Our Mission
At Repairing Trauma, we are championing HOPE that you can recover from childhood trauma.
We want to raise awareness, help educate and provide you the tools to help you create a life that heals you. We know that sometimes you need someone alongside you to help you figure things out.
We want to take away for you the time, energy, stress and overwhelm that is involved in seeking the most appropriate way forward.
We champion you.
We champion those helping someone they care about to recover.
Individual Coaching and Family Support Services
Recovery is not easy. We get it.
However, not only is it possible to recover, you can thrive. You can achieve anything you set your mind to. We help guide your way and focus on what's possible through Individual Personal Development and Coaching sessions and Family Support Sessions. We 'slow down to speed up' to spend the time with you to truly understand.
You carers, friends, and family members need that too. We specialise in Therapeutic Parenting and Mentoring Support for parents/carers/friends.
We support you through a mixture of listening, teaching, coaching, and reflecting on what is right for you. We care to create safe, meaningful spaces where there is no judgement. You share only what feels comfortable. We utilise a wellbeing lifestyle approach - it's the little changes everyday that lead to the big ones.
No need is too small.
Chemistry Call
We offer a free 30 minute 'chemistry session' to see if our offer feels right for you.
Alternatively, pop us a message on the socials or an email and we are happy to chat with you to see if we can help.
Trauma Recovery Focussed Assessment
At Repairing Trauma we slow things down to make sense of them. We believe that pause makes a big difference.
Our Trauma Recovery Focussed Assessment utilises a therapeutic approach that focuses on understanding and addressing problems within the full context of your past and current experiences, within relationships and systems; rather than solely focusing on current individual behaviours or symptoms. We identify patterns using an open curious mindset to develop ideas about what would help. It's trauma centric in that we focus on assessing the key elements of how you recovery from trauma.
Our assessments are designed to be an intervention in themselves in that sessions encourage you to think differently toward change being possible from the outset.
The assessment, or part of it, can be provided to those that need to understand your history so that you don't have to keep repeating your story. We are used to writing therapeutic letters, advocating for your needs where needed.
We are very much 'alongside' you in our approach. We will check with you what feels comfortable and if it's ok to explore things in your own time at a depth you are comfortable with.
Importantly assessments aren't written in a complicated way - they are accessible, succinct, jargon free and focussed to be reflective of our initial time together. We don't need to know 'everything' in order to create change, we need to know enough to take action. We also don't provide a shopping list of interventions or recommendations which is overwhelming, we focus on manageable change. Small steps build up! As we continue our work together our approach blends assessment and support but it should never feel like you're being 'assessed'.
Anyone with a trauma history will benefit hugely from such an assessment which becomes the spine, the compass, and the road map forward in your life.
Consultation & Training
We are currently developing a trauma recovery training programme aimed to equip and empower you to create a life that's heals you. This is ideal if you want the information to consider and process in your own time in your own way. The aim also that the people you meet become a community around you.
We work alongside organisations, Charities, and Local Authorities who have specific needs around the assessment and/or support around childhood trauma recovery.
Our Approach
Founder, Kelly Johnson BSc MA, is an Independent Therapeutic Social Worker and Trauma Recovery Specialist, who has over 20 years of expertise. For 10 years Kelly has also been employed by a Local Authority Regional Adoption Agency, 4 years as Team Manager, specialising in commissioned and in-house wide-ranging, trauma-informed and trauma recovery focussed assessments, support plans, and support/therapies for children and families. This specialism, sixteen years in Adoption and Special Guardianship, has included supporting young people and adults of all ages impacted by childhood trauma including parents, carers, adult adoptees, and birth relatives.
At the core of our Repairing Trauma service is a Trauma Recovery Focussed Model® (Betsy de Thierry, 2025), alongside Attachment-Focussed, Solution-Focussed and Systemic approaches that help identify how best to help; especially important when there are a lot of competing needs and risks. All our services are online.
We utilise what is helpful from an array of training and modalities here at Repairing Trauma:
- BSc (HONS) Psychology
- MA in Social Work
- BdT Trauma Recovery Model BdT Trauma Recovery Focused Model | Betsy Training UK
- Theraplay® Foundational Practitioner and Groupwork About | Theraplay UK
- Advanced Theraplay® Marschak Interaction Method (MIM) Assessment
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Level 1 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy - DDP Network
- Lego Therapy What is LEGO-Based therapy? Expert Advice - Therapy Focus
- Circle of Security What is the Circle of Security - Circle of Security International
- Foundation course in Solution-Focussed Therapy What is Solution-Focused Therapy · Solution-Focused Therapy Institute
- Systemic Management and Supervision What is systemic practice?
- Dare to Lead Dare to Lead Hub - Brené Brown
We are always continuing to evolve to meet the changing needs of our clients because we care passionately about what we do.
Kelly is currently training in her Foundation year of Systemic Practice. The course is accredited by the Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK (AFT).
Empowering Lives Together
Our Values
Our Expertise
Our Expertise
At Repairing Trauma, we are guided by our core values of compassion, integrity, trust and hope - essential for trauma recovery.
We care to get the foundations of our relationship with you right. Our pricing structure reflects our expertise and allows us to keep the numbers of families/adults we support small - importantly, focussing on q
At Repairing Trauma, we are guided by our core values of compassion, integrity, trust and hope - essential for trauma recovery.
We care to get the foundations of our relationship with you right. Our pricing structure reflects our expertise and allows us to keep the numbers of families/adults we support small - importantly, focussing on quality.
Our duty is to raise your awareness of what you need to recover from trauma. We hold strong ethical values to enable you to access the most appropriate service at the right time - if our service isn't best placed, we will tell you.
We utilise systemic reflexive and reflective practice, taking into account how our actions and beliefs impact how we support you to prevent traumatisation.
Our Expertise
Our Expertise
Our Expertise
We hold extensive experience working with diverse populations, including children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
We specialise in areas such as trauma, wellbeing, and family dynamics, and we use practices that go to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Professional Registrations:
Social Work England Registration SW9915
We hold extensive experience working with diverse populations, including children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
We specialise in areas such as trauma, wellbeing, and family dynamics, and we use practices that go to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Professional Registrations:
Social Work England Registration SW9915
Childhood Trauma Recovery Network CTRN
Search for support near you — CTRN UK
Theraplay® UK
Find a Practitioner | Theraplay UK
BASW Independent's Register
Our Community
Our Expertise
Our Community
We are proud to be a part of such a passionate Trauma Informed and Recovery Focussed Community. We are committed to always learning and developing to make our services better for you.
The more we know, the more you benefit.
Click the link below to be introduced to some remarkable colleagues alongside us in the trauma recovery community and their incredible offerings.
Our Hopes and Dreams..
We have big dreams here at Repairing Trauma!
We will be continuing to developing our offer in a responsive way putting your needs at the centre.
We are building a training offer around trauma recovery with community and connection at its heart.
