Our Community
Room to Heal supports people in their lengthy and difficult journeys towards a sense of personal safety, belonging and fulfilment, after extreme violence.
Approach
In the face of torture people dissociate to survive. No longer able to engage, people become lost, their humanness spoilt, their relationship to everything broken. ...Aims
We aim to enable people who have experienced torture and/or organised violence to heal from their traumatic experiences, find renewed meaning in life and integrate ...History
Mark Fish founded Room to Heal in 2007, having worked for over twenty years in counselling and psychotherapy. It was Mark’s experiences working in conflict ...Members
Our group is made up of men and women from vastly different cultural, educational and religious backgrounds. We have over seventy members who come from ...Team
“The strength of Room to Heal comes from the enthusiasm and dedication of the people involved.” Amy Saunders, UK Programme Officer, Comic Relief STAFF Mark Fish ...Funders
Our community and the valuable healing work it makes possible, could not exist without the generous support of our funders. We would like to thank ...Partners
Partnerships are vital to our work. Our projects are housed with the following partners in Islington, London: Culpeper Community Garden Mayville Community Centre Claremont Project ...