Educational support & programmes for patients & clinicians

Heart 2 Hart Healthcare Solutions has been designed with the psychological welfare of the patient in mind, from the start of the medical experience to the end, whether it be for a long term condition, accident or medical procedure. Regardless of the circumstances, anxiety is natural when coming to terms with a medical condition, acceptance of a surgical procedure, or where unexpected complications have occurred, causing recovery to be prolonged. If the prognosis is challenging, apprehension and anxiety may alternate in equal measures, meaning the balance between expectancy and fear can become overwhelming. Environmental, social and historical influences can also trigger unwelcome responses and having somebody to share those concerns with can be a huge relief, somebody who can listen impartially and who doesn’t minimise those anxieties that can seem frighteningly real in difficult circumstances.

Many of us are conscious of the pressures on our NHS and our clinicians, lack of resources, staff sickness and shortages, and working hours that are often challenging. Heart 2 Hart Healthcare Solutions is currently working to offer educational support and programmes tailored to staff, encouraging them to  embrace a more 'trauma informed care' approach, whereby patients are involved in their treatment plan, collaborated with and listened to, and clinicians and patients work together holistically for a better phsycological outcome.

“I cannot thank Colette enough nor recommend her services more highly……”

Colette is currently collaborating  with an American Professor and Clinical Psychotherapist who has been carrying out her own research into medical trauma in the US for some years, resulting in many published articles, the first known publication for mental health and health care professionals, and successful integrative interventions being used within therapy and the healthcare environment.  (For more information on Professor Michelle Flaum visit www.hawthorneintegrative.com) It is hoped that the proposed educational group therapy schemes, together with developing collaborative relationships with Clinicians will help patients  affected considerably in Wales. Psychological intervention through an on-site or associated counselling service can help to calm the patient's anxieties and normalise the situation, enabling them to feel they are being treated holistically; both psychologically as well as physiologically.  In addition, it is hoped we can follow the US principals under Professor Flaum, that psychological interventions prior to surgery, as well as access to support during recovery  could  prevent long term development of post-traumatic and medical trauma.

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately...........  Plato.

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