We are a tiny community interest company trying to do big things.  We are run by volunteers, wellness professionals and trauma-informed specialists that want to give back in their spare time. Our aim is to relieve any adult in need, by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage living within a 20km radius of Ripon, North Yorkshire; through formal or informal counselling, therapy or other support (funding dependent).

We are passionate about improving mental, physical & emotional wellness along with trauma care. 

We bring:

• Over 50 cumulative years of experience from trauma-informed keynote speakers and trainers
• Grass roots outreach experience from our school wellness hubs
• Qualitative and quantitative data in this field
• Our experience of sitting on the commissioning board for Complex Emotional Needs in NY
• Up to date research in this field
• A wide selection of reference material and books on adverse childhood experiences and trauma
• Pilot schemes in schools around childhood adversity and trauma
• Evidence based experience around adverse childhood experiences, trauma and public health
• Community consultation data
• Our experience working with stakeholders and being external trainers for the NHS
• Our experience with clinical supervision in this area
• Accredited trauma-informed training
• Primary care approval to support childhood adversity and trauma 

There is only one pathway to access our services:

If you are over 18 and live within a 20km radius of Ripon, North Yorkshire you can access an free assessment by completing a full self-referral on our contact page. Therapy options are:

1. Twenty free counselling sessions with one of our university student placement counsellors

2. Subsidised therapy with one of our experienced therapists £45 per session – evidence of benefits will discount this cost

Adult Services:

• Psychotherapy, Eye-movement De-Sensitisation & Re-Processing (EMDR)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
• Dialectal Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
• Counselling/Talking Therapy
• The Rewind Technique 
• Clinical Hypnotherapy 
• Men’s Social Group Ripon
• Women’s Circle Ripon 
• Trauma, Tension and  Release Therapy – Harrogate
• CMA Accredited Psychological Trauma-informed diploma
• Trauma-informed workshops
• Student Counselling Placements
• Community Wellness Hubs in schools for parents and carers
• Fundraising Well-being events such as Trauma-informed Yoga, Meditation, Sound Healing and Wild Swimming

We are pleased to say that we are an approved organisation working in conjunction with Living Well North Yorkshire who are the contracted provider for the four Primary Care Networks across Harrogate and Rural District to deliver a social prescribing service across seventeen GP Practices. Social prescribing (also known as community referral) allows GPs, nurses and other healthcare workers to signpost patients to support outside of health services, through community organisations, local support groups and holistic hubs. Social prescribing can be accessed through self-referral, mental health and social care services, pharmacists and hospitals.

Primary Care Networks help integrate primary care with secondary and community services, and bridge a gap between general practice and emerging Integrated Care Systems. GP practices are working together with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas in groups of practices known as primary care networks (PCNs). PCNs build on existing primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home. Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve.

Please signpost individuals to our contact page.

Our Blended Approach – Neurosequential Theory (Dr. Bruce Perry)

• Top down approach or cognitive (the mind) educating people about the mind and body, the imprint of trauma and interacting memory into the rational brain by talking therapies and hypnotherapy
• Bottom up approach or somatic (the body) encouraging people to re-connect with their bodies, to trust others and build relationships, to spend time in nature, sensory activities,  rhythmic and regular self-regulation 
• To invite people who have used the centre to become part of a community consultation group
• To remove barriers to recovery

How do we work?

We are passionate about relieving anyone over 18 in need, by assessment, then offering advice, signposting, private therapy, therapeutic activities and education where funding permits.