Louise instigated the first World Hearing Voices Day in 2006 because she wanted to see hearing voices networks across the world offer talks and events to raise awareness of non-medical thinking and approaches to hearing voices.

Louise Pembroke is a survivor activist with first hand experience of hearing voices and self-harm. She has worked in local and national user/survivor groups over the last 20 years. She is a former chair of Survivor's Speak Out, and the founder and former chair of National Self Harm Network.

Her first book, ‘Self-Harm: Perspectives from Personal Experience’ [Survivor’s Speak Out] was short listed for the 1994 Mind Book of the Year Award.

She is co-author of the ‘The Hurt Yourself Less Workbook’ [NSHN] which was the first self-management workbook by and for people who self-harm.

Louise organised the first national UK conference on self-harm with service users as the keynote speakers and spoke at the first conference of Dutch service users in Utretcht in 2000.

Louise organised the first harm-minimisation [for self-harm] conferences for service users in 1999 and the resulting book, ‘Cutting the Risk’ [NSHN] is the first book on harm-minimisation. She will be producing a new publication on this subject later this year.

In 2006, Louise organised the first harm-minimisation conference for health care workers [to be repeated later this year].

Louise is consulted by health and social care service providers, course tutors and students, writes for mental health journals and speaks to nursing, medical and psychology students.

She produced a contemporary dance DVD, Dedication to the Seven: Hearing Voices in Dance and accompanying booklet [Mind Publications] about her experiences of hearing voices, which was selected by the M1 Singapore Fringe festival 2006 and screened at the Royal College of Psychiatrists annual conference [2006]. It's Louise's dream to dance more with fellow service users/survivors, to help set up workshops for others to explore movement/dance.

Louise can also be seen in humorous video clips regarding voice hearing along with an aural recreation of her voices in the CD-ROM 'Electric Apple' [Mental Health Media]