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...

Since 1983, we have provided interculturally tailored therapy to people in several North London boroughs through statutory contracts. We are now making our unique support available to a wider range of people through a new service called Nafsiyat Choice. We currently deliver individual therapy to people from any London borough on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Our Choice therapy service...

We have rooms available for hire – daytime, evenings, weekends. Regularly used as therapy rooms, they can also be used for groups or meetings. The partition wall between two of our rooms can be opened to create a space suitable for up to 30 people. We have chairs, tables, TV, Wi-Fi, accessible WC, kitchen and some parking space. The hire fee is £10/room/hour. If you have an enquiry or are...

Delivered by Dilek Güngör and Baffour Ababio. 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 Senior Psychotherapist, Baffour Ababio, was interviewed by Channel 4 News for a piece entitled “Black men ten times more likely to develop psychotic disorders – is there enough support?” which aired on Tuesday April 3rd. The segment was fronted by Jordan Jarrett-Bryan, who interviewed Baffour at our centre in North Islington. It was filmed by Adeyemi Michael....

Late last year, award-winning magazine and collective gal-dem visited Nafsiyat to hear more about what we do, speak with our therapists and help us tell our story through words and video. They have just published the article, written by Liza Bakeyi and entitled “THE NORTH LONDON INTERCULTURAL THERAPY CENTRE YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT”, and the video is now on Facebook. Click here to...