We are pleased to share the news that, following a one-year secondment, Baffour Ababio has been appointed as the Clinical Lead of Nafsiyat. Baffour Ababio is a psychoanalytic intercultural psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice and at Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre. Baffour completed his training at University College London and the Guild of Psychotherapists and...

Covid-19 has had a disproportionate impact on Britain’s minorities. The critical preventative measures implemented to stem the spread of the virus, such as social distancing and self-isolation, have also impacted already marginalised groups to a much greater extent. Nafsiyat is now providing same language and culturally sensitive brief emotional interventions to adults (18+) from...

Delivered by Caroline Adewole 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...

Nafsiyat will again run its successful one-day workshop for supervisors and supervisees, to explore interculturality within the supervisory relationship. It will be held online via Zoom on Sunday 24th October 2021 and tickets are available now through Eventbrite. There have been many books, workshops and training program on psychotherapy and counselling across cultural and ‘racial’ borders...

This is a FREE Bereavement Support Service that we are providing as a member of the BAMEStream alliance. Who we will supportAnyone aged 18 and over who identifies as Black, Asian or any other Minoritised Ethnicity who has been affected by the death of a loved one due to Covid-19, and is registered with a GP in England. What we will provideNafsiyat will provide FREE culturally competent...

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The final nine minutes of George Floyd’s life captured on a smartphone camera, ignited the injustices which had for so long been seared into the lives of black people. The image of a white policeman’s knee bearing down on a black man’s neck, casually snuffing the life out of him, blew the lid...