Intervention Type
Structured trauma-informed employment support programme. Cohort-based. Group and individual delivery. Seven sequential phases: 26 weeks of active delivery, with follow up to week 48.
Target Population
Women experiencing economic inactivity due to chronic health conditions, trauma histories, or both. Capable of sustained employment with appropriate support. Not in acute clinical crisis.
Delivery Model
Cohorts of up to twelve. Two named practitioners per cohort, present from session one to graduation wherever possible. In-person delivery at commissioner-agreed venue. Group sessions are in person. A remote option is available if a participant truly cannot attend.
Outcome Direction
Targets: 65% of completers in work at exit and 70% at 13 weeks. Modelled cost recovery of around 21 months at cohort level.
Employment Support Programme for Commissioners
Trauma Informed and Chronic Illness Aware Employment Support in the UK
Some women have been failed by every system designed to help them, whether the barrier was chronic illness, trauma, or both. TRIUMPH RECLAIM was built for her.
A structured, cohort-based employment support programme. 26 weeks of active delivery. Seven sequential phases. Tracking to week 48. Cohorts of up to twelve. Two named practitioners per cohort, present from session one to graduation wherever possible. Outcomes designed around DWP style outcome measures, evidenced through employer confirmation, payslips and trading evidence, and HMRC data where access is agreed.
Target population: Women experiencing economic inactivity due to chronic health conditions, trauma histories, or both. Not in acute clinical crisis. Not well served by standard employment provision. Target outcome: 70% of completers in work at 13 weeks. Governance suite and phase specifications available at first contact.
26 weeks active delivery · 7 phases · 48-week outcome tracking · Governance suite prepared
£13,000
Cost per participant
Fully loaded including all delivery and overhead
21
Month modelled payback
Programme cost recovered through public savings
70%
Target at 13 weeks, of completers
Of completers, a target
26
Weeks of active delivery
With outcome tracking continuing to 48 weeks
Why This Programme Exists
What Makes This Different
Trauma and chronic illness are treated as equally real. For a woman with a trauma history, the programme builds nervous system safety first. For a woman living with chronic illness, it builds pacing, energy management and flare planning into her working life. For many women it is both, and the programme holds both from the first session to graduation.
To our knowledge, few programmes in this commissioning space combine trauma informed practice, chronic illness support and structured employment delivery in a single design. Standard provision has not worked for many women in this population. This programme is designed around why.
Therapy can help women understand why they feel stuck. The women TRIUMPH RECLAIM serves have often already done that work. They have the insight, the self-awareness, the language for what happened to them. What they do not yet have is a programme precise enough, long enough, and human enough to take that understanding and turn it into a life they can actually sustain.
TRIUMPH RECLAIM was not adapted from existing provision. It was built from the ground up for this population, by two Programme Directors who have lived versions of this journey themselves, grounded in a convergent body of evidence from trauma science, employment support research, and public health policy.
Seven sequential phases each create the condition the next phase requires. The programme cannot be shortened without compromising outcome integrity. That is not a programme preference. It is a design position.
By the end of the programme, the aim is that she is not the same woman who walked in.
The Seven Phases of RECLAIM
The Architecture of Lasting Change
R
Readiness
Psychological safety and trauma-informed assessment
E
Empowerment
Identity, narrative, and self-understanding
C
Capacity
Energy management and sustainable foundations
L
Life and Career Design
Skills development and employment planning
A
Aspiration
Supported job searching and employer engagement
I
Integration
In-work support and workplace navigation
M
Mastery
Self-direction, future planning, sustained achievement
Each phase creates the condition the next phase requires. The sequence is not arbitrary. It is the architecture of genuine, lasting change.
For Commissioners
Everything you need for due diligence.
A prepared governance suite, a transparent cost model, phase specifications, outcomes framework, theory of change and cost analysis. All available at the scoping call.
Cohort places are capped at twelve.
For Referral Partners
Know who to refer, and how.
Clear eligibility criteria, a safe and supported referral process, and a programme designed so that referrals are not left without a response.
Your client will be held carefully from the very first session.
For Participants
You are in the right place. You always were.
This programme was built for women who have been let down by provision that was never designed for them. TRIUMPH RECLAIM is different.
Every phase. Every session. Designed around what you actually need.
Grounded in Research
What the Evidence Says
When safety comes first, everything else becomes possible.
Two strands of evidence, one design. The research on trauma explains why the programme starts with safety. The research on chronic illness explains why it builds sustainable working patterns and stays beside her after she starts work.
SAMHSA's guidance on trauma informed approaches names safety as the first of six key principles.
SAMHSA, 2014
TUC analysis found that 1.54 million economically inactive women gave long term sickness as their reason, up 48% in five years and the highest number on record.
TUC, May 2024
Permanent exit is not inevitable, and may often reflect insufficient support at the right time.
A systematic review found that higher relational continuity of care may be linked to better outcomes for people with serious mental illness.
Engström and colleagues, BMC Psychiatry, 2023
The same practitioners, wherever possible, present throughout. That is what the research suggests.
A review of supported employment found that ongoing support was described as vital for finding and keeping work, although results varied.
Patmisari and colleagues, PLOS ONE, 2024
Support that stays. The programme does not end at job entry. It ends at mastery.
The People Behind the Programme
Built by Women Who Understand
Victoria Taylor
Co-Creator and Programme Director · Trauma Specialism
CPD Accredited Trauma Specialist · APT Accredited Trauma Informed Practitioner · NLP Practitioner · Diploma in Safeguarding Adults and Children (Levels 1 to 4)
Victoria survived complex trauma, rebuilt her life from the ground up, and then trained professionally so she could turn that journey into a methodology that changes other women's lives. She co-built the entire RECLAIM framework alongside Stephanie.
This programme was not built from study alone. It was built from lived experience, and a way through.
Read Victoria's full profile →
Stephanie Brown
Co-Creator and Programme Director · Chronic Illness Specialism
MSc HR Management · CIPD · QLS Level 7 Life Coach · NLP Practitioner · PTTLS · IPHM Holistic Mental Wellness Practitioner · Diploma in Safeguarding Adults and Children (Levels 1 to 4) · MHFA Level 3
Stephanie has lived with chronic illness for twenty years while building a professional career. She has shown in her own working life that chronic illness does not mean choosing between your health and your future. She leads the programme's energy management, pacing and workplace sustainability content, and she built it so that no woman has to create those tools alone, as she did.
Twenty years of professional life alongside chronic illness. The programme reflects everything that journey required.
Read Stephanie's full profile →The Programme Directors
Two Directors. Two Specialisms. One Complete Programme.
Victoria Taylor
Trauma Specialism
Psychological safety, nervous system regulation, identity reconstruction, and programme governance. Victoria holds the trauma strand of the programme from Phase R through to Mastery.
Stephanie Brown
Chronic Illness Specialism
Energy management, workplace sustainability, employment systems, and quality assurance. Stephanie holds the chronic illness and vocational strand from Phase C through to sustained employment.
Both are equal Co-Creators and Co-Founders of Mindset + Mastery. Victoria holds the trauma specialism and Stephanie holds the chronic illness specialism. Both strands run through every phase, because a woman's experience is rarely just one thing.
The first step is a conversation. The scoping call is thirty minutes.
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TRIUMPH RECLAIM is a programme by Mindset + Mastery, founded by Victoria Taylor and Stephanie Brown. We work with women experiencing economic inactivity due to chronic illness, trauma, or both.
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Phone: 020 8058 4508
TRIUMPH RECLAIM is a structured employment support programme delivered by Mindset + Mastery Ltd. It is not a regulated health or therapeutic service and does not constitute clinical treatment.
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