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. Learn more about these conditions and how we heal

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

Priming — Early Experiences

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

The Trigger

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

Conditioning

The brain easily learns symptoms and other things are dangerous when we feel fear or helplessness. These pathways strengthen through repetition.

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.

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.

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

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 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 relearn that sensations, daily life, and the environment are safe, so the brain stops creating symptoms.

Emotional Awareness & Expression

Suppressed emotions send “danger” signals to the brain and we tense our body. Feeling them safely teaches your body, “This too can be felt.”

Cognitive Reframing

Recognising fear-based thought patterns and beliefs, and softening them, helps calm the brain’s predictive threat system and helps your symptoms heal

A brain healing from chronic pain and chronic illness

Mindfulness & Self-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.

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

Success Stories

Discover success Stories

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What Are Neuroplastic Conditions?

Conditions we successfully work with:

The Befriend Approach

Your Symptoms Are Real, and Protective

The PathInto and Out of Sensitisation

Priming — Early Experiences

The Trigger

Conditioning

Sensitisation

The Chronic Cycle

Retraining, Rest & Recovery

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Priming Early Experiences

Befriend’s Successful Approach to Recovery

Education & Safety

Somatic Safety And Brain Re-Training

Emotional Awareness & Expression

Cognitive Reframing

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion

Relational & Environmental Safety

Success Stories

What makes Befriend different?

What we offer

One to one

Community

Microdosing

Our Community Commitment. ‍Healing Should Never Be Behind a Paywall of Privilege.

Eight Modules Of Mind-Body Practice

Choose your path

How We Teach and Practice

Healing A System That Learned to Protect

Articles

How To Support A Loved One In Recovery

Adult Children of Narcissistic And Dysfunctional Parents: Healing Trauma and Chronic Illness

Overfunctioning, Attachment & Chronic Illness

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The Path
Into and Out of Sensitisation

Our Community Commitment.
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Healing Should Never Be Behind a Paywall of Privilege.