Our Vision

All mental health services should be professionally delivered and sensitive to the needs of diverse cultural and ethnic populations, with every therapist culturally competent.

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Our Mission

Nafsiyat provides an Intercultural Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and counselling service, develops and advances knowledge in this area, and champions good practice.

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Our Values

In all its actions, Nafsiyat will:

• Put its client first, seeking so far as possible to be accessible to anyone with mental health problems irrespective of their cultural background, perceived ethnic origin, religion or linguistic competence
• Value diversity, making it central to the practice of counselling and psychotherapy, and ensuring that our organisation reflects this value
• Be open, accessible and inclusive, responsive to the social realities lived by clients seeking therapy and their unique experiences
• Act with integrity and transparency, while safeguarding client confidentiality
• To benefit clients and the wider community, contributing to a more functional society
• Promote an awareness of the multi layered identities and positions of clients and how these positions interact in complex ways that must be acknowledged and addressed

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  Strategic Objectives

• Be central to the delivery of quality Intercultural Therapy
• Evidence and research the benefits of Intercultural Therapy
• Be the authority on Intercultural Therapy, take the practice and concept into mainstream practice, and advance the dialogue on intercultural issues in the therapeutic setting
• Increase the number of minority-ethnic and culturally-aware people trained and working in therapeutic roles
• Continue as an independent, well managed, financially and environmentally sustainable Nafsiyat