Recovery Code X is a Community Interest Company providing Complex PTSD recovery programmes

Transforming Lives Through Peer Support

Healing journeys for those with Complex PTSD.

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Mental Health Care Awards 2024

WINNER - MOST DEDICATED COMPLEX PTSD

SURVIVOR SUPPORT CIC - 2026

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End Of An Era

Recovery Code X Announces Closure

“Insufficient funding to cover the full cost of running professional services produced an untenable situation”

Founder, Analisa Borneo (watch video announcement)

Bedford, UK – June 18th 2026. Recovery Code X is today announcing the end of an era as it prepares to close its doors.

In a poignant video message to the public, founder and managing director, Analisa Borneo says:

‘After 7 years of supporting women with Complex PTSD through our peer-led therapeutic programmes, we are calling it a day.

She continues:

‘Insufficient funding to cover the full cost of running professional services produced an untenable situation. Our team of exceptionally dedicated volunteers helped us keep going. But this model is not a solution for long-term growth, and nor is it ethical for an organisation that prides itself on supporting survivors experiencing the long-term effects of exploitation and abuse.’

The decision to close comes just months after the organisation won a national award for its ‘outstanding and dedicated support’ to survivors with Complex PTSD (Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder). Participant feedback and testimonials add weight to the validity of Recovery Code X’s innovative approach – recognising the value of facilitators with lived experience of recovery

The Survivors Hub Project evolved from a face-to-face holistic peer support group in 2019 to an online therapeutic service combining psychology, counselling and shamanic approaches for psycho-education and trauma recovery

Throughout the seven years of Recovery Code X, founder Analisa Borneo obtained various qualifications in mental health, counselling and therapies and now has her own private practice in Bedford. The end of an era has come for Recovery Code X, but a new one is just beginning for Analisa at Circle of One, based at the Healing Sanctuary in Ashburnham Road.

Contact Analisa by email to find out more: analisa@circleofone.co.uk or see the website: www.circleofone.co.uk

Team speaks up about closure

This feels like the chrysalis of a

new beginning

During my five years with Recovery Code X I have witnessed the organisation grow in its support for people living with childhood trauma and symptoms of C-PTSD through holistic healing methods. I have also greatly valued the dedication of my esteemed colleague Analisa, along with team members such as Polina, Melanie, Steffen, Hilary, and Barry.

Polina, Melanie, and Analisa have delivered award-winning therapeutic programmes, including Chat ‘n’ Chill and Heart2Heart. These programmes have helped participants self-regulate, strengthen their sense of agency, and learn valuable coping skills to support their mental and emotional wellbeing.

I write this with both sadness and gratitude for the memories and skills I will carry forward into the next stage of my journey. Anna, Analisa, this is also a significant moment in your career. Your mission to support vulnerable people experiencing trauma and C-PTSD continues, and this feels like the chrysalis of a new beginning that will gracefully grow into Circle of One Shamanic Counselling.

I wish you all the very best. You have been a truly valued friend and mentor.

With love and light.

Your dear friend and colleague,

Amit Shenmar

Remarkable achievements, lack of government support to blame

I have had the great pleasure and honour to have worked for Recovery Code X CIC for the last few months, concentrating on risk and compliance. Working alongside Analisa and her team, it is very clear how committed they are with offering peer led support to women in the community who are suffering from Complex PTSD due to past trauma and abuse.

The results that Recovery Code X CIC has achieved has been remarkable, and Analisa and her team should be most proud of their achievements, and of the support and help given to their clients over the last 7 years.

So, it is regrettable and with sadness that Analisa has no other option to close down Recovery Code X due to lack of support and commitment from the government bodies and systems that really should be embracing organisations such as this, and all the excellent work that they do.

One would have hoped that Recovery Code X would have received the support and funding to continue with the wonderful service they provide, but the system clearly does not appreciate the work they have done.

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with this organisation and I wish all those connected with Recovery Code X the very best for the future.

With that said, I do know Analisa will be concentrating on developing her private practice as a Shamanic Practitioner with Circle of One, offering services to help people heal and recover from past traumas. I am proud to support this new enterprise.

Barry West

Compliance Manager

An experience I won’t ever forget

It’s been a wonderful experience, and a shame that Recovery Code X can’t be funded the way it needs to be.

It was an honour to be working with Recovery Code X at a time when it was developing. Working alongside Analisa and Amit and the ladies was an experience I won’t ever forget. It was a privilege to work with the ladies and see how much we helped them.

I will miss the work; it was such an innovative programme – trailblazing! We merged contemporary psychology with shamanic wisdom to great effect.

Melanie Tomsett

Survivors Hub Facilitator

Photo by Mark Deg

Empowering CPTSD recovery with peer led therapeutic programmes

At Recovery Code X we provide therapeutic peer led programmes for women living with Complex PTSD resulting from childhood trauma, sexual abuse and exploitation, and domestic abuse. Our group sessions foster healing through connection and validation, empowerment through shared experiences and insight into the neurobiology of trauma.

The Survivors Hub began in 2019 as a project dedicated to running peer-to-peer self-help groups for women who have experienced prolonged, repeated exposure to abuse, be that physical, emotional, psychological, sexual or spiritual, in childhood and adulthood from which there was no perceived avenue of escape. Today it incorporates therapeutic programmes designed and delivered by professionals from a range of disciplines. These include psychology, counselling and holistic approaches that address the individual's unique experiences and needs.

'It is a form of therapy that should be rolled out across the country and considered as treatment on the NHS.'

-Chat 'n' Chill participant

'Thank you both for giving me space to be me.'

- Heart2Heart participant