What Toolbox Education does

Toolbox Education is an Australian preventative mental health education provider headquartered in St Kilda, Victoria, founded in 2021. The company delivers evidence-based, psychology-grounded workshop programs to over 200 primary and secondary schools across Australia, targeting students, school staff, and parents as a "whole school" intervention. Its offerings are built on four established therapeutic modalities — Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Compassion Focused Therapy — operationalized into six secondary-school modules (Emotion Regulation, Thinking Traps, Mental Movies, Dealing with Conflict, Inner Critic, and Overcoming Procrastination) and age-appropriate primary-school content. The Toolbox Education Program has been independently studied and endorsed as evidence-informed by SEED and Deakin University.

The company operates a sales-led go-to-market, with schools booking programs through a "Book a Free Call" call-to-action on its website. Delivery is on-site at schools, comprising 50-minute interactive workshops, term-long follow-up activities integrated into pastoral care, and optional staff and parent workshop add-ons. Pricing is custom and not publicly disclosed; contracts run on multi-year bases. The company has no mobile app, no public API, and no disclosed digital product layer; delivery is human-facilitator-led, relying on young, highly trained psychology student facilitators for student sessions and clinical psychologists for staff and parent sessions.

Toolbox Education is privately held, with 11–50 employees, no disclosed external funding, and no parent company. The Toolbox brand has expanded beyond schools through two related sub-brands: Toolbox Clinic (a clinical mental health service at 331 Centre Road, Bentleigh) and Toolbox Workplace (a workplace mental health service), indicating a broader mental health platform strategy. Co-founders Ben and David lead the organization; named institutional customers include Wesley College, Strathcona Girls Grammar, Kilvington Grammar, Brighton Secondary College, and Christway Christian College, among others.

Name

Toolbox Education

Legal name

Toolbox Education

Website

https://toolboxeducation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Toolbox Education is an Australian mental health education provider that delivers evidence-based, psychology-grounded workshops to over 200 primary and secondary schools, targeting students, staff, and parents with programs built on CBT, DBT, ACT, and Compassion Focused Therapy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

School Mental Health Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (6117), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Training Delivery Services (Onsite/Virtual Instruction, Workshops, Coaching) (BPAEANAN)

Keywords

• School mental health programs
• Student wellbeing workshops
• Evidence-based psychology education
• CBT school workshops
• Teacher staff training

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourne

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. School Workshop Programs: Schools book workshop programs for students, with optional staff and parent workshop add-ons. Programs include a 50-minute interactive workshop, follow-up activities for the term, and optional add-on sessions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Toolbox Education delivers evidence-based mental health workshops to primary and secondary schools across Australia. Programs are run on-site at schools by young, highly trained psychology student facilitators (for student sessions) and qualified psychologists (for staff and parent sessions), with follow-up lesson plans developed by teachers and clinical psychologists. Content incorporates CBT, DBT, ACT, and Compassion Focused Therapy tools adapted with age-appropriate metaphors for students.

Product overview

Toolbox Education offers a suite of mental health education programs for schools comprising three main offerings: Student Workshops (delivered by young, highly trained psychology students), Staff and Parent Programs (facilitated by qualified psychologists), and Follow-up Activities (lesson plans developed by teachers and clinical psychologists). The programs incorporate evidence-based psychological tools from CBT, DBT, ACT, and Compassion Focused Therapy. Secondary School programs include six specific workshop modules: Emotion Regulation, Thinking Traps, Mental Movies, Dealing with Conflict, Inner Critic, and Overcoming Procrastination. Programs are endorsed as evidence-informed by Deakin University.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Toolbox Clinic: A separate mental health clinic service operated by the Toolbox organization at 331 Centre Road, Bentleigh 3204
• Toolbox Workplace

Products and services

• Student Workshops Fun, engaging, and relatable student programs run by young facilitators who equip students with psychology's best evidence-based tools for mental health. Delivered as 50-minute interactive workshops in class-size groups at schools.
• Staff and Parent Programs Practical staff and parent workshops facilitated by psychologists employing a whole school approach towards better mental health. These programs help educators and parents reinforce evidence-based mental health strategies with students in the classroom and at home.
• Follow-up Activities Ongoing term-long lesson plans developed by teachers and clinical psychologists to scaffold workshop learning and ensure tools remain accessible to students across the term.
• Emotion Regulation Workshop Workshop module teaching students to let emotions out in healthy and constructive ways using DBT tools to calm themselves before things spill over.
• Thinking Traps Workshop Workshop module helping students challenge and reframe unhelpful thoughts that lead to anxiety, school refusal, self-doubt or disengagement using CBT.
• Mental Movies Workshop Workshop module teaching students to spot unhelpful narratives and learn how to rewrite them using ACT strategies to help disconnect from movies so they don't have as big an impact.
• Dealing with Conflict Workshop Workshop module teaching students how to effectively manage conflict using CBT strategies to resolve it in a way that meets everyone's needs.
• Inner Critic Workshop Workshop module teaching students how to be more compassionate towards themselves using Compassion Focused Therapy to notice and challenge self-critical thoughts.
• Overcoming Procrastination Workshop Workshop module teaching practical CBT-based strategies to limit procrastination and re-focus by removing obstacles in the way of task completion.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students develop practical mental health skills including emotional regulation, cognitive restructuring, and self-compassion techniques
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SEED and Deakin UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for program validation. The Toolbox Education Program was studied and endorsed as an evidence-informed program through research published in Deakin University's open access repository (dro.deakin.edu.au).

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• ReachOut Australia: Australia's leading digital youth mental-health platform providing school-facing resources and tools; comparable in audience and content area but operates at national scale primarily through digital channels rather than paid workshops.
• Headspace: Australia's national youth mental-health foundation; offers school-facing resources and programs targeting the same adolescent demographic as Toolbox, but as a government-funded incumbent with a much broader service portfolio.
• Elevate Education: Larger, established Australian provider of in-school student-skills and wellbeing workshops for primary and secondary schools; overlaps with Toolbox on the school-workshop delivery model but operates across a broader portfolio including study skills and leadership.
• Beyond Blue: Major Australian mental-health organisation providing school-based programs and resources targeting young people; comparable audience and evidence-based positioning, but with national scale and government funding Toolbox does not have.

Direct peers

• Open Parachute: School-based mental-wellness program that delivers evidence-based modules to K–12 students, similar to Toolbox in module-based content, school delivery model, and evidence-based positioning.
• Smiling Mind: Australian provider of mindfulness and mental-wellbeing programs directly into schools, very comparable to Toolbox Education in target customer (K–12), content modality (evidence-based digital/live programs), and Australian geography.
• Brave Education: Australian school-based mental-health education provider that delivers in-person workshops and programs to students and staff, closely matching Toolbox Education's workshop model, school channel, and therapeutic approach.
• Bite Back: Australian teen mental-health initiative (affiliated with the Black Dog Institute) delivering school-based wellbeing content, sharing Toolbox's teen focus, evidence-based content library, and Australian school channel.

Others

• Berry Street: Large Australian child-and-family services organisation that runs school wellbeing and trauma-informed education programs; adjacent rather than direct competition, but operates in the same school-mental-health ecosystem and procurement channels.

Emerging players

• SchoolTV: Australian school-wellbeing platform focused on parent engagement and school-wide mental-health communications, addressing the same 'whole-school' audience as Toolbox but with a content/communications model rather than live workshop delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/toolbox.education
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/toolbox-education

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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