My Services
Mental Health and Fashion
​My services are focused on the mental wellbeing of models and other professionals in the industry, by offering a safe space to listen and discuss whatever may be relevant for the individual. The fashion industry can be challenging and I aim to find a way for people, models especially, to balance high pressure work and their mental wellbeing. I aim to offer the support in a way which may suit each person individually, but also collectively through workshops and by collaborating with model agencies.
Sofie Hemmet
Model and Mental Health Worker
Publications
Publications for Fashionispsychology.co.uk
Recognising Anxiety In The Fashion Industry
By Sofie Hemmet June 7, 2021
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How many times have you been running around at work trying to meet a tight deadline and suddenly noticed your heart pumping faster, your head hurting, you are perhaps even feeling some stinging in your chest? How many times have you then decided to pop a couple of paracetamols, ignore it, and continue as is? Sound familiar? It sounds like fashion to me.
Modelling – What Kind Of Game Is That?
By Sofie Hemmet June 28, 2021
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What is it like to be a model? Do you get free stuff? Have you met anyone famous? Are you allowed to eat that?
Numerous questions about what it is like to be a model and what the lifestyle entails, have been thrown my way over the last seven years. Honestly, I never really know what to say or at least I struggle to articulate it in a way that does the job – and your efforts made within the job – justice. No matter how many times I feel like I finally understand what to expect and how to explain modelling, life always seems to send me back a note saying, ‘try again’. Try again to define the life of a model.
Opin: It Is Lonely At The Top… And In The Middle… And At The Bottom…
By Sofie Hemmet October 18, 2021,
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‘People are afraid of being alone because they are hesitant to rely on themselves for happiness, but there is no escaping one’s self.’
Thomas Dumm is a professor of political science, and wow, how – true – is – that? There is something about that sentence which resonates with my own and others’ experience of modelling, which has included feelings of solitude and loneliness. How is it possible to get comfortable being yourself and being on your own, when your success and happiness within your work is depending on other people’s opinion and perception of you?
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