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About Solace Surviving Exile and Persecution

Solace is a Leeds’-based charity which provides psychotherapy, complementary therapies and advocacy support to the survivors of persecution and exile living in the Yorkshire and Humber region, many of whom have been traumatised by torture, rape, the death or disappearance of loved ones and often combinations of all of these and other atrocities. Despite widespread mental health problems, there is very little appropriate mental health care available to the vast majority of asylum seekers and refugees, particularly those who speak little or no English, which is why we work with interpreters in about half of all the therapy and advocacy sessions we offer. We provide help in a number of ways to adults, children and families, including one-to-one counselling, group therapy, family therapy, anxiety and stress management and activities’ groups, as well as complementary therapies, such as massage and scaro-cranial massage to address physical pain and tension in the body. Solace therapists come from different therapeutic backgrounds, including family and systemic therapy, psychodynamic therapy, integrative psychotherapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Helping our clients to build resources by learning to cope with disturbing body sensations, extreme emotions, destabilising thoughts and other symptoms of trauma and distress is fundamental to recovery. Several of our therapists are trained to use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing). Mindfulness, guided imagery, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and other techniques. Therapists at Solace are trained by us to work with asylum seekers and refugees, which includes training in how to work with interpreters in a therapeutic setting. All our therapists are qualified to at least Diploma-level in counselling or psychotherapy and in many cases, they are qualified to a much higher level.