Effective Care, Offered with Heart.

Life Beyond supports displaced communities living with HIV, providing a safe, stable, and culturally attuned space for healing and empowerment. Our approach is grounded in a trauma-engaged, intentional therapeutic community model, offering holistic care that integrates therapy, advocacy and peer-led support. By addressing immediate needs and long-term wellbeing, we help individuals rebuild agency, resilience and connection, creating pathways to thrive despite systemic barriers.

Body & Soul's Adoption and Special Guardianship programme offers therapeutic group support to strengthen the whole family. Grounded in evidence-based approaches, including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, together we address the complex emotional and relational challenges of adoption and special guardianship. We support the whole family to process trauma, build resilience, and develop practical skills for healthier, connected family relationships.

Launched in 2019 in response to COVID-19, BRAVE addresses the often intense mental health challenges faced by NHS and frontline staff, including secondary trauma and ongoing stress. Grounded in evidence-based therapies, the programme equips individuals to manage personal difficulties while maintaining professional resilience in high-pressure environments. Through tailored group or one-to-one sessions, BRAVE adapts to the evolving demands of each individual’s work and personal life, strengthening wellbeing and taking care of the people who care for us all

At Body & Soul, our Volunteer and Internship Programme offers more than experience, it’s a chance to make a real, lasting difference. Work alongside expert teams, gain hands-on learning in trauma-engaged care, suicide prevention and community-led support while contributing to a movement that transforms lives. Roles are tailored to your skills, with ongoing training and a collaborative, supportive environment where your ideas can thrive. From outreach and counselling to research, fundraising, and admin, there’s a meaningful way for everyone to make an impact.

Our therapeutic placements offer trainees a unique opportunity to develop as practitioners within a trauma-informed, decolonised, community-centred setting. Over a minimum six-month period, students work with approximately three community members weekly, gaining experience addressing issues rooted in trauma, adverse childhood experiences and suicidality.

Placements support both professional and personal growth, providing mentorship, reflective practice and hands-on learning, ensuring each trainee’s journey is supported alongside the communities they serve.

Our Reflective Practice programme offering provides a safe, inclusive space for professionals to process the personal and relational impact of their work and explore experiences of secondary trauma. We recognise that wellbeing is shaped not only by individual effort but also by the environments, systems, and communities in which we work. Through regular sessions, we cultivate self-compassion, peer support and collective reflection, reinforcing healthy boundaries and sustainable practices that honour both personal and community resilience.

Body & Soul offers professional learning and development opportunities designed to equip individuals and organisations with the skills to respond to complex mental health and suicide-related challenges through an equitable, justice-centred lens. From one-off seminars and experiential learning sessions to immersive three-day Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) trainings, our programmes integrate evidence-informed practice with lived experience insights. Individuals leave able to understand the principles of trauma-engaged care gaining not just knowledge, but the confidence and competence to make real-world impact.

MindSET is an innovative digital platform created by young people with lived experience for their peers. It offers free, evidence-informed tools to manage anxiety, distress and intense emotions. Grounded in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), MindSET prioritises early intervention, skill-building and emotional self-regulation.