Before the Barca-Leeds Reclaim counselling service ended in March 2025, the team launched a mental health toolkit to help people manage and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
The toolkit was created following feedback from people who accessed the Reclaim service and includes tried and tested ideas and resources that they said had helped them. It features information about the 5 steps to mental wellbeing as well as activity ideas.
Reclaim provided long-term trauma informed one to one support from a qualified counsellor to adults who have experienced childhood trauma that was continuing to impact their mental health.
The service's approach to working with clients was informed by the growing body of research and practice that increasingly identifies strong links between adverse childhood experiences and a range of physical and mental health (and broader) risks and difficulties experienced as adults.
Reclaim was a continuation of a long running service funded for 9 years by the National Lottery delivering counselling and facilitated groupwork for the most disadvantaged communities in West Leeds. The service continued on a local basis within the Armley Primary Care Network as a highly targeted service that benefitted frequently attending patients who presented with the combined issues of persistent and long term physical and poor mental health.
For more information about our Counselling and Wellbeing services, please contact Laura Whitaker (Operations Director, Children, Young People and Families).
