The Solace Blog

We are introducing are first guest blog article this month. We are grateful to Natalie Knowles from West Yorkshire health and care partnership who has allowed Solace to post. It was first published in June 2026.

Building meaningful lived experience engagement: lessons from a Solace & Migration Yorkshire collaboration Solace has partnered with Migration Yorkshire to embed our clients’ lived experience into our services so they can have direct influence.

Top tips for supporting asylum seekers & refugees Working in the current climate can be very challenging for therapists supporting asylum seekers and refugees. Solace has come up with nine top tips to help.

Sharing 20 Years of Learning Our CEO, Kathryn Ashworth, reintroduces our monographs highlighting our commitment to share our expertise working with asylum seekers and refugees.

How Maslow missed the mark Solace Clinical Director, Anne Burghgraef writes about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how it doesn’t fit when describing the experiences of sanctuary seekers.

Hearing what’s important through the hostility Solace CEO Kathryn Ashworth reflects on the increasing hostility from many people who hold positions of power and influence towards people fleeing persecution, and the powerful impact of actively listening

A Response to the Afghan Crisis Long serving Solace therapist Paul Wood has been working to support Afghan arrivals in the region. Here’s Paul’s observations. Although for many of us in the West the Taliban resurgence and takeover in Afghanistan was unexpected and surprisingly fast, the Afghans I speak to tell me it was not unexpected; inevitable even.  The high levels of corruption in…

Art Therapy at Solace As part of our 15 Years Anniversary programme, we gave art therapist Aimee Hickman the opportunity to work therapeutically with clients to produce their own works of art thinking about ‘their journey’. Aimee’s Art Project We set up an Art and Wellbeing group and invited participants, living in Sheffield, who had an existing relationship with Solace.  The theme of the…