Our Mission Statement

Objectives

Our central purpose is to provide psychotherapeutic help for refugees and asylum seekers, especially children and families of recently arrived refugees who are having problems of adjustment.

The Refugee Therapy Centre offers expertise in the delivery of an integrated and user-friendly mental health service for people who have endured considerable trauma and forced displacement.

The Centre provides psychotherapy, counselling and associated treatments to refugees and asylum seekers in their own language. The Centre endeavours to help people to deal with and overcome psychological problems in a creative, supportive and containing environment in which they are better able to understand their feelings and experiences, and through this to feel more content about themselves.

This provides them with the opportunity to regain their confidence, learn new skills and find the empowerment that enables reintegration.

In particular we are eager to help ease the demanding and intricate processes of transition many traumatised people have to face before they are able to become integrated, economically strong and productive members of society.

Aims

To provide psychotherapy and associated treatments for refugees and asylum seekers.
To give priority to the needs of children, young people under 25, and their families.
To give priority to those with less than 10 years in the U.K. at the time of first contact.
To provide skilled listeners, counselling, practical help or advocacy for enquirers, with a view to referring them on to other agencies as appropriate, to speed up the process of adaptation to their new circumstances.
To provide initial training for refugees working for the project, in psychotherapy, counselling, advocacy, administration, bookkeeping and other skills useful in the organisation, to encourage re-entry into the job-market and society in general.