Even healers
need healing.
Broken Souls and Healing Network is a Kenyan public benefit organisation providing
counselling, peer support and safe spaces for humanitarian workers, emergency responders,
frontline health workers and the loved ones who hold them up. And, in equal measure, for
anyone at all who is carrying trauma, stress or a struggling mind. No uniform required, no
referral needed, nobody turned away.
Your first conversation is free and confidential. No referral needed.
Even scattered pieces come back together
Begin
Why we exist
The wounds nobody sees
In Kenya, most people who need mental health care never receive it. The reasons are
familiar: too few professionals, costs that put therapy out of reach, and the quiet
verdict that struggling means weakness. So people carry it alone. Aid workers returning
from deployment carry it alone. So do nurses, boda riders, students, mothers and the
person sitting next to you on the matatu.
We exist to close that gap, and to make asking for help an ordinary thing to do.
Our mission
To provide a dedicated platform and advocacy voice for mental health support and
psychosocial well-being for all people, regardless of age, background or social group,
who carry the invisible wounds of stress, trauma or emotional suffering. We place
particular emphasis on humanitarian workers, emergency responders and frontline workers
affected by service in conflict zones, disaster areas and disease outbreak regions, and
our services extend equally to non-humanitarian individuals and communities, recognising
that trauma and the need for healing are universal human experiences.
Our vision
To create a world where no person, whether a frontline worker carrying the weight of
service or an individual navigating the silent struggles of everyday trauma, faces their
healing journey alone. Where broken souls of all walks of life are recognised, supported
and reintegrated with renewed purpose and dignity.
Our core values
Dignity first. Every individual is treated with unconditional respect,
whatever their background or the nature of their struggle.
Radical inclusion. Services reach those most excluded.
Clinical excellence. Therapeutic services meet international standards
and are delivered or supervised by licensed professionals.
Community at the centre. Solutions are designed with communities, not
imposed upon them.
Accountability and transparency. We measure what matters, report
honestly and steward every resource with integrity.
Who we walk with
For the people who show up for everyone else, and for everyone else too
Our particular emphasis is the people who respond to the world's emergencies. Our doors are
open to everyone else in exactly the same way, without discrimination, because trauma does
not sort people by occupation and neither do we.
Humanitarian and aid workers
Support before deployment, during it, and through the strange, quiet season of coming
home when everyone assumes you are fine because you are back.
Emergency responders
For the first to arrive at the scene and the last to speak about it. A place to finally
set it down without being told to toughen up.
Frontline health workers
Doctors, nurses, clinical officers and community health volunteers carrying other
people's worst days on top of their own lives.
Families and loved ones
Loving someone who serves can be its own kind of frontline. We help partners, parents
and children understand what is happening and how to reconnect.
Survivors of trauma and violence
Including survivors of gender-based violence, displacement, loss and events that have
no tidy name. You do not need to explain everything to be believed here.
And anyone carrying something heavy
You do not need a uniform, a job title or a diagnosis to walk through our doors. Young
people, older people, students, workers, parents, the quietly exhausted. If trauma,
stress, grief or a struggling mind has found you, whoever you are, however old you are,
whatever you can or cannot pay, this network is yours too. We were born on the
frontline, and healing here has no gate.
Open to every age, gender and background. Nobody is turned away because they cannot pay.
