Healthcare should not make you relive what you have survived.
A self-certification tool to help you receive trauma-informed care — without telling your whole story.
Healthcare Manual
Private
Give me time to answer.
Remind me I can pause.
Female HCP where possible.
Examinations
Please explain before touching me.
Appointment note
Patient-reported
The provider sees only what the patient chooses to share.
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After what you’ve been through, healthcare can feel unsafe.
A self-certification tool to help you receive trauma-informed care.
What can make healthcare feel unsafe for you?
CertifyMe
Try it — tap one
The problem
The healthcare system was not built with survivors in mind.
Every day, people walk into healthcare appointments carrying trauma that clinicians cannot see. Without the right tools, these experiences remain invisible — leading to missed signals, repeated distress, and disengagement from essential care.
86%
of participants in a 2025 UK study of 42 sexual violence survivors aged 18–29 reported completely or significantly avoiding healthcare
60%
of participants in the same study reported avoiding sexual or reproductive healthcare
1 in 6
of participants reported avoiding healthcare involving intimate care or touch
Hooper L, Meyrick J. "Trauma has an echo." BMJ Open 2025;15:e102181. These figures describe one study of 42 survivors aged 18–29 and are not prevalence estimates for all survivors.
From experience to action
Healthcare can be difficult. Explaining why shouldn't have to be.
"I don't know what to ask for."
"I know what helps."
"I have an appointment coming up."
"These are the things that matter this time."
"I know how this patient would prefer to receive care."
Needs Builder
Patient view
Turn what makes healthcare difficult into practical preferences — without explaining why.
Give me time to answer.
Explain before touching me.
See CertifyMe in action
CertifyMe adapts to the appointment.
Choose an appointment type and see the preferences CertifyMe might surface. This is a synthetic example — not medical advice.
Appointment Prep
Cervical screening
Examinations & touch
Explain before touching me.
Control & consent
Ask permission before each stage.
Healthcare professional
Female HCP where possible.
Control & consent
Agree a pause signal with me.
Examinations & touch
Give me privacy while changing.
Example CertifyMe experience · Synthetic preferences, not medical recommendations
Your Healthcare Manual
Keep the things that help healthcare work better for you — privately in one place.
Your Healthcare Manual is your personal library of communication preferences. Build it once, edit it anytime, and use it to prepare for any appointment.
Your Healthcare Manual stays private.
Nothing is shared until you choose what goes into a specific appointment note. You decide, every time.
Communication
Give me time to answer.
Examinations
Explain before touching me.
Control
Remind me I can pause.
Practitioner
Female HCP where possible.
Support
I may bring someone with me.
Environment
A calm, quiet room helps me feel safe.
Information
Give me information in writing where possible.
Examinations
Give me privacy while changing.
The key privacy interaction
Share what matters. Keep the rest private.
Preparing for an appointment doesn't automatically give a healthcare provider access to your CertifyMe account. You choose what goes into each shared note.
Healthcare Manual
8 preferences · Private
Tap to select up to 3 preferences to share
Appointment note
Patient-reported · 3 preferences
Communication
Give me time to answer.
Examinations & touch
Explain before touching me.
Healthcare professional
Female HCP where possible.
For healthcare providers
Better prepared care starts before the appointment.
CertifyMe gives patients a structured way to communicate selected healthcare needs and preferences before their consultation, helping healthcare professionals arrive better informed.
The information matches exactly — the provider sees only what the patient chose to share.
Jordan Chen
Cervical screening · 14 Oct, 10:30
Before you begin
This patient has shared preferences for their appointment. Patient-reported information — does not replace clinical assessment.
Examinations
Explain before touching me.
Control & consent
Ask permission before each stage.
Control & consent
Patient may need to pause.
Practitioner
Female HCP preferred where possible.
You don't need my whole story
to respect my needs.
Founder's story
Built from something I wished existed.
CertifyMe was born from lived experience. As a survivor navigating the healthcare system, I found myself having to repeat traumatic information at every appointment — to receptionists, nurses, doctors, specialists — with no way to communicate my needs in advance.
With a background in healthcare communications and digital health, I knew there had to be a better way. CertifyMe is that better way.
— Founder & CEO, CertifyMe
The idea
CertifyMe begins as a survivor-led concept for a better way to communicate healthcare needs and boundaries.
Research & discovery
Exploring the problem, patient need and potential role of CertifyMe within healthcare.
Platform development
Building and testing the CertifyMe patient and provider experience.
Provider conversations
Beginning conversations with healthcare providers about controlled early pilots.
Healthcare integration
Exploring integration with healthcare systems as CertifyMe's evidence base, governance and platform mature.
Special category data — handled with care
Under UK GDPR, health data, sex life data and sexual orientation data are classified as special category data. CertifyMe is designed to apply explicit consent, data minimisation and purpose limitation to the records you choose to create.
You control every disclosure
Nothing is shared without your explicit action. You choose what to include in each share link, and access can be revoked instantly. CertifyMe never sells, analyses or shares your data with third parties.
Designed with privacy by design
CertifyMe is being developed with UK data-protection requirements and privacy-by-design principles in mind. You have the right to access, correct, export or delete your data at any time.
Clinical safety in development
Clinical safety and governance are being developed as part of CertifyMe's provider-pilot readiness work. We are not yet clinically certified or compliant with any clinical safety standard.
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