Resources
If you or someone you know is looking for support and resources, I have compiled the following list of individuals and organisations to help.
Carolyn Spring’s website offers insightful information in plain English about trauma, dissociation, and the path to recovery.
Hearing Voices, raise awareness about diverse voices and visions while creating safe and empowering spaces, they run groups and workshops for people who voices.
If you’re in need of in-patient treatment and psychological support, Khiron Trauma Clinics provide private and compassionate care trauma informed care
Organisations like Mosac, Rights of Women, and The Survivors Trust, are dedicated to providing specialised assistance to those impacted by trauma, abuse, and violence.
Resource Links
- ACT – Accessible Counselling and Therapy – A Bromley based community counselling service offering lower fee medium and short term therapy with trainee counsellors and psychologists.
- Andy Man’s Club – Offers Monday night group peer support for men in many cities across England.
- Carolyn Spring | Trauma recovery: An individual with personal experience shares information on trauma, dissociation, and the journey towards recovery.
- Change Grow Live – Drug and Alcohol support services serving Bromley and surrounding areas.
- Hearing Voices: Raises awareness about diverse voice experiences, visions, and similar phenomena, while advocating for respectful spaces and challenging oppressive practices.
- Intervoice: Supports the International Hearing Voices Movement, fostering connections between people and ideas, and promoting a rights-based and hopeful approach to voice hearing, visions, and related experiences.
- Khiron Trauma Clinics: Private in-patient treatment center addressing the underlying effects of trauma, providing emotional and psychological support for trauma, stress, and breakdown.
- LGBT Foundation: A national charity delivering advice, support, and information services tailored to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
- Mairsinn – a charity offering confidential support service to anyone who has experienced ritual or ritualised abuse, or who has experienced childhood trauma resulting in a dissociative condition.
- Mens Shed Movement – Improving wellbeing, reducing loneliness and combatting social isolation through meeting in DIY settings encourage people to come together to make, repair and repurpose, supporting projects in their local communities
- Mosac: Provides support to non-abusing parents and caregivers whose children have experienced sexual abuse.
- Rights of Women: Empowering women by offering legal assistance and guidance.
- Ritual Abuse Network Scotland: Offers confidential support and information specifically for survivors of ritual abuse.
- Samaritans: Ensures there is always someone available to support individuals in need of emotional assistance.
- STOPSO: Assists victims of sexual abuse and works with individuals at risk of harmful sexual behavior to prevent further harm and reduce the number of victims.
- The Survivors Trust: Offers a free, national helpline delivering information, advice, and emotional support to all survivors of rape, sexual abuse, violence, and childhood sexual abuse.
- Unreal: Unreal extends a helping hand to individuals who have personally experienced Depersonalisation and Derealisation, as well as their caregivers and families. Their mission is to increase understanding and knowledge about Depersonalisation and Derealisation, offer support, encourage active participation, and provide valuable resources. They strive to keep everyone informed with the latest information, connect them with relevant support services, foster a network of individuals who share similar experiences, and celebrate personal achievements along the journey. Unreal offer peer support groups as well as general resources.
- Women’s and Girl’s Network: A free service run by women in London, offering support to women affected by all forms of violence and abuse.