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Our Services

We provide a wide range of one-to-one and group-based care and support services for people living with and affected by HIV.

Our Services / Supporting people with HIV

Our one-to-one counselling can help you work through difficult issues in a relaxed and confidential environment.

Dealing with emotional issues / Our Services

An experienced Life Coach can help you to successfully set and achieve ambitious goals and unlock your full potential.

Achieve ambitious yet realistic goals / Our Services

Our Wellbeing Workshops are the perfect way to improve quality of life, build social networks and enhance wellbeing.

Coaching Groups / Our Services

Hypnotherapy works particularly well for habit breaking, stress, addiction, panic attacks, phobias, depression and pain.

Our Services / The power of positive suggestion

Art Therapy enhances physical, mental and emotional wellbeing while helping to reduce stress and improve self-esteem.

Combining art with psychotherapy / Our Services

How We Work

  • 1.

  • Assessment

    A holistic review of your health and wellbeing needs.
  • 2.

  • Choice

    Choose from a range of care and support services.
  • 3.

  • Support

    Receive support from the services you choose.
  • 4.

  • Review

    Review your needs each time you complete a service.

What Our Clients Say About Us

Stephen
Counselling

"My counsellor really saved my life. I no longer fear a life living with HIV and my relationship with my family and boyfriend are so much better."

Chris
Life Coaching

"My coach has made such a difference to my life. We took things step by step so that every change felt doable rather than daunting."

Jessica
Wellbeing Workshops

"Well structured, informative and fun. The Wellbeing Workshops are a great way to meet new people, learn new skills and build confidence."

Raymond
Hypnotherapy

"I felt more relaxed – clearer in the mind and more able to deal with life. Hypnotherapy really helped me to deal with my anxieties."

Mary
Dramatherapy

"Although I’ve been living with HIV for nearly two decades, dramatherapy reminded me that I can always benefit from peer support."

Hannah
Connect Well

"I used to feel isolated and alone. But thanks to Connect Well, not any more."

Counselling

One-to-one counselling is a talking therapy that involves a trained therapist listening to you and helping you find ways to deal with emotional issues in a relaxed, non-judgemental and confidential environment. Whether you feel lonely or isolated, or just need someone outside your social circle with whom you can share your concerns, we’re here for you.

All our counsellors are members of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) or the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

Call us today and tell us about you and your goals, and we’ll match you to the right therapist for your individual needs.

Connect Well’s counselling sessions take place once a week on Zoom or telephone for up to six weeks, and are FREE for anyone living in London who is over 18 and part of the HIV community.

Life Coaching

One-to-one Life Coaching can provide you with greater structure, skills and perspective while helping to improve your overall confidence, resilience and wellbeing.

Connect Well Life Coaches can help you unlock your full potential and enable you to move forward beyond any feelings of loneliness and isolation, to achieve ambitious yet realistic goals.

Call us today and tell us about you and your goals, and we’ll match you to the right life coach for your individual needs.

Connect Well’s life coaching sessions take place once a week on Zoom or telephone for up to six weeks, and are FREE for anyone living in London who is over 18 and part of the of the HIV community.

Coaching Programme

The main aim of our Coaching Programme is to support people who may be experiencing loneliness and isolation. The six session programme is based on key principles of psychological wellbeing and positive psychology – with online sessions delivered on Zoom at the same time each week, for six weeks.

This fun and interactive support programme gives participants a platform to engage with peers as well as learning and sharing new tools and strategies to improve their day-to-day experience during times of loneliness and isolation.

Topics covered by the programme help support people’s positive mental health, which is essential for us to be able to make connections and take real steps to change our experience. While practical strategies and mini-goals, which are included in every session, are focused on reducing social isolation and loneliness.

All Connect Well services are FREE for anyone living in London who is over 18 and part of the HIV community.

Wellbeing Workshops

Connect Well’s Wellbeing Workshops are free standalone webinars delivered online by experienced facilitators focussed on issues and topics suggested by service users and professionals.

Based on the key principles of positive behaviour change, Wellbeing Workshops deliver positive health messages and encourage healthier lifestyle choices while helping to build increased confidence, motivation and resilience.

Past workshops have focused on topics such as: Stress Management, Resilience, Personal Leadership, Relationships and Communications, Happiness and Confidence.

All Connect Well services are FREE for anyone living in London who is over 18 and part of the HIV community.

Art Therapy

Art Therapy is a fun creative process where art-making and psychotherapy combine to aid individual growth, awareness and healing.

In Art Therapy no art skills are required – participants are free to make images which provide a more tangible and immediate way to express feelings and emotions. The aim is to release creativity, ease distress, increase awareness, resolve conflicts, trauma and/or cope with difficult emotions.

Art Therapy can help participants to manage and resolve emotional problems, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, bereavement, depression, anxiety, feeling stuck, health problems and general life struggles.

Connect Well online Art Therapy sessions can be delivered as both standalone workshops and extended programmes normally run over six weeks.

All Connect Well services are FREE for anyone living in London who is over 18 and part of the HIV community.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy utilises the power of positive suggestion to bring about subconscious change in people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

Hypnotherapy works particularly well as a treatment for anxiety, habit breaking, stress, addiction, panic attacks, phobias, mild depression, sleep disorders, trauma and pain.

All Connect Well hypnotherapists are qualified and experienced at supporting people with a diverse range of health conditions.

Sessions take place once a week on Zoom or telephone for up to six weeks, and are FREE for anyone living in London who is over 18 and part of the HIV community.

Ana Paula Nacif

Ana Paula Nacif is an experienced wellbeing coach. Ana’s coaching style is insightful, challenging, intuitive, encouraging, direct and energetic. By creating an atmosphere of trust, she is able to challenge comfort zones and tap into the resourcefulness of her clients with clarity.