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Private mental health provision steps up in Hull as pandemic struggles take their toll

Award-winning Fortis Therapy is now expanding after crossing the Humber to initial premises

Alexis Powell-Howard, founding director of Fortis Therapy and Training.(Image: Elizabeth Clark / Elizabeth Rose Photogrpahy)

Mental health and emotional wellbeing provider Fortis Therapy is expanding in Hull as a result of an increasing demand for its services.

The award-winning business, launched in Grimsby, is taking on additional space and recruiting for more therapists as it moves into the Louis Pearlman Centre.

Managing director Alexis Powell-Howard said: “To be in a position to expand after the events of the last 18-months is a bittersweet achievement for us.

“For the business of course the growth is fantastic news, but in the wider community – both locally and across the 海角视频 – it just means that even more people are struggling.

“As each month of the pandemic passed, we received more and more enquiries from individuals – men, women, and children - schools and businesses, all getting in touch because they needed our support.

“The challenges that Covid-19 has presented all of us with have profoundly affected everyone, at every age, in every circumstance, and we are still seeing the demand for services, for help, increasing.

Alexis Powell-Howard, founding director of Fortis Therapy and Training.(Image: Elizabeth Clark / Elizabeth Rose Photogrpahy)

“Not only are we pleased to be able to open a new space in Hull, a more central and accessible space at that, but we are also recruiting for more therapists. The demand is there, people need our help, and we need experienced therapists to join us to be able to deliver it, maintaining our award-winning customer service experience.”

Fortis was after the former M&S trainee found support lacking after her own trauma - a road accident that nearly took her life - and went on to retrain as a psychotherapist.