Why we do what we do
After many years of counselling and psychotherapy practice which included working with residential group therapy programmes for sufferers of addiction, our founder Mark Lindsey Earley (pictured), became particularly concerned with, and interested in, the plight of the clients who struggled or floundered.
Having always identified with the underdog and the socially excluded, Mark began to ask difficult questions about why some programmes (and therapists) failed to meet the needs of some clients.
He discovered that the answers often lay in two key areas. Firstly, these people often had undiagnosed and unidentified underlying conditions, especially neuro-divergent conditions likes Autism, Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder, but also under-recognised mental health disorders like Retroactive Jealousy.
The second major factor was when people were struggling with conditions or issues that bore so much stigma, or such risk of ridicule, that sufferers were afraid to disclose them to their clinicians or peers and, as a consequence, their core wounds remained untreated and unhealed.
Our mission is to make tailored, focused support and treatment readily and easily available to people who fall into the latter group. To provide skilled and informed assessment and screening to the former group, so that deeply painful issues no longer have to be concealed, and underlying problems can be recognised, identified and treated.
After many years of counselling and psychotherapy practice which included working with residential group therapy programmes for sufferers of addiction, our founder Mark Lindsey Earley (pictured), became particularly concerned with, and interested in, the plight of the clients who struggled or floundered.
Having always identified with the underdog and the socially excluded, Mark began to ask difficult questions about why some programmes (and therapists) failed to meet the needs of some clients.
He discovered that the answers often lay in two key areas. Firstly, these people often had undiagnosed and unidentified underlying conditions, especially neuro-divergent conditions likes Autism, Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder, but also under-recognised mental health disorders like Retroactive Jealousy.
The second major factor was when people were struggling with conditions or issues that bore so much stigma, or such risk of ridicule, that sufferers were afraid to disclose them to their clinicians or peers and, as a consequence, their core wounds remained untreated and unhealed.
Our mission is to make tailored, focused support and treatment readily and easily available to people who fall into the latter group. To provide skilled and informed assessment and screening to the former group, so that deeply painful issues no longer have to be concealed, and underlying problems can be recognised, identified and treated.