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For workers on the front line of COVID-19
Free
Online
Mental Heath &
Emotional Wellbeing
Support
FREE online mental health and emotional wellbeing support services, set up by therapists to support NHS staff.
If you are an NHS worker directly working with COVID-19 and you need support to help you through this difficult time, please click here to register and more info. Its quick, easy and absolutely free of charge.
If you are a qualified and experienced therapist offering free sessions, click here.
NHS workers affected by COVID-19
Support Services
It's free, it's quick and it's easy. Connect on Zoom, Skype or FaceTime with a qualified therapist at a time that suits you:
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Confidential
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Supportive
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Non judgemental
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Accepting
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Calming
Therapists
To support those on the front-line of COVID-19:
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Experienced
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Fully qualified
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Compassionate
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Strong Empathic Resonance
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Flexible around session times
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Able to offer Skype/Zoom/FaceTime
Frontline19 was set up by a small team of experienced therapists as a crisis response to the COVID-19 epidemic. We are working in partnership with Helpforce and we are guided by a steering committee of industry professionals.
Frontline19 Founders
Claire Goodwin-Fee
Claire is a highly-experienced psychotherapist, supervisor and business coach for other therapists.
She is passionate about supporting our NHS frontline staff at this extraordinary time, having in the past received incredible loving care for a family member from intensive care nurses and doctors. From her many years in practice as a therapist and coach, she has a wide network of colleagues and professional therapists who are on hand to support others.
Sam Cotton
Sam is an experienced coach, facilitator and therapist. He has delivered personal development work to thousands as a Senior Teacher of The Hoffman Process and through his own workshops and his one to one private practice in London Liverpool Street.
He has friends and family working for the NHS directly with COVID-19 patients, and is concerned by the traumatic experiences they are facing. Sam was motivated to help support them and to bring his many contacts from the personal development world to the NHS frontline.
Ellen Waldren
Ellen is MBACP accredited and a clinical supervisor with many years experience working with anxiety and associated disorders. She is also a skilled mindfulness practitioner.
She is dedicated to supporting NHS workers to find the support they need through this incredibly challenging period and beyond.
Frontline 19 Steering Committee
Dr Alice Laskey (Chair) | Clinical Psychologist
Dr Alice Laskey is a Clinical Psychologist registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). She has worked in a range of NHS and private settings over the past two decades with individuals, groups and systems. She draws from a variety of cognitive, analytic, systemic and mindfulness-based approaches. She previously founded and ran the online Networking Community for Psychologist in Independence Practice (NCPIP). She is keen to support Frontline19 in service to essential workers at this critical time when we all need to pull together to offer what we can.
Sian Morgan MA | Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
Sian Morgan is a BACP & BABCP accredited psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who has practiced for nearly 30 years. She is also an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant and Trainer and a trauma specialist. Sian is the founder and president of Trauma Aid UK (2009) which is a charity providing training to professionals in Bosnia and the Middle East, enabling them to treat trauma following crisis situations, such as war or natural disasters.
Yvonne Morris LLB (Hons), LLM, CIPP/E | Legal
Yvonne holds both a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Law and is a certified Privacy Practitioner. She has worked in-house as a Commercial Lawyer for non-ministerial government departments at the Office of Fair Trading and OFGEM. She subsequently spent a number of years as a commercial contracts lawyer at Ticketmaster UK/Live Nation Entertainment, one of the world's largest media organisations. She is the CEO and founder of Cloud Legal, an online legal support platform for SMEs. Yvonne has many areas of expertise including data protection, privacy, advertising and marketing law, website / app / information technology and software & intellectual property.
Dr Frank Davey | General Practitioner
Dr Davey has championed the Frontline19 initiative from the outset, and is currently serving local A&E departments as an on call GP during the COVID-19 pandemic. He previously worked as a GP Registrar and then for many years as a Partner at the Stennack Surgery, St Ives, also developing services at the Edward Hain Hospital, where he set up the Community Alcohol Detox Programme. Dr Davey was also a lead GP for mental health and part of the Stennack Surgery Research Team before becoming a portfolio locum working in local surgeries, the homeless service and the District General Hospital.
Ady Griffiths | IT, Strategy & Web Design
Ady Griffiths is an accomplished business web designer who specialises in working with charities and not-for-profits, as well as creative businesses. He is sympathetic with personal growth work and is a successful mindfulness and embodied yoga principles teacher in addition to his busy IT & Design Business.