Crossland & Jones
Casey Crossland and Helen Jones offer expert consultancy to the community and voluntary sector, clinical supervision for staff and reflective practice group work.
Between us we have over 30 years’ experience of working in community-based services, including:
- counselling
- clinical supervision
- peer support initiatives
- group work and reflective practice
- advocacy, advice and information
- suicide prevention
- anti-stigma campaigning
We specialise in staff wellbeing, especially for staff working with trauma. We offer person-centred, compassionate individual clinical supervision and group reflective practice. We work with front-line and infrastructure staff, managers and leaders.
Organisations which offer clinical supervision and reflective practice benefit from increased staff resilience, flexibility and job satisfaction. External support prevents vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout. Supervisees report improvements to team dynamics.
We offer consultancy and wellbeing support to organisations in crisis and/or undergoing major change.
We are passionate about action-based social research with minoritised and intersectional communities, our recent projects include:
- bereavement by suicide in LGBTQ+ communities
- the wellbeing impact of LGBTQ+ community centres
- loneliness, migration and mental health in LGBTQ+ communities.
Team
Helen
Helen has worked in the community and voluntary sector for 30+ years as a counsellor, advocacy worker, manager and leader. She was the founder CEO of MindOut, the LGBTQ Mental Health Service.
She currently works for National Mind, the National Development Team for Inclusion, the University of Brighton, Adoption South East and the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. She supervises staff at Galop, Albert Kennedy Trust, Off the Fence and Stonewall Housing.
Helen has extensive experience of governance, leadership, service development and project management. She is the author of several research studies. She is a trained psychotherapist.
She received an honorary MA from the University of Brighton in 2016 and an MBE in 2022 in recognition of her contribution to LGBTQ+ mental health.
Casey
Casey is a trauma informed therapist, clinical supervisor and group facilitator and has run a private practice since 2016.
She worked within the homeless sector for 10 years, in both frontline and management roles, and has managed advocacy and counselling services. She currently provides clinical supervision for a number of organisations including Galop, Albert Kennedy Trust, Brighton & Hove Switchbooard, Mermaids and The Clare Project.
Previously she has provided reflective practice for Brighton YMCA and Pathways to Independence for a number of years. In 2017 she co-founded Sensing Friends, a charity providing counselling and eco-therapy for young people with sensory needs.
Our Services
- Clinical supervision
- Group reflective practice
- Consultation and participation projects
- Project design and development
- Evaluation and monitoring
- Consultancy on best practice in trauma informed working
- Consultancy on organisational change
- Counselling for staff and people who use services
Our Principles
- Consultation, engagement and participation
- Inclusion, anti-racist practice and intersectional understanding
- Reducing health inequalities
- Evidence based best practice
- Sustainable community development
Published Research
Testimonials
Casey and Helen were fantastic to work with. Their experience and knowledge of the LGBT+ sector, service delivery and funding environment was invaluable. They worked collaboratively with both our staff and service users, ensuring that the finished work met the needs of the service and the people using it. I would thoroughly recommend them.Amy Roch, Director of Service and Deputy CEO at Galop.
We commissioned Crossland & Jones to undertake a piece of research about the ways in which suicide bereavement is experienced within LGBTQ+ communities. This subject had never been researched from this perspective before.Helen and Casey worked closely with us and with our panel of people with lived experience to ensure our views and concerns were reflected in every aspect of the research and report production. I would definitely recommend working with Crossland & Jones.Michelle Stebbings, Executive Lead at Support After Suicide Partnership
Organisations we work with
