Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
Nafsiyat is a registered charity (No. 287819) and has been providing high quality, low cost, community based 'intercultural' psychodynamic psychotherapy in North London since 1983. It provides psychotherapy for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds and therapists not only work with patients from cultures and ethnicities different from their own but also the therapists themselves come from a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Our main work covers providing psychotherapy and counselling services to members of cultural minority groups. Staff at Nafsiyat includes analytically trained psychotherapists and counsellors. The number of therapy (paid staff, students and volunteers) and administration staff is fifteen and the current languages available are Arabic, Bengali, Turkish, Greek, Farsi and Japanese. However these languages fluctuate with changes in staff. More...
NAFSIYAT HAS MOVED!
Our new address is: Unit 4, Clifton House, 42/43, Clifton Terace, London N4 3JP; telephone 020 7263 6947; fax 020 7686 8667 and email: admin@nafsiyat.org.uk.
Our new Offices are on the ground floor and fully accessible. These premises are being fully refurbished and converted into Counselling / Training rooms and offices.
HOW TO GET TO UNIT 4, CLIFTON HOUSE, CLIFTON TERRACE, 42/43, Clifton Terrace, London N4 3JP
Our new Offices are opposite the Wells Terrace entrance to Finsbury Park Station - Victoria & Piccadily Lines and Overground Rail services. When travelling by Underground, upon exit, take the exit to Wells Terrace - we are directly Opposite Wells Terrace. There are several buses also stopping at Finsbury Park - Buses 210, W3 and W7 from Wells Terrace. Buses 4, 19,153 (from outside Arsenal Shop) and Buses 29, 253,254 and 259 from Seven Sisters Road.
CAN YOU HELP?
We are grateful to Islington Primary Care Trust for giving us a one-off capital grant to enable us to refurbish our new premises. However, the costs have increased since the grant was approved and we have a launched an Appeal Fund seeking donations from our friends, well wishers & clients. We need to raise £15,000 (fifteen thousand pounds)
If you can contribute, please send your donations directly to us at our current address 262, Holloway Road, London, N7 6NE; cheques should be made payable to: `Nafsiyat - Appeal Fund'. Alternatively, contact our Offices on 020 7263 6947 if you would like to send a payment by BACs transfer. If you are a UK tax payer, you can contribute this as a Gift Aid enabling us to claim Income Tax exemption.
- Monika Schwartz
- Chief Executive
- 020 7263 6947
- monikas@nafsiyat.org.uk
Intercultural Clinical Case Discussion Seminars NAFC01-05
How do differences of race, culture and ethnicity enter into the clinical process? These seminars offer psychotherapists an opportunity to explore and develop their intercultural psychotherapeutic thinking and practice and continuous professional development in this important area of psychotherapeutic work. More...
Seminar:
Hybridization as a Therapeutic Challenge: Couple and Family Work across Bicultural Divides.
This seminar explores the therapeutic challenges of working with family members representing multiple generations with quite different cultural values. Hybridization of cultural frames of reference influences alliance building, dynamics and strategies in the family therapy context.More...
Asian Family Counselling Service and Nafsiyat Inter-cultural Therapy Centre
2nd Joint Conference
Extending the family: inter-cultural issues in Britain
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Wembley Plaza Hotel, London, UK
Asian Family Counselling Service and Nafsiyat Inter-cultural Therapy Centre invite you to our 2nd joint conference on inter-cultural psychotherapy and counselling. Aimed at mental health and social care professionals and trainees, this conference seeks to unpack notions of 'family' and explore how changing family structures impact on inter-cultural psychotherapy and counselling.
The conference will feature a combination of lectures, discussions, and practice oriented workshops from professionals and academics working in the field of mental heath and culture.
Key note speakers:
'A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in a Sikh Family in Wolverhampton' Mr. Sathnam Sanghera, Author of the The Boy with the Topnot, Selected as 2009 Mind Book of the Year
'Families, Politics, Culture and Change' Mr. Richard Blackwell, Psychotherapist & Supervisor, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
'African and Muslim Fathers and Sons' Dr. Iyabo Fatimilehin, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Independent Practitioner Mrs. Amira Hassan, Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Alder Hey Children's NHS Trust
Workshop: Choice of two 1-hour long practice based workshops, including:
1. Fathers and Sons: Working with Caribbean and Asian Families
(Mr. Lennox Thomas)
2. Parenting in the shadows - Struggles and strengths in Lesbian parented families
(Ms. Mo Brown)
3. Black Issues in the therapeutic Process
(Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga)
4. Cross Cultural Parent groups
(Ms. Beverley Costa)
5. Understanding Trauma in Children and Families
(Ms. Ruth Barnett)
Registration
Government and Statutory Agencies: £100 (£80 early bird)
Voluntary Sector and Individual: £80 (£65 early bird)
Students: £40 (£30 early bird)
Early bird rates for registrations post-marked by Sept. 9th, 2009
20% discount for block bookings of five or more places.
Fees include refreshments, hot Indian lunch, conference pack and certificate of attendance
Jafar Kareem Bursary
Following the untimely death of Jafar Kareem in 1992, a Fund was set up in his memory by his family and friends. The main purpose of the Fund is to provide bursaries to ethnic minority students to help with the costs of their psychotherapy training.
Jafar always lamented the lack of ethnic minority psychotherapists and wanted to find ways of helping more diverse individuals to train in the discipline. Hence the purpose of the Memorial Fund. The Trustees intend to award a bursary of between £1000 and £3000 to an ethnic minority student in 2008-09. The student should have completed at least two years of a qualifying course in psychodynamic psychotherapy (accredited by BPC or UKCP psychodynamic section).
Details of the bursary and how to apply can be obtained from heloisekareem@yahoo.co.uk. Applications open in Autumn 2009.