Services

Vida have developed and delivered specialist domestic and sexual abuse services for many years. We now focus our service delivery on recovery and empowerment work with women and girls.

Purpose

We are a specialist trauma-focused and gender sensitive therapy service for women and girls whose mental health is affected by previous experiences of abuse and trauma.   See below for details.

Our Service

We have developed a pathway of interventions through our service which includes several group work programmes and a choice of 1:1 trauma focused Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy and EMDR, these are evidence based treatments recommended in the NICE Guidelines for Domestic Abuse] or integrative counselling.   

Ethical framework

Vida are accredited with the BACP and we work within the BACP & BABCP current Ethical Framework.  A number of therapists are accredited with either the BACP, BABCP or NCPS.  See our Ethical Statement link at the bottom of this page for more detail.

Limits to confidentiality

We will sometimes have to pass on information to others (e.g. Police, Social Services), where failure to do so could be illegal or would pose a threat to the safety of yourself, your children and others.  See our Privacy & Confidentiality Statement link at the bottom of this page for more detail.

Our work

We take a phase based approach to working therapeutically with clients – the first phase is about helping clients to manage the distress they experience by learning about different coping strategies, gaining tools for emotional regulation and importantly learning about the impacts of abuse and trauma and the ‘Brain Science’ of trauma responses. The second phase is working at a deeper level and emotionally processing trauma memories and their impacts. The final phase is helping clients to ‘reclaim their lives’ and move forward towards the life they want to live, free from abuse, fear and anxiety.

Other information

Our Services are free of charge; we are a registered charity (Vida Sheffield No. 1092661).  Our service is for women and girls 16+ who live in Sheffield.

Our Opening times are Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, we are closed on bank holidays.  Please note that we do not offer any crisis or emergency support; should you need immediate help please ring NHS 101 (999 in an emergency). 

We offer a blended service with a combination of face-to-face and remote therapy.

You are invited to refer yourself, or you can be referred by another service.  Please do check the banner at the top to see if our waiting list is open as we are sorry that we need to close periodically to meet the existing demand for our service.  

Download our Eva Services for Women & Girls leaflet and click on the page links below for more information about the services we offer.

Eva Therapy Service – a specialist counselling and therapy service for women and girls affected by any form of abuse and trauma

Eva Support Group – informal women’s support group with crafts based activities

Group Work Programmes – therapeutic programmes are now a crucial part of the pathway through the therapy service