Intensive Trauma Treatment, Built Around Your Life

A flexible, trauma-informed day programme in London

Each week takes one area of life affected by trauma and explores it from every angle, through the body, relationships, understanding and creative expression, with individual support from specialist trauma clinicians.

Monday to Thursday in London. Attend one intensive week or build a programme around the areas that matter most to you.

“One of the world's leading residential trauma-treatment centres.”

Trauma can affect far more than our memories of what happened.

It can shape our relationships. Our boundaries. The way we respond to conflict. How we feel in our bodies. Our ability to trust. The roles we take on around other people. How we see ourselves. And how easy, or difficult, it feels to imagine and build a future.

Khiron’s Day Clinic is an intensive trauma treatment programme designed around the areas of life where the effects of trauma are often felt most.

Our programme runs Monday to Thursday in London, combining somatic work, experiential group therapy, psychoeducation, creative therapies and individual sessions with specialist trauma clinicians.

Rather than following a traditional course with one fixed beginning and end, treatment is organised around ten rolling therapeutic themes.

You can stay with us across the full programme, attend for a number of weeks as part of a longer treatment plan, or join us for a single intensive week focused on an area of your life where you would particularly like support.

There is no single way through the programme, because there is no single way trauma affects a life.

Flexible by design

One programme. Different ways to use it.

The Day Clinic has been designed to provide meaningful, intensive trauma treatment while allowing greater flexibility around your life and individual needs.

Pathway one

Step down from residential treatment

Moving from residential treatment back into everyday life can be a significant transition. Within residential treatment, you have structure, therapeutic support and a community around you. Returning to relationships, responsibilities, work, family and everyday pressures can bring new challenges, particularly as you begin putting what you have learned into practice.

The Day Clinic can provide a therapeutic bridge between the two. You can continue working intensively while beginning to explore your recovery within the relationships and situations where old patterns may be most likely to appear.

Pathway two

An alternative to residential treatment

You may feel that you need more support than a weekly therapy session can realistically provide, without wanting or needing to step completely away from your home and everyday life.

The Day Clinic offers intensive trauma treatment during the day while allowing you to remain connected to your relationships, responsibilities and home life. Depending on your clinical needs, you can attend for two, three or four days each week.

Pathway three

Join us for a particular therapeutic week

You don’t need to complete all ten themes to access the programme. If one or several themes speak particularly strongly to something happening in your life, you can apply to attend those weeks individually. You might attend Boundaries, Needs & Finding Your Voice, return later for Family, Co-dependency & Relationship Roles, or choose several weeks with the support of your clinician.

If you are joining us for one standalone therapeutic week, we ask that you attend all four days. This allows enough time to explore the theme in greater depth and experience each part of the programme.

The programme

Ten themes exploring where trauma meets everyday life

The programme runs continuously through ten therapeutic themes.

For clients moving through the full programme, the themes follow a considered progression. We begin by building greater understanding of our internal world, before exploring relationships, communication and boundaries. The focus then widens to family, loss and our experiences within the world around us, before exploring safety, agency, identity and moving forward.

Every theme is explored through the body, relationships, therapeutic understanding and creative expression.

Understanding Yourself

Weeks 01–03

Trauma doesn’t only affect what we think and remember. It can change the way our bodies and nervous systems respond to the world around us.

You might become overwhelmed quickly, shut down, feel constantly alert to what is happening around you, or experience physical responses that seem difficult to understand or control.

This week explores the connection between trauma, triggers, physical sensations, emotions and nervous system responses.

Through somatic practice, movement, psychoeducation, group therapy and creative work, you will have opportunities to become more curious about your own patterns and explore ways of responding to what happens within your body.

Human beings are rarely completely consistent.

One part of us may desperately want connection while another wants to run away. We may understand something intellectually while finding ourselves responding completely differently in the moment. We might want change while simultaneously feeling terrified of it.

Trauma can make these internal conflicts particularly powerful.

This week explores fragmentation and the different “parts” of ourselves that may have developed ways of helping us survive, protect ourselves or maintain relationships.

Drawing on parts-based approaches to trauma treatment, the week creates space to approach these conflicting responses with curiosity and begin understanding what they may be trying to protect.

Trauma can affect not only how we experience the world, but how we learn to see and speak to ourselves.

For some people, experiences of trauma can become intertwined with feelings of shame, inadequacy or a sense that something is fundamentally wrong with them. An inner voice may become highly critical, demanding or unforgiving.

This week explores shame, self-worth and the inner critic, including where some of these beliefs and ways of relating to ourselves may have come from.

Through the different elements of the programme, there is space to notice the language you use towards yourself, understand the protective role that self-criticism can sometimes play and explore the possibility of developing a different relationship with yourself.

Relationships & Repair

Weeks 04–06

Our experiences of relationships, particularly our earliest ones, can influence how we experience closeness throughout our lives.

Trauma can affect trust, intimacy, vulnerability, dependence, rejection and our expectations of what will happen when we allow another person to get close.

This week explores attachment wounds, relational trauma and the patterns that can emerge within our relationships.

Within the therapeutic group, there are opportunities not only to understand these patterns intellectually, but to become curious about how they may appear in real relationships with other people.

Trauma can make moments of conflict or disconnection feel particularly threatening.

We might withdraw, become defensive, struggle to express what we need, feel overwhelmed by another person’s response, or find ourselves repeating familiar patterns during difficult conversations.

This week explores what happens when communication becomes difficult and how we experience disagreement, conflict and disconnection.

Throughout the programme, clients learn and practise Khiron’s communication model, with opportunities to explore expressing needs, listening, navigating difficult conversations and what it can mean to repair a relationship after rupture.

For many people who have experienced trauma, recognising what we need is not always straightforward.

We may find ourselves automatically saying yes, prioritising other people’s feelings, avoiding disagreement, struggling to ask for help or feeling responsible for keeping everybody around us happy.

Sometimes we don’t realise a boundary has been crossed until long after it has happened.

This week explores boundaries alongside needs, responsibility, people pleasing and self-expression.

Within a supported therapeutic environment, there are opportunities to explore what it feels like to recognise your needs, communicate them and remain connected to yourself while in relationship with others.

Your Life & Relationships in Context

Weeks 07–08

Our experiences of relationships, particularly our earliest ones, can influence how we experience closeness throughout our lives.

Trauma can affect trust, intimacy, vulnerability, dependence, rejection and our expectations of what will happen when we allow another person to get close.

This week explores attachment wounds, relational trauma and the patterns that can emerge within our relationships.

Within the therapeutic group, there are opportunities not only to understand these patterns intellectually, but to become curious about how they may appear in real relationships with other people.

Grief is not limited to bereavement.

We can grieve relationships, childhoods, opportunities, identities, health, safety and versions of our lives that did not happen. Trauma itself can involve profound experiences of loss.

Change can also bring grief, even when the change is something we have chosen.

This week provides space to explore grief and loss in their many forms, alongside the complex emotions and experiences that can accompany significant transitions in our lives.

Reclaiming & Integrating

Weeks 09–10

One of the most profound effects of trauma can be a loss of safety.

The world may feel unpredictable, our bodies may continue to anticipate threat, trusting other people can feel difficult, and choices that appear straightforward from the outside can feel complicated by fear or previous experiences.

Trauma can also leave us feeling as though things happen to us, rather than experiencing ourselves as active participants in our own lives.

This week explores what safety means after trauma, not as an expectation that we will always feel safe, but as something we can begin to recognise, experience and build.

We explore trust in ourselves and others, choice, agency and the experience of having a voice in what happens next.

The focus is not on removing fear or vulnerability, but on exploring what it can mean to have greater choice in how we respond to them.

Trauma happens within the context of a life.

Our families, relationships, culture, identity, communities and wider social experiences can all influence both what we experience and how we make sense of it.

Trauma can also affect how we imagine our future, connect with other people and understand our place in the world.

This week explores identity, belonging, culture and the wider context of our experiences, alongside what it might mean to continue building a meaningful life while acknowledging what we carry with us.

That might involve exploring work, relationships, community, creativity, purpose, new experiences or connections that have previously felt difficult to imagine.

The focus isn’t on leaving trauma behind.

It is on exploring how a life can continue to grow around it.

Not sure which weeks are right?

You don't need to decide before speaking to us

The first step is an initial consultation with one of our senior trauma clinicians, either online or in person at our London Day Clinic.

Your day at the clinic

A consistent structure, with a different focus each week

Although the therapeutic theme changes each week, the structure of your days remains consistent. This predictability is intentional.

Each group approaches the week’s theme from a different direction, giving you opportunities to explore it physically, relationally, intellectually and creatively rather than relying on talking alone.

10:00–11:00 Movement & Somatic Group

Each day begins with movement and somatic practice. Trauma affects the body as well as our thoughts and emotions. This group provides space to notice physical experiences and nervous system responses and explore how movement and body-based approaches can form part of trauma treatment. The work changes according to the week’s theme, connecting what you are exploring therapeutically with your physical experience.

11:30–12:30 Process Group

A small, supported therapeutic group where there is space to explore what is happening for you in relation to the week’s theme. The group itself is an important part of the work. It provides opportunities to experience connection, practise communication, notice relational patterns and share experiences alongside other people doing their own therapeutic work.

13:30–14:30 Psychoeducational Group

Understanding what is happening to us can be an important part of trauma treatment. These sessions introduce trauma concepts, therapeutic approaches and practical frameworks connected to the week’s theme. They are designed to help you make sense of some of your experiences and introduce ideas and tools that you can continue exploring beyond the programme.

15:00–16:00 Creative & Experiential Group

Not everything can be reached through words. The final group uses creative and experiential approaches, including art-based therapeutic work, to explore and process some of what has emerged throughout the day. No artistic experience is required. The purpose is expression, exploration and experience rather than creating something “good”.

One-to-one support

Individual therapy alongside the group programme

Individual sessions provide a private space alongside the group programme. They give you an opportunity to explore what is emerging for you, bring attention to experiences you may not want to discuss within the group and receive additional support from a specialist trauma clinician throughout your treatment.

Attend 2 or 3 days per week

Includes one individual session each week.

Attend all 4 days

Includes two individual sessions each week.

If you are joining us for a single standalone themed week, you will attend the full four-day programme.

Your clinician will work with you to determine the pattern and intensity of attendance that is most appropriate for you.

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