Support for hoarding behaviours
Our Services
Support Groups
Therapeutic In-home Support
Therapeutic In-home Support
Free to access support groups for people with hoarding behaviours happening across Worcestershire.
Worcester and Evesham group established.
Kidderminster group starting in September 2025.
Family and Friends support group is also in development
Please use the contact us page if you would like more information or would like to attend the group.
Therapeutic In-home Support
Therapeutic In-home Support
Therapeutic In-home Support
Help and support in your own home; integrated counselling and coaching alongside declutteering and sorting. Multiple options of support available according to your needs. We take time to understand your journey and design a plan of support with you and any organisations that may be supporting you.
Download our initial enquiry form or complete the contact us page.
Training
Therapeutic In-home Support
Training
Multiple levels of training available for professionals and community organisations from bitesize sessions ideal for team meetings, half-day courses on understanding Hoarding behaviours and our very own bespoke training to become a "Beyond The Hoard Champion"
Training sessions for family and friends.
Courses for people who have hoarding behaviours.
Use the contact us page to find out more details
Meet the Team
Christine Searl BSc, DipHE
CEO and Founding Director of Beyond the Hoard CIC
Christine Searl is a neuro-divergent, hoarding practitioner with lived-experience from childhood, of a parent with hoarding behaviours. She has a degree in psychology and sociology, extensive training and experience in housing and adult social care providing mental health outreach.
Christine has over 30 years’ experience in Adult Health and Social Care, Housing and Education. Working with clients who have their own lived experience of physical and mental illness, neurodivergence, learning differences, trauma and bereavement. She uses training in psychology, motivational interviewing, mental health and counselling skills to work in a person-centred holistic way, collaboratively working together with client and those in their support circle.
Recent roles have included managing a team of Experts by Lived Experience working within NHS Community Mental Health Transformation. Most recently Christine was a Hoarding Coordinator for Clouds End CIC in Birmingham.
Christine is trained to design and deliver training and workshops, having delivered these to voluntary and community sector organisations as well as statutory agencies over her extensive career.
Carol Christmas BSc, MBA
Director of Beyond The Hoard CIC
Carol is an NLP practitioner, Master and Life Coach, with an MBA and sings alto. Her degree in zoology and psychology led to scientific editing, 14 years in government publishing plus secondments that included merging two government agencies – interspersed with Italian trips. Bereavement, career break, NLP training break and walking the Camino with teenagers & tents (twice!) led to a 5-year charity project evaluating the impact of coaching carers of cancer patients.
She has experience of coaching people facing transitions in life, including cancer patients on the Health Creation programme and family members supporting relatives with dementia. A paid job recruiting volunteers at Pershore Volunteer Centre led to an interest in volunteering as a Trustee at Pershore Youth Centre, where she wrote successful funding bids and met Christine!
Then volunteered in a charity shop stockroom and at Pershore Wellbeing Hub.
She is enjoying refocussing as a Director of Beyond the Hoard CIC.