COVID-19 is having a serious impact on our communities. We understand that there are uncertainties right now, but we want to reassure you that our service is still operating. We are dedicated to supporting our clients and the National Health Service. We will continue to provide intercultural therapy to those who need it most, in many languages. We will do our best to maintain the levels of...

Nafsiyat helps people who experience psychological and emotional problems and find it difficult to access help due to several barriers, which might include areas such as, culture and language. Last year we started a new service to make our unique intercultural therapeutic support available to a wider range of people. Nafsiyat Choice is available to individuals from any London borough. The...

Nafsiyat and Centre 404 take on Hackney Half as the two charities the Mayor of Islington, Councillor Rakhia Ismail, has chosen to support this year. This is a fantastic opportunity to fundraise and run the Hackney Half marathon and make a huge difference to the lives of those we work with. We have limited tickets, so sign up before it is too late:...

Nafsiyat is included (Appendix 3: page 28) in The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Advancing Mental Health Equality (AMHE) resource as a positive practice example. The AMHE resource was commissioned by NHS England to support delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan. It is a resource to support commissioners and providers to tackle mental health...

We are currently accepting applications from trainee counsellors and trainee therapists for placement. To be considered, you must be in at least your second year of training. The therapy modalities that we consider are psychodynamic and integrative, which includes a psychodynamic component. We are particularly interested in applications from people who are able to speak any of the following...

Delivered by Baffour Ababio and Sega Habtom. The workshop will draw on clinical examples and work as well as the intercultural experience to put forward the processes involved in working at the juncture of the client’s inner and outer experiences. The evocation of shame and avoidance in the dyadic or group encounter of intersecting differences and sameness will also be explored. “Any clinical...

Nafsiyat is incredibly pleased to have been chosen as one of the charities that will receives support from the new Mayor of Islington, Rakhia Ismail. Last Thursday, Councillor Rakhia Ismail became the UK’s first Muslim, Somali-born, hijab wearing Mayor. We look forward to working with her, and her other chosen charity, Centre 404, to raise much needed funds and increase awareness about...

A new book – Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments – examines the impact of our work at the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre. The editors of this book have invited a number of Nafsiyat therapists and colleagues to give their view on what has changed, or not changed, in regard to the integration of intercultural issues into mainstream therapy....

The Nafsiyat research team, led by a medical anthropologist currently completing her PhD research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Natassia Brenman, have finished working on a project conducting research into the therapy work that Nafsiyat does. The project aimed to capture narratives about the processes involved with accessing the service and progressing through therapy...

Nafsiyat is bidding to bag a cash boost from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores awarded to local community projects. Three groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and shoppers are...