Side By Side Support Services

I offer a support service with a difference. I have worked in various care settings with vulnerable adults, am currently training as a Human Givens mental health practitioner and have a vast life experience of both chronic physical illness and mental illness. Now fully recovered, I can offer a unique, professional, yet empathetic and holistic approach to support work.

I also offer specialist Canine Assisted Support. I have one fully qualified, (retired) assistance dog who has been retrained to provide support to vulnerable adults. This support service can support clients to take on physical exercise, and encourage them to visit new places, promote a feeling of responsibility and achievement, provide emotional relief through physical contact, help to calm down anxiety attacks, stop dissociation, help to attend appointments (with permission from service providers), help to go shopping (with permission from the store) and support travelling on public transport