A trauma-informed recovery space for those who have spent their lives serving others.
A trauma-informed recovery space for those who have spent their lives serving others.
Welcome to Recovery HQ
Our Vision
Recovery HQ was created to meet a need that often goes unspoken.
For those who have lived in high-stress, high-responsibility roles - service, emergency response, leadership, caregiving - the body doesn’t always switch off just because the job ends.
Recovery isn’t about pushing harder, doing more, or chasing intensity.
It’s about safety, regulation and learning how to come back into the body - slowly and intentionally.
It's about life after the uniform comes off.
Recovery HQ exists for people who:
• Have spent years serving others and are now feeling the cost
• Live with chronic stress, burnout, PTSD, or nervous system overload
• Want recovery that is grounded, guided, and respectful of their limits
• Are seeking depth and safety - not quick fixes or adrenaline hits
This space is designed to meet you where you are and give you a practical, daily routine to follow that helps you feel like you can face each day again, while being fully supported.
At Recovery HQ, everything begins with the nervous system.
Our work is:
• Trauma-informed, not trend-driven
• Guided and intentional — never forced
• Focused on regulation before resilience
• Built around lived experience, not theory
• Designed to support long-term recovery, not short-term relief
We believe recovery happens when the body feels safe enough to let go.
Meet the founders
Recovery HQ was founded by Jess and Matt.
Recovery HQ was founded by Jess and Matt - born from lived experience, service and the long road back to regulation and wellbeing.
Matt spent years in frontline emergency service, operating in high-pressure, high-risk environments where the nervous system is trained to stay alert, responsive, and ready at all times. Over time, the cumulative impact of stress and trauma became impossible to ignore. Receiving a National Emergency medal for his and the crews work in Black Summer - Matt was medically discharged with PTSD and has been on a journey since - to find life again beyond the uniform.
Jess has spent her life supporting others through health, movement, and recovery-based work. As both a practitioner and a partner walking alongside someone navigating PTSD and burnout, she saw firsthand how deeply the body holds stress - and how limited many recovery options are for people who need safety, not stimulation.
Together, they recognised a gap.
Many recovery spaces focus on intensity, performance, or surface-level relief. What was missing was a grounded, trauma-informed environment where people could slow down, feel safe in their bodies again and rebuild from the nervous system outward.
Recovery HQ exists because recovery is not a weakness - it is a skill.
And when given the right conditions, the body already knows how to heal.
This space was created to honour those who have spent their lives showing up for others - and to offer a place where they, too, are supported.