About Arkesie

A place to come home to yourself.

Most of us didn’t grow up in safe homes. Not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually.
We grew up attuned to danger, starved of recognition, learning to shape-shift, to serve, to survive.

Arkesie was born from the aching absence of what should have been there. It’s not a service. It’s not a brand. It’s the home we should’ve had — reimagined and rebuilt.

Founded by consultant psychotherapist Jimi Katsis, Arkesie is the culmination of 35 years walking beside survivors of childhood trauma. Not the headline-grabbing kind — the invisible kind.
The slow-burn neglect. The chronic emotional misattunement.The soul starvation that leaves you brilliant, capable, and utterly alone inside.

Jimi’s work is not about symptom management. It’s about soul retrieval.
And Arkesie is the vessel for that work to reach further, deeper, and last longer.

What Arkesie Stands For

We are not here to diagnose you, fix you, or brand you with a pathology.
We are here to witness, recognise, and restore you to yourself.

We believe:

  • Trauma survivors don’t need more coping strategies. They need re-rooting.

  • Healing is not a mindset. It’s a process of nourishment, grief, and reorientation.

  • Transformation happens in relationship — with self, others, and something greater.

  • You do not need to become someone new. You need to become someone true.

What We Offer

Arkesie is a hub, a haven, and a movement.

  • A free support line for trauma survivors and struggling parents

  • Email triage and signposting for those lost in systems and self-doubt

  • Handouts, guides, and trainings for professionals and parents alike

  • The Restart Programme — a 5-stage journey from survival to authenticity

  • ArkesiePeople — global grassroots groups rooted in shared food, shared stories, and structured healing

  • The Arkesie Centre in Cyprus — a place of embodied rest and replanting

  • Advocacy for trauma survivors in every sphere of life: medical, legal, educational

  • Events, talks and media to bring this conversation into the public square

Everything we do is guided by the same thread:
deep attunement, fierce protection, and sacred reclamation.

Why the Name?

Arkesie is drawn from the ancient.
A whisper of arkē — origin, beginning.
And kē, the soul.
Together: the place where the soul begins again.

This isn’t branding. It’s invocation.

Who Is It For?

Arkesie exists for:

  • Adults carrying the weight of unresolved childhood trauma

  • Parents struggling to raise emotionally complex or neurodivergent children

  • Professionals who feel helpless in the face of others’ pain

  • Helpers, healers, exiles, empaths

  • Anyone who has ever said: I feel like something in me never got to live.

This is Arkesie.
A place to rest. To remember. To re-emerge whole.

– Jimi D Katsis