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Welcome to Befriend, a cutting edge neuroplasticity based approach to chronic fatigue treatment, chronic pain, burnout, anxiety treatment, and trauma healing.

Welcome to Befriend, a cutting edge neuroplasticity based approach to chronic  

fatigue treatment, chronic pain, burnout, anxiety treatment, and trauma healing.

Infections, viruses, injuries, toxic exposure or trauma can create changes in the brain leading to a phenomenon called sensitisation, where our brain’s threat response is consistently triggered, causing severe symptoms. We use a gentle, science-backed approach to help you retrain your brain, calm the alarm system, and restore balance to your body and mind.

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What Are Neuroplastic Conditions?

Neuroplastic conditions, also called central sensitisation, TMS, mind-body syndromes; are real physical symptoms caused by changes in the brain and nervous system, rather than by ongoing structural damage. They often happen after illness, injury, environmental exposure, chronic stressor, or trauma. Our system can easily get stuck in a chronic state of alarm, causing body wide often very severe symptoms, until we learn how to heal this cycle.

Common examples include:
  • Chronic pain
  • Chronic fatigue (CFS/ME)
  • IBS and gut issues
  • Anxiety and panic
  • Migraines
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Environmental, food, or mould sensitivities
  • Post exertion malaise (PEM)
  • POTS syndrome
  • Chronic infections like EBV/Lyme disease
  • Brain fog or dizziness
  • Long COVID and post viral conditins
  • Multiple chemical sensitivity
  • Skin Issues that do not resolve
  • Burnout
  • Interstitial Cystitis
  • Loss of resilience
  • Trauma/cPTSD

At Befriend, we specialise in helping people restore the brain and body’s natural capacity for safety and healing.

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Conditions we successfully work with:

Chronic fatigue (CFS/ME)
Post exertion malaise
Anxiety
Depression
Chronic Pain
Environmental Sensitivities
Fibromyalgia
Burnout
POTS

Post Viral Syndromes
Often in fight/flight/freeze
Trauma/CPTSD
Digestive issues/IBS
Poor self-relationship
Environmental illnesses
Loss of resilience
Interstitial Cystitis
Long COVID

Many chronic conditions like chronic pain, chronic fatigue, sensitivities, or post-viral symptoms, are now understood as neuroplastic or central sensitization conditions. This means that the brain’s alarm system has learned to stay in protection mode, continuing to send signals to the body that cause symptoms.

These symptoms are real, but you are not broken. They are the result of the brain protecting you too well. This is reversible. Learn how these develop and heal here

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The Befriend Approach

Through neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to change, you will learn gentle, evidence-based practices to weave into daily life (not make healing full time!) that calm the alarm system of the brain and restores health to the body. There is not one way or only way to heal; we will support you to find what works for unique you.

Befriend addresses all layers of your recovery a little at a time:

·       🧠 Brain – rewiring protective neural pathways that cause symptoms                       

·       🫀 Heart – learning to trust the body can heal without force

·       💬 Mind – shifting patterns of fear, over-control, emotional suppression, and self-criticism

·       🌿 Body – healing physiological stress responses to symptoms and life

·       🌍 Environment – building routines that support our body to repair

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Our affordable community offers time, space, and expert guidance to help you return home to health at the pace of trust, not pressure or perfection. True healing isn’t a quick fix, it’s a neuroplastic process. By gently retraining your brain and healing your nervous system, your body can shift from protection into repair; restoring balance, energy, and health from within.

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Your Symptoms Are Real, and Protective

The amygdala, an almond shaped structure in the limbic system of the brain, is your internal alarm. It constantly evaluates your body and surroundings for danger.

When it senses threat; whether physical (like infection) or emotional (like rejection or loss), it triggers an alarm (your stress response). Usually after the danger is passed, this alarm switches off and the body goes into a state of rest and repair. Sometimes, after trauma, stress, or illness, it does not get the 'all clear' and remains on high alert. When it continues to send signals of danger, we notice chronic fatigue, brain fog, chronic pain, and/or other often very severe symptoms that do not resolve on their own.

“Your symptoms aren’t in your head. They are in your nervous system’s memory.”

In a fast-paced, overstimulated world, it’s easy for our system to become overloaded and stuck in a state of protection; creating pain, exhaustion, anxiety, and sensitivity. This is reversible. It is not your fault or a weakness.

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The Path
Into and Out of Sensitisation

The same neuroplasticity that created the symptoms can unlearn them. You have 86 billion neurons that can be gently directed to work for you in new ways

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Priming — Early Experiences

Childhood stress can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity. Or innate traits like sensitivity, ADHD.

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The Trigger

An infection, injury, time of stress, emotional trigger, environmental exposure, or trauma, activates protective pathways. Our alarm gets stuck on.

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Conditioning

The brain easily learns symptoms and other things are dangerous when we feel fear, and when we believe something is structurally wrong. These pathways strengthen through repetition.

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Sensitisation

The nervous system becomes hyper-reactive — even to neutral stimuli like food, movement, or sound. The more it practices these responses, the better it gets.

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The Chronic Cycle

Avoidance, hypervigilance, focusing on symptoms with fear, over analysis, helplessness, pushing through, perfectionism, and self-blame keeps the system on alert feeling unsafe. Striving to “heal faster” can reinforce the loop.

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Retraining, Rest & Recovery

Through gentle education, compassion, getting to know ourselves, emotional regulation, retraining the brain, and safe somatic re-engagement, the brain learns: “I am safe now.” and symptoms melt away

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

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Priming Early Experiences

Childhood stress, neglect, or inconsistency can program the brain toward hypervigilance; laying groundwork for later sensitivity.

Befriend’s Successful Approach to Recovery

At Befriend, we teach you to listen to your body’s intelligence, not control it. Our approach integrates neuroscience, brain re-training, somatic therapy, and depth psychology, in simple practices that will shape your brain to heal your body. You don’t need to fight, fix, achieve, or over regulate to heal. Your body is intelligent, and will respond to gentle consistent care.

Education & Safety

Understanding from sound research that symptoms are 100% real, but do not mean we are damaged, and they are reversible; reduces fear and restores trust in your body. Learn how thousands of other people like you have healed

Somatic Safety And Brain Re-Training

Gentle practices tailored to you, help the brain and boy relearn that sensations, daily life, and the environment are safe, so the brain stops creating symptoms and the body set repairs

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Emotional Awareness & Trauma Recovery

Suppressed emotions send “danger” signals to the brain and we tense our body. Feeling them safely teaches your body, “This too can be felt.” Getting in touch with our needs helps us build a sustainable life after recovery

Somatic Internal Family Systems

How your personality patterns function in your life. These can be linked with how we learned to stay connected and safe when young (attachment style). They also encompass gifts and innate traits like high sensitivity (HSP) or autism (ASD). All parts are welcome.

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Mindfulness, Acceptance & Compassion

Cultivate presence over performance, and reconnect to innate dignity and worth; the foundation of sustainable healing. You do not need to earn or achieve your recovery. Life does not ned to be a constant struggle when we master these practices.

Relational & Environmental Safety

Connection is the greatest regulator of the nervous system and signals safety to the brain and cells. We encourage laughter in our community, along with sharing pets and daily life beauty in our discussion spaces. Recovery should have fun and joy in too!

Success Stories

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Adam
41, London

The work I did with Nadia changed my life. My health is in a better place than it ever was even though I have been through a really difficult few years.

Janani
28, UK

I am very grateful to have worked with Nadia in my recovery journey.

Stephanie
VA

Nadia is a brilliant, one-of-a-kind human!

Maria
43, MACOMB

I quite simply don’t know what I would have done, or where I’d be, without her.

Katherine
54, SANTA BARBARA

In the course of working with Nadia I have stopped seeing limitations or feeling overwhelm.

Kelsey
40, TORONTO

It is constant work but I feel for the first time in my life I have the freedom to be exactly who I want to be and create the life of my dreams.

Anne-Lacy
37, LONDON

Nadia’s support and guidance has brought me back to life in every sense of the phrase, and I’m now more vital than I’ve ever been.

Yuri
37, LOS ANGELES

Within two months my results were exponentially more than they had been doing 8 months of practicing alone.

Melissa
33

The single most important step in my recovery has been my introduction to Nadia.

Rachel
48, LONDON

Nadia has been a godsend!

Alex
33, PORTLAND

Her in-depth knowledge of trauma, and how this interacts with chronic illness, was life-changing for me to understand.

Sarah
23, LOS ANGELES

Nadia is without a doubt the reason I am recovering now.

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What makes Befriend different?

Biopsychosocial Approach

At Befriend, we work at the root — addressing how biology, emotions, environment, and meaning shape the body’s state of safety. Healing happens when the whole system is included.

Compassion Based

You do not ned to fight, fix, or achieve your way to recovery. Very often we take our ingrained patterns of over functioning and pushing though into our recovery and wonder why we feel worse. We teach you to approach yourself with respect, curiosity and kindness.

Individualised Practices To Suit Unique You

Our work blends neuroscience, somatic practice, and compassion-based education — no prescriptive hacks, just genuine healing.

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What we offer

One to one

Work with Nadia or an affiliated practitioner for tailored expert support for chronic fatigue treatment, burnout, anxiety, life transitions, stress and trauma based conditions. Mentoring available for professionals.

For Befriend Community Members
Brainspotting
Compassion and resilience based
Burnout and chronic illness
Internal Family Systems
Brain retraining
Adept at working with HSP’s and cptsd
Mentoring for coaches and therapists
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Community

Learn simple, evidence-based skills for healing trauma, chronic illness and chronic fatigue treatment. No achievement focus or pressure, and plenty of support.

Low-cost annual membership
8 cumulative mind body skills classes
Education, skills, and simple practices
Free eBooks and meditations
On demand learning and live classes
Compatible with all other programs
Monthly visiting experts
Created by highly sensitive people (HSP’s) for HSP’s and suitable for cptsd.
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Microdosing

A trauma informed, evidence based microdosing masterclass grounded in reverence for the wisdom of nature. Free access to a community discussion space.

3 hours of learning
Audio and video format
Downloadable resources
80-page microdosing journal
Meditations
Respecting nature’s wisdom
Trauma informed psychoeducation
Risk reduction model for safety
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Our Community Commitment.
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Healing Should Never Be Behind a Paywall of Privilege.

Our low-cost membership is designed for accessibility and integrity. We believe recovery is a collective responsibility; a way to heal not just individual bodies, but our collective need for connection. You will be guided by compassionate practitioners who live this work and teach from experience, not hierarchy.

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Eight Modules Of Mind-Body Practice

We educate first so that you know you are not broken and can heal. Then we teach simple evidence-based mind-body practices that have empowered hundreds of people we work with to self-heal in their daily lives.

Choose your path

You can do each class in the order they are set or choose your own adventure. Not everyone needs everything. We will help you find what feels good to you. Simple daily practices, over time, change lives.

How We Teach and Practice

We offer self-paced online learning, live classes ,classes from visiting experts, and spaces to connect with others like you. We encourage humour, play and no achievement focus.

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Healing A System That Learned to Protect

Neuroplastic conditions are not malfunctions; they are overlearned protection mechanisms. You are not broken, so recovery is not about forcing or fixing. It’s about allowing health, safety, connection, and rhythm to return, a day at a time. Healing is not a solo sport. We can empower eachother better together. We look forward to welcoming you

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Articles

Our articles are designed to educate and empower you and are rooted in our biopsychosocialspiritual approach to health and growth. Psychoeducation is an evidence-based part of recovery.

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Nadia Georgiou - Somatic Therapist & Educator

HeartMath for Chronic Fatigue, Trauma & Chronic Pain. Compassionate Brain Retraining

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Min read
December 4, 2025

How Heart Coherence Rewires Stress Patterns and Supports Neuroplastic Healing

Nadia Georgiou - Somatic Therapist & Educator

The Quiet Risk of Over-Validating Pain

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Min read
November 25, 2025

In a well-intentioned effort to heal trauma, have some people forgotten to help people grow beyond it? True peace and resilience come not from endless validation, but from engaging with life as it really is; dynamic, uncertain, and deeply human.

Nadia Georgiou - Somatic Therapist & Educator

Neuroscience of Gratitude: Recovery from Chronic Pain and Fatigue Through Brain Rewiring

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Min read
November 24, 2025

How Gratitude Rewires the Brain for Chronic Pain and Fatigue Recovery: Evidence-Based Strategies for Neuroplastic Healing and Emotional Resilience

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