Community-Based Mental Health Support – Proposal
I letter I was prompted to write after a wonderful conversation with the HCA that took my bloods last week.
RE: Community-Based Mental Health Support – Proposal
On Thursday 22nd May, I had a powerful conversation with [name], one of your healthcare assistants. She encouraged me to reach out after hearing about the work I do and learning that your practice had recently lost a mental health practitioner. She felt — as I do — that what I offer could deeply benefit some of your patients.
The truth is, I’ve felt called to contact your practice for over three years. As someone who has lived through and fully integrated complex trauma, emotional crisis, nervous system collapse, and identity loss, I offer a different kind of support: one grounded in lived experience, emotional precision, and deep transformation.
I work as a Holistic Mental Health Specialist and Lived Experience Coordinator, supporting individuals through emotional breakdowns, trauma responses, burnout, post-medication fatigue, and chronic disconnection. My approach is trauma-informed, intuitive, body-aware, and rooted in nearly 25 years of navigating and healing my own mental and emotional health challenges — including anxiety, CPTSD, antidepressant withdrawal, alcohol dependence, grief, and adrenal exhaustion.
While medication can help stabilise symptoms, my work activates real change — especially when someone feels stuck, shut down, or out of alignment with themselves. Many people don’t need more pills. They need reconnection. They need regulation. They need someone to reflect their truth back to them when they’ve forgotten how to hear it.
So many individuals already know what’s right for them — but trauma, conditioning, and chronic stress can sever their connection to that inner knowing. My work restores that connection. Through calm presence, deep listening, and emotionally attuned dialogue, I help individuals rebuild trust in themselves, take aligned action, and begin to live from a place of personal truth and safety.
I specialise in working with:
Highly sensitive individuals, empaths, and those with anxious or emotionally reactive dispositions
Patients navigating depressive states, burnout, or grief
People who feel “too much,” “too complex,” or misunderstood in traditional models
Individuals experiencing disconnection from their identity, intuition, or sense of self
My support includes helping people:
Rebuild nervous system safety
Regulate after trauma or prolonged stress
Reconnect with their preferences, boundaries, and needs
Make the subconscious conscious
Lay down new foundations for sustainable, soul-aligned change
I’ve helped people exit emotionally abusive relationships, leave unsafe environments, shift long-standing behavioural patterns, and return to a place of clarity and inner direction. I don’t diagnose or prescribe — I help people reconnect to the part of themselves that already knows what needs to change.
My work aligns closely with voices like Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, whose NHS-based advocacy for root-cause healing and integrated care affirmed what I’ve intuitively known since I was a teenager: true healing begins when someone feels seen, safe, and empowered.
I’m writing to offer my support with select patients or piloting a more structured support service for those navigating emotional overwhelm, disconnection, or long-term stress responses.
Looking ahead, I hold a vision of GP surgeries evolving into true centres of health — supporting patients not just physically or mentally, but emotionally and spiritually too. I believe the future of care lies in collaboration between traditional medicine and trauma-informed, body-based practitioners like myself — and I would be honoured to be part of that evolution, starting here.
If this resonates, I’d love the opportunity to speak further.
Warm regards,
Elisha May
Holistic Mental Health Specialist
