Sectors We Work With
Specialist knowledge of your sector. Fresh thinking from working across all of them.
Occupational trauma does not stop at sector boundaries. Wherever people carry sustained responsibility for others, in hospitals, classrooms, care homes, police stations, courtrooms or community organisations, the same patterns of burnout, moral injury and compassion fatigue emerge. Every sector has its own pressures and cultural context. This service understands both the shared human experience and the specific world each workforce inhabits.
NHS and Healthcare
Healthcare environments bring a distinctive combination of pressures. Clinical governance considerations shape how staff process critical incidents. Patient safety concerns sit alongside professional identity in a way that makes moral injury particularly acute. The sustained intensity of acute settings, the isolation of community roles, and the compounding weight of post-pandemic experience have left a workforce carrying more than standard support provision was designed to hold.
We work with NHS trusts, integrated care boards, hospices and independent healthcare providers across acute, mental health, community and primary care settings. We understand the regulatory landscape, the hierarchical pressures that make asking for help feel risky, and the particular experience of clinical and non-clinical staff who absorb others’ suffering as a matter of daily professional routine.
Particular presentations in this sector: vicarious trauma, moral injury from resource constraints, burnout in clinical leadership, compassion fatigue in nursing and care staff, and return-to-practice support following patient safety incidents.
Social Care
Social care staff work at the intersection of human vulnerability and systemic under-resourcing. The moral injury of knowing what families, children and adults need, and being structurally unable to provide it, is a defining feature of this workforce’s experience. High caseloads, frequent staff turnover, and the emotional weight of safeguarding decisions compound over time in ways that standard support rarely addresses.
We work with local authority children’s and adults’ services, independent social care providers, looked-after children services and family support teams. We understand the LADO process, the weight of Section 47 decisions, the complexity of professional relationships in multi-agency settings, and the culture of resilience that can make acknowledging difficulty feel like professional failure.
Particular presentations in this sector: moral injury from structural constraints, vicarious trauma from child protection work, burnout in frontline and senior practitioners, and post-investigation support for staff involved in serious case reviews.
Education
Education is experiencing a staff wellbeing crisis that has not yet been adequately named. Teachers, school leaders, SENCOs, teaching assistants and further education staff carry the weight of student welfare, safeguarding disclosures, behaviour management and systemic pressure in ways that rarely feature in public discussion of occupational trauma. The language of trauma-informed practice is already established in education for student support. It is far less available for the adults who deliver it.
We work with schools, multi-academy trusts, further education colleges and higher education institutions. We understand the inspection regime, the governance structures of academy trusts, the safeguarding duties that create particular pressure on designated leads, and the cultural expectation that teachers simply manage.
Particular presentations in this sector: burnout in school leadership, compassion fatigue in SENCO and pastoral roles, moral injury from exclusion decisions and resource constraints, vicarious trauma from student welfare disclosures, and return-to-practice support following capability or disciplinary processes.
Emergency Services
Emergency services staff accumulate vicarious trauma through repeated exposure to violence, death and human suffering in conditions that demand immediate action rather than reflection. The culture of resilience and toughness that characterises these workforces is both a strength and a barrier, making acknowledgement of difficulty harder and the delay before reaching support longer.
We work with police, fire service, ambulance services, paramedic and pre-hospital care teams. We understand the shift-based culture, the operational demands that follow staff beyond working hours, the complex dynamics of team cohesion in high-stress environments, and the specific challenges that arise following critical incidents, complaints and misconduct investigations.
Particular presentations in this sector: cumulative trauma from repeated exposure to critical incidents, moral injury from organisational decisions and resource constraints, burnout in operational leadership and supervisory roles, and post-incident recovery support following investigations or formal processes.
Charities and Third Sector
Charity and third-sector organisations carry occupational trauma challenges that are no less serious for the fact that budgets are smaller. Staff who work in homelessness, domestic abuse, refugee support, hospice care and community advocacy are often doing the most emotionally demanding work in the country, with the least structured support available to them. The sense of mission that draws people into this work can also make asking for help feel like a failure of commitment.
We work with hospices, housing associations, domestic abuse services, homelessness organisations, refugee and asylum seeker support, advocacy services, and community and voluntary organisations. We provide proportionate support that respects genuine financial constraints while ensuring staff receive what they need to sustain the work they do.
Particular presentations in this sector: burnout compounded by mission fatigue, vicarious trauma from working with survivors of abuse or displacement, moral injury from funding constraints, compassion fatigue in frontline and volunteer-facing roles, and organisational grief following client deaths or service closures.
Public Sector and Local Government
Public sector organisations operate under scrutiny and accountability that shapes every aspect of employment and people management. Local government, central government bodies, arm’s-length organisations and justice and probation services all carry particular pressures: elected member involvement, public accountability for every decision, funding constraints that have deepened over many years, and the moral injury of delivering public services under conditions that make doing so well increasingly difficult.
We work with local authorities, central government departments, arm’s-length bodies, justice and probation services, and regulatory bodies. We understand the decision-making structures that add complexity to people management, the reputational stakes of workplace issues in publicly scrutinised organisations, and the specific challenges facing public sector managers who must deliver difficult organisational changes while supporting the people who deliver them.
Particular presentations in this sector: burnout in public service delivery, moral injury from policy implementation that conflicts with professional values, compassion fatigue in frontline service roles, and leadership burnout in environments of sustained public pressure and organisational change.
The Legal Profession
Lawyers, barristers and legal professionals working in family law, criminal defence, housing, immigration and social welfare carry occupational trauma that the profession rarely acknowledges. Sustained exposure to human suffering, poverty, domestic abuse, custody disputes, asylum claims, combined with adversarial working conditions and significant personal accountability creates the conditions for vicarious trauma and moral injury to accumulate, largely unnoticed and unsupported.
We work with law firms, chambers, in-house legal teams and organisations employing legal professionals in people-facing advisory roles. We understand the professional culture that equates emotional distance with competence, the duty of care responsibilities that leave little space for practitioners to process their own experience, and the particular isolation of roles where confidentiality limits the possibility of peer support.
Particular presentations in this sector: vicarious trauma from sustained exposure to client suffering, moral injury from adversarial processes and systemic injustice, burnout in high-caseload roles, compassion fatigue in family and criminal law practitioners, and return-to-practice support following complaints or regulatory processes.
Every sector. One gap. One service.
If you lead people who carry the human cost of their work, we would welcome a conversation about what recovery support could look like in your organisation.