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Simon Bratt
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Join date: Jul 9, 2025
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Simon Bratt has worked at the frontline of NHS crisis teams, forensic units, and homelessness outreach for over 20 years. He has applied that experience to his doctoral research, designing practical, justice-oriented solutions. His Layered Care Model addresses the repeated failures of "dual diagnosis" services, offering an approach that honours pain rather than pathologizing it.
Simon now leads Layered Care, a consultancy and newsletter that helps services embed trauma-informed, context-driven, and humane practices into everyday operations. From structural reform to frontline training, his work seamlessly blends theory and practice, ensuring that change is both meaningful and actionable.
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Oct 12, 2025 ∙ 4 min
The System Isn't Broken – It's Working As Designed
Integrated care keeps failing people with co‑existing mental health and substance use needs—not by accident, but by design. Simon Bratt outlines a practical, trauma‑informed model to change that.
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Jul 4, 2025 ∙ 7 min
Let’s Start A New Conversation: What if the Entire Treatment Conversation is Built on Incorrect Foundations?
It sounds radical, but what if substance use isn’t a disorder but a survival strategy for coping with trauma, poverty, or pain? The real issue isn’t in the brain or body but what’s happened to and around them. Recovery doesn’t require another diagnosis, but rather understanding, support, and meeting people where they are. Are we ready to have that conversation?
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