In response to requests from clients, we seek applications from Black male 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. If you were successful in gaining a trainee placement with us, we...

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 people from...

Nafsiyat has developed a new one-day workshop for supervisors and supervisees, to explore interculturality within the supervisory relationship. It will be held online via Zoom on Sunday 15th November 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 since the...

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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...

Due to Covid-19 the Institute of Fundraising announced a startling statistic suggesting that up to 48% of all voluntary giving to charities would have fallen due to the pandemic. So together with Centre 404 and the Mayor of Islington we launched the Mayor’s campaign to help us through this pandemic and keep our services running. Take action: Covid-19s impact on Nafsiyat and Centre...

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...