MHPSS Support

Trauma-informed, culturally responsive support for individuals and organisations navigating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in complex settings.

MHPSS Support – Rooted Accompaniment in Fragile Contexts

Overview:

We provide thoughtful, politically-aware MHPSS support across humanitarian, post-conflict, and community-led spaces. Our work recognises that “psychosocial” cannot be separated from history, culture, trauma, or power. We support practitioners, organisations, and individuals navigating distress, fragmentation, and ethical strain, without falling into medicalisation, neutrality, or surface-level resilience models.

We draw on liberation psychology, narrative inquiry, cultural humility, and trauma-informed practice,  resisting the pressure to “fix” what is systemic or render invisible what is structural.

What We Offer

Contextualised MHPSS support for organisations in crisis zones, exile, or displacement

Narrative accompaniment for frontline workers carrying vicarious trauma or moral injury

Reflective, system-aware spaces for NGO teams under pressure

Cross-cultural consultation for mental health projects requiring depth and nuance

Ethical reflection sessions for those navigating burnout, rupture, or relational breakdown

Co-created workshops or trainings for teams facing complexity, violence, or disillusionment

Our Ethos

We don’t believe in empty tools or imported models. We work relationally, drawing on our lived experience across humanitarian, diasporic, and cross-cultural systems. Our approach is slow, careful, and layered — designed to hold what’s hard, without pathologising what’s painful.

How We Work

  • Facilitated by Dr Salma Siddique, Bea Mariam Killguss, or both depending on language, setting, and focus
  • Available online or in-person (where context allows)
  • Flexible formats: one-off sessions, embedded accompaniment, or long-term support
  • Trauma-aware and culturally responsive, shaped around language, identity, politics, and belonging

Examples of Recent Work

  • Trauma-informed support for Afghan journalists and frontline storytellers
  • Staff well-being accompaniment in refugee-led initiatives
  • Reflective workshops for practitioners in post-conflict zones
  • Narrative supervision for educators
  • Cultural consultancy for community mental health projects across borders

Who It’s For

  • NGOs, UN bodies, media teams, and grassroots initiatives seeking embedded psychosocial reflection
  • Practitioners living and working in layered systems of danger, care, and dissonance
  • Teams in protracted crisis, post-conflict reconstruction, or vicarious trauma contexts
  • Organisations seeking non-clinical, non-Westernised approaches to wellbeing and sustainability

Next Steps

We’re not a clinic. We’re not an EAP provider. But we walk alongside those doing this work with courage and complexity. If you’d like to explore MHSPSS support that’s more human, more political, and more alive to your context — we’d love to hear from you.

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

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