Khiron Clinics

Khiron Clinics A global center for trauma recovery, recommended by the world's leading trauma experts for delivering cutting-edge nervous system based therapies.

Khiron Clinics is a global center for trauma recovery, earning continuous acclaim from esteemed experts like Bessel Van Der Kolk, Janina Fisher, and Stephen Porges. Our cutting-edge, nervous system-based treatments, administered by clinicians trained by the world's top trauma experts, are available in residential and outpatient settings. Founded by Benjamin Fry, a psychotherapist, author, and entrepreneur, Khiron Clinics was created to share and make accessible the nervous system-based theories and therapies that once saved Benjamin's life. To make our life-saving treatment accessible, Khiron Clinics arranges and covers transport for all international clients. Whether you're exploring treatment options or seeking information on trauma recovery, reach out to us via phone or visit our website for more details.

Wishing you a peaceful and calm Christmas from everyone at Khiron Clinics. The holiday season can be joyful, but it can ...
25/12/2025

Wishing you a peaceful and calm Christmas from everyone at Khiron Clinics. The holiday season can be joyful, but it can also bring stress, busyness, and pressure that trigger thoughts, patterns, and reactions rooted in past experiences. Amid the celebrations, we invite you to prioritise your mental health by embracing imperfection and letting go of the need for a “perfect” day. Take time to rest and recharge, extending kindness both to others and to yourself, and nurturing meaningful connections with family, friends, strangers, nature, or whatever brings you the support you need today.

May this season bring warmth, compassion, and calm to you and your loved ones.

24/12/2025

What is trauma?

In this clip, Ruby Wax puts it beautifully. Trauma is not always the moment you feel wounded. It can be the deeper imprint that stays with you. An open wound at first, and over time, with support and healing, it becomes a scar.

The wound may close, but the memory and the impact can remain. Healing is not about erasing what happened. It is about learning how to live with the remnants, with more safety, compassion, and choice.

At Khiron Clinics, we believe trauma is deeply personal. There is no single definition, and no hierarchy of pain.

We would love to hear from you.
What does trauma mean to you?

Share in the comments, or message us if you would like your response to be featured in our series.

The modern lifestyle is characterised by a constant stream of demands and distractions, leaving little time for self-car...
23/12/2025

The modern lifestyle is characterised by a constant stream of demands and distractions, leaving little time for self-care and relaxation.

For people living with psychological trauma, recovery often requires more than insight or symptom management alone. Trauma affects the nervous system’s ability to regulate, making it harder to feel grounded, safe, and connected. Nature can play a valuable supporting role in this process by offering environments that reduce cognitive load and support physiological regulation without demand or pressure.

Read more about the impact of nature on mental health as well as Khiron Clinics' unique approach to treatment in our most recent blog:

https://bit.ly/4bajFZ8

Shame doesn’t just live in our thoughts; it settles into the body, shaping how we remember, react, and relate to ourselv...
23/12/2025

Shame doesn’t just live in our thoughts; it settles into the body, shaping how we remember, react, and relate to ourselves. When our needs or inner experiences were judged or dismissed, shame became a kind of armour. It protected us from further hurt, but it also cut us off from self-compassion and the belief that change is possible.

We don’t heal shame by pushing through it or talking ourselves out of it. We heal by creating safety in the body, meeting our sensations with curiosity, and reconnecting with the parts of us that learned to hide. Approaches like somatic therapy, parts work, and mindfulness help us do exactly that — gently, and at our own pace, without overwhelming the system.

Shame loses its grip when we feel safe enough to meet ourselves with understanding. And from that place, change becomes possible.

We asked a simple question with a complex answer.What is trauma?In this new series, we are sharing real responses from t...
22/12/2025

We asked a simple question with a complex answer.

What is trauma?

In this new series, we are sharing real responses from the public to help bust myths and destigmatise trauma.

There is no single definition. No hierarchy. No right or wrong way to experience it.

What does trauma mean to you?

If you would like to share your perspective, respond in the comments or send us a message. Selected responses may be shared as part of this series.

Thank you to for this contribution.

21/12/2025

Today marks the solstice. From here, the days slowly begin to get longer.

This moment can bring mixed feelings. Relief that the longest night has passed, and also the intimidating sense of facing a new year again. For many, it can feel a bit like getting out of bed on a difficult day. Not dramatic, just quietly hard.

This year, instead of comparing yourself to what others appear to have achieved, especially when they weren’t carrying the backpack you’re carrying, try focusing on your own wins. We wouldn’t judge two marathon runners by the same finish time if one of them was carrying a 30kg backpack. Context matters.

So give yourself a break. Be kind to yourself. Celebrate what counts as a win for you.

That might be getting dressed. Going for a walk. Leaving the house to go to the shops. Reaching out to a friend. Reading a few pages of a book. Cooking a meal. These are real wins. They matter.

At Khiron, we understand how tough life can be, especially when you’re carrying trauma. You don’t need to feel ashamed, and you don’t have to go through it alone.

18/12/2025

If you’ve ever tried to think your way out of anxiety and it didn’t work you’re not doing it wrong.

Your thinking brain only comes back online once your nervous system feels safe.
Regulation happens through sensation first, not logic.

That’s why simple body-based practices can be so powerful:
humming, singing, gargling water, feeling vibration in the throat, or tuning into gut sensations. These gently stimulate the vagus nerve and help the body shift out of survival mode.

It’s also why anxiety often shows up in the body… especially digestion.
Your nervous system and body are always in conversation.

Sensation is the doorway to calm.
The mind follows.

At Khiron Clinics, this is why trauma treatment works with both the body and the mind.

What helps you feel safe and regulated?
Is there a song, a sound, or a sensation that works for you?

When we’re caught in functional freeze or quiet overwhelm, it can be the most manageable practices that help us come bac...
17/12/2025

When we’re caught in functional freeze or quiet overwhelm, it can be the most manageable practices that help us come back into ourselves—actions that feel possible amidst the inner chaos, overstimulation or feeling of frozen, stuck overload.

You don’t have to “snap out of it” or push through. You just need moments of contact with your body, moments that remind your system it’s safe to move from survival to engagement.

Little check-ins repeated throughout the day can shift more than we realise and gradually train the brain and body, making the shift more accessible and manageable over time.

When most people think of therapy, they imagine a therapist asking you to sift through childhood memories. But insight a...
11/12/2025

When most people think of therapy, they imagine a therapist asking you to sift through childhood memories. But insight alone doesn’t create lasting change. We have to practice new ways of responding, over and over, to retrain a nervous system that learned to survive.

Narratives can keep us looping in the same story, whereas paying attention to the body creates openings that talking alone can’t reach.

Talk therapy has its limitations, especially when the body is still bracing for old threats, which is why safety will always be more important than insight.

Trauma shapes the nervous system, influencing how we respond to stress and relate to others. Hyperarousal is a heightene...
09/12/2025

Trauma shapes the nervous system, influencing how we respond to stress and relate to others. Hyperarousal is a heightened state of alert, causing anxiety, panic, and sleeplessness, while hypoarousal is a shutdown state, producing numbness, dissociation, or low energy. Both are survival strategies, not personal failings. In this blog we explore the window of tolerance and how trauma narrows our capacity to stay regulated.

We also detail grounding techniques, somatic practices, and therapeutic approaches that can help expand it. Recognising triggers, engaging the body, and learning self-regulation strategies are all key steps toward healing and reclaiming safety, presence, and connection.

Learn more in our most recent blog, here: https://bit.ly/44Qb1en

The amygdala is the brain’s threat-detection centre, and trauma can reshape how it responds to the world. After overwhel...
08/12/2025

The amygdala is the brain’s threat-detection centre, and trauma can reshape how it responds to the world. After overwhelming experiences, the amygdala becomes hypersensitive, reacting with defence to cues that were once harmless. A sound, a look, a sudden movement—anything can feel like danger.

This isn’t irrationality or overreacting; it’s a nervous system trained by past threat. A hyperactive amygdala keeps the body on alert, heightening fear, anxiety, and startle responses, and making it harder to sense what’s truly safe.

Understanding this helps us meet these reactions with compassion instead of judgement because the brain is doing what it learned to do to survive. From there a path forward can be built with an awareness of the foundations of distress.

Many behaviours we label as “addiction” or “disorder” began as intelligent survival strategies. When we didn’t receive t...
07/12/2025

Many behaviours we label as “addiction” or “disorder” began as intelligent survival strategies. When we didn’t receive the soothing, co-regulation, or emotional safety we needed as children, the nervous system learned to find relief wherever it could. Food, substances, work, scrolling, achievement, or emotional withdrawal aren’t random choices—they’re familiar pathways the body built to manage overwhelm and stay afloat.

Real change doesn’t come from shaming or suppressing these behaviours, but from understanding the dysregulated nervous system underneath them. When we offer the body the safety, attunement, and regulation it once lacked, the need for those old strategies naturally softens. Change unfolds from giving the nervous system what it was missing, not simply taking things away.

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Khiron Clinic opened in November 2018 as a higher level of care for Khiron House. It provides 24/7 care in a courtyard setting for a small number of patients with bespoke recovery programmes. The treatment methodology is inspired by the work of Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Janina Fisher and Daniel Siegel, and offers the latest in neurobiologically informed therapeutic innovation and containment.

Our clinical staff are specialists in trauma-related disorders including depression; anxiety; PTSD; personality disorders; ADHD; OCD; bipolar disorder; and dissociative disorders. They are somatically as well as clinically trained to deliver nervous-system referencing treatment within the highest standards of residential care. Khiron Clinic can be a suitable alternative to hospital admission, progressing to treatment at Khiron House