About Us

Bridie founded Better Lives in 2020 following 13 years of dedicated and outstanding service as a Police Officer across two different forces. The last 8 years of her policing career were based at Force Headquarters in the role of Force Advisor for Domestic Abuse and Stalking for Surrey Police. This role really fuelled Bridie's passion for the work being undertaken by so many within the DA sector and the pressing need for so much more work to be done in order to ensure safer, happier and better lives for individuals and families into the future. Working as the Force DA & Stalking Advisor allowed Bridie the opportunity to develop her skills, qualifications. training and understanding in so many aspects of early identification of DA and stalking behaviours, managing perpetrators, supporting victims/survivors and building strong evidential criminal cases.
Bridie was a Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) panel member for Surrey cases, on behalf of the Police, and has gained valuable experience of identifying many of the areas where improvement and training is required, in various organisations, in order to help prevent the large number of homicides committed by DA perpetrators.
Despite the love of her role within the Police, her team & organisation, Bridie took the brave decision to leave her much loved career in order to pursue what has become her passion and purpose; providing her skills and experience to a wider audience and being a more far reaching and dedicated participant in the ongoing, collective endeavour to end DA. Hence, Better Lives was born and Bridie began the rather scary, but incredibly fulfilling, task of setting up on her own!
Bridie now also works as a volunteer with a specialist DA charity and delivers pro bono work to various DA sector charities in the form of consulting and staff training. This not only benefits the charities and their beneficiaries, but allows Bridie to keep her knowledge and understanding of the battles faced by victims/survivors, support services and employers current, relevant and able to directly inform all Better Lives products and services.  Bridie takes immense pride in the work delivered at Better Lives and as such is committed to her own continued professional development; regularly attending/accessing training, events and completing learning/awareness courses (all of which detailed below and discussed in her blogs.) This demonstrates our commitment to guarantee that our clients receive services, advice and training which is up to date and based on the very latest data, research and experience.
Bridie is also an Associate trainer for leading DA charity SafeLives and an Associate trainer for AbuseFreeLife which ensures her knowledge and product range remains current and her relationships with colleagues and staff from the sector stays strong. This all provides for an assured quality of service and product from Better Lives and one on which your organisation can rely.