Body & Soul is an innovative charity that uses a comprehensive, community-based and trauma informed approach to address the life-threatening effects of childhood adversity in people of all ages.

Our approach is evidence based and informs all that we do. We take a systemic and humanistic approach that is collaborative and solution focused. Through building members’ protective factors we promote and develop resiliency, interrupt latent vulnerability and transform lives.

The therapeutic relationship with Body & Soul starts as soon as someone registers. It is underpinned by two very robust and well-understood clinical ideas:

• Increasing connection – we know isolation heightens almost all individual difficulties, so we invite members into a supportive community of people who live with similar challenges
• A trauma-informed environment – our programmes offer a variety and choice, run from a building designed to be as calm and soothing as possible, full of staff and volunteers trained in the multiple complex effects of trauma and adversity, whose primary role is to understand each persons own unique experiences.

Our programmes are generally divided by age (Children, Teens, Adults) so there is the best opportunity to connect with members with similar concerns and challenges. Each programme is carefully designed and based on research, the knowledge and experience of the programme lead, expert advice and always in collaboration with members.