About Us
We provide long-term counselling for trauma-survivors and supervision and training for those who work with them.
Who We Are
We are a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. As the first and originally only agency providing refugee trauma specialist support in the southwest, we were founded in Bristol in 2002 to ease the mental suffering of asylum seekers and refugees.
What We Do
We provide vital, free, long-term 1-1 and group psychotherapy and counselling to people fleeing torture, oppression and war. We also hold an essential and unique proactive role in supporting the refugee sector's mental health and wellbeing. We provide supervision and training on a large range of trauma-related topics to the staff and volunteers of charities, local authorities, law centres, housing associations and companies.
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Meet the Team
We are a small, friendly team with a huge amount of experience.
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Katie Hope
BA (Hons), PG Dip HIC
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
I’m passionate about supporting the mental health of people fleeing persecution and war and those who work with them. I started my career in various roles in charities and I qualified as a counsellor and supervisor in the last decade.
I have 30 years' management experience in the charity sector, mainly with refugee organisations. I have a BA Hons in Media and Cultural Studies, a post-graduate diploma in humanistic and integrative counselling, and a post-graduate diploma in supervision.
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Katherine Cox
PhD, BACP Accred
CLINICAL DIRECTOR
I am an integrative psychotherapist and supervisor with experience and interest in working with communities experiencing multiple and intersectional oppression. I have spent most of my professional life in the voluntary sector and am committed to the wellbeing of both service users and those who work to support them.
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Loran Lincoln
BA, Journalism
ADMINISTRATOR
I am an experienced administrator and I have worked with a variety of non-profit organisations from animal charities to young carers. I find working with charities hugely rewarding.
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Our Training
Training sessions are available in person or online as part of our nationally available online programme. We can also offer all the training below or create training for your own needs bespoke for your team.