Nafsiyat launches Choice service
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 is delivered on an open-ended and long-term basis.
Once you contact Nafsiyat letting us know you are interested in the Therapy we offer, we will contact you to offer you an assessment appointment. This will take 50 minutes with the assessor/therapist to explore and to discuss your emotional needs and to decide together how our therapy service can help. Upon the outcome of the assessment, you will then be referred to a suitable therapist who will contact you to offer you a weekly ongoing therapy session. Each session lasts 50 minutes.
Fee and methods of payments
The initial assessment session is £60. Our weekly fees will be between £40 and £60 per session depending on each individual financial situation, which will be determined during assessment. All fees are subject to a cancellation period of 2 working day. We accept payment by cash or by card on the day of the appointment.
Referral form
Nafsiyat Choice referral form [Word doc 131KB]
Nafsiyat Choice information sheet [PDF 126KB]
Right click to download and save the file, then email completed forms to choice@nafsiyat.org.uk. We also accept letters and faxes.
Lear More
Room Hire Available
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 interested in booking a room, please email admin@nafsiyat.org.uk or call 0207 263 6947.
Lear More
Cultural Competence Training
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 encounter that does not take into account the client’s whole life experience and does not consider their race, culture, gender or social values, can only fragment that person.” (Jafar Kareem, co-founder of Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre). In the workshop Jafar’s quote will be applied to societal/individual assumptions with regards to racism and sexism. There will be an opportunity for participants to work on some of their own material from their practice.
To find out more or to get your tickets, click here
Lear More
Baffour Ababio on Channel 4 News
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.
“Research show that if you’re a black adult male you’re 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. But why? And is there enough support available to those with mental health issues before they reach the point of crisis. Because too often it’s only when the breakdown happens that contact is made with any kind of services.”
Lear More
Nafsiyat features in Gal-dem article and video
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 visit the gal-dem site and read the article.
Click here to watch the video on Facebook.
Lear More