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
Asian Family Counselling Service and Nafsiyat Inter-cultural Therapy Centre
2nd Annual Joint Conference
Extending the family: inter-cultural issues in Britain
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Wembley Plaza Hotel, London, UK
A recent United Kingdom government discussion paper has highlighted changing family structures in response to shifting social norms, migration and cultural diversity. This conference seeks to unpack notions of ‘family’ and explore how changing family structures impact on inter-cultural psychotherapeutic work. The morning sessions will feature key-note speakers. The afternoon sessions will provide an opportunity for clinicians and researchers to share new or existing research and/or clinical interventions. We invite expressions of interest for papers and workshops sessions on any aspects of family, culture and psychotherapy and counselling.
For further details see: CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version)
Please mark your diaries. Registration forms and program to follow shortly.
Forthcoming seminars:
Male suicide in the Turkish and Kurdish Communities. More...
Cultural diversity and child care: considering outcomes. More...
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.