Welcome to our Counselling Room!
Step into tranquility and embrace the harmonious blend of nature and culture in our newly revamped cousnelling room. We’ve curated a serene and inspiring space of natural elegance and cultural richness to enhance your comfort and well-being during your sessions.
Here’s a glimpse of what awaits you:
We have added elements of nature and you will enjoy the soothing ambience created by our palm tree display. This vibrant centrepiece brings a touch of the tropics, promoting relaxation and a sense of escape.
This can be achieved whilst sinking into the comfort of a richly printed sofa which tells a story of heritage and culture, while the coordinating throws adds an extra layer of warmth and coziness.
Completeing the setting is a small drinks table, inspired by African craftsmanship. Here, you can enjoy a refreshing beverage, adding to the overall experience of hospitality and care whilst breathing in the frest, invigorating scent of our her plant, thoughtfully placed in a small pot to enhance the room’s natural vibe.
These living elements not only purifies the air but also symbolises growth and renewal.
Why Choose Our counselling room?
- A Tranquil Environment: Designed to help you unwind and feel at ease.
- Cultural Touches: Rich African influences to inspire and connect.
- Natural Elements: Bringing the outdoors in to promote peace and relaxation.
Counselling
The funding CJO has received allows us to offer a confidential, non-judgemental therapeutic space for African and Caribbean women of over the age of 16, experiencing emotional distress because of domestic abuse. To access our service, you must live in London. We offer up to 6 sessions of counselling, which can be extended. We work by phone, online and in person.
This service offers a culturally sensitive service for women and girls from African and Caribbean communities. The focus is on providing a safe and non-judgemental space for you to:
- Access to a trained counsellor / psychotherapist who you can talk to about your concerns to ease the emotional distress you are experiencing and:
- Explore with you, aspects of coercive control, financial abuse and emotional abuse as well as physical and sexual abuse
- Improve communication skills to improve your relationships with members of your family, friends and other professionals and if you have been isolated due to abuse, help you to rebuild them
- Access to a culturally sensitive service “for and by” African and Caribbean women which considers immigration, no recourse to public funds, unequal access to available services and the impact of discrimination and marginalisation
- Explore behaviours associated with being in an abusive relationship such as fear, extreme anxiety, hypervigilance, depression and a sense of hopelessness
- Seek a better understanding of your feelings, thoughts and behaviour and work out what you might like to change
- Help you explore complicated and conflicted feelings and find a way of managing them
- Change behaviours and underlying patterns which are not hepling you in your life right now
- Explore recent or childhood trauma to see how this is affecting your life
- Help you to cope with challenging life events such as domestic violence, unemployment, sudden debilitating illness, financial meltdowns, debt and racism in the work place
- Help you to build an honest relationship, where you may tell a counsellor things you have never spoken about, feelings you have never admitted to, without the fear of judgement
- Understand some of the difficulties you may be experienceing as your counsellor is from the same or similar community
- Help you to change or improve existing relationships
No matter what type of therapy is offered, what is proven to help people improve their mental health is the relationship you develop with your counsellor.
Our counsellors are experienced and fully qualified members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). They are fully supervised by an independent clinical supervisor, with all of us working to the professional standards set out in the BACP Ethical Framework (2018)
Referrals
Complete our counselling referral form online or download and return it via email.
We welcome referrals from Social Services, other voluntary sector organisations, teachers, healthcare workers and self-referrals for African and Caribbean women over the age of 16, experiencing domestic abuse.
We cannot accept referrals for women and girls with severe, on-going mental health issues as the number of sessions offered will not meet their needs and where it would be in the service-users’ interests to access face to face, long term therapy individually or in a group. If women and girls with severe, ongoing mental health issues come through as a self-referral, we are still unable to accept such referrals.
We cannot accept clients in an emergency. Our counsellors work within the framework of a contract and develop a therapeutic relationship based on trust, with a client over time. In an emergency, we would ask that you contact the Police, Accident & Emergency, or the Duty Social Worker in the borough where you live.