Our Aim is to

• Make provisions which help towards improving the mental health of  refugees and asylum seekers and others traumatised by war and conflict.
• Understand and promote understanding in those affected by war, conflict and persecution by providing psychotherapeutic interventions for those thus affected.
• Providing supervision and training for staff in Tfsw and other agencies and charities in Bristol who also provide support to those affected by war, conflict and torture.
• Mount conferences and other events which promote an understanding of the effects of war on individuals and people globally.

We thus provide a space of listening, witnessing and  support over months and years to help our clients find a life that has  meaning as well as surviving specific symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) such as bodily pain, flashbacks, nightmares and sleeplessness.

Most of our work is with individuals but we also provide an art therapy group with a trained art therapist.   All our individual therapists have special training and supervision for this work and are UKCP or BACP accredited.

Working  with people who have been severely traumatised can itself be  traumatising so support and supervision can help to keep staff healthy  and mentally able to continue the work over a period of years.

Trauma  Foundation South West is governed by a Board of Trustees, with varying  professional backgrounds which is of great assistance to the charity.We are also privileged to have the distinguished and socially committed actress, Ann Mitchell as pur patron