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Who are we?
The Refugee Therapy Centre provides specialist
psychotherapy, counselling, and associated treatment for refugees and asylum
seekers.
We aim to work with the cultural and linguistic needs
of individuals, helping people feel empowered to
deal with psychological issues in an effective and
appropriate manner.
Who do we work with?
We offer individual, family, couple and group therapy.
We aim to give priority to children, young people and
their families, and those with less than ten years in
the UK at the time of first contact.
We are currently commissioned by Islington, Hackney and
Haringey Primary Care Trusts and so have funding for
clients from these boroughs. If you are referring people
outside these boroughs, please advise us on funding.
How to refer to us
Please send a letter referring the client to us. We need
you to provide us with the client’s details (name,
address, age, languages spoken and reason for referral).
If you have made an assessment already, it would be
helpful if you include a copy of this document. If the
person has had a psychiatric assessment or hospital
admission, we need to have copies of the assessment and
discharge summary.
What happens after referral?
We will send you an acknowledgement letter confirming
that your referral has been received. We will also send
the client a letter explaining that they have been
referred to us by your service. The person will then be
invited for an assessment where they can discuss their
needs.
The assessment will be with one or two therapists, and
usually takes up to 1½ hours. More than one appointment
might be required. The assessment will help us decide if
our services are appropriate. If we believe we can help,
we will allocate the person to a therapist and will
write inviting him/her to start therapy on a regular,
weekly basis. Where a specific language is required, the
treatment may be with a bi-lingual therapist, or with an
interpreter. In some cases, if the client prefers, the
therapy may be in English (some people may prefer not to
see someone from their own cultural background). We will
send you a copy of any correspondence with the client to
keep you informed of our involvement. We will contact
you if the client’s treatment, attendance or situation
requires it.
Languages
We try to offer counselling and psychotherapy in the
languages spoken by refugees and asylum seekers. The
number of languages we offer varies depending on our
staff and volunteers, as well as the needs of the
refugee and asylum seeking population.
Currently we offer:
Albanian, Amharic, Creole, Deri, English, Farsi,
French, German, Greek, Italian, Kinyrwanda, Lingala,
Luganda, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Somali, Swahili, Tigre,
Tigrinia and Turkish.
What other services do we provide?
We also offer:
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Bi-lingual Support Work, helping
people who are suffering to
access support and
services
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a Mentoring project providing weekly, one-to-one
therapeutic language support for refugees and asylum
seekers to help people improve their English, and to
help children and young people with their schoolwork
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initial
skills training and support for refugees working as volunteers
at the Centre
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a one year Introductory Course on Counselling
Refugees for refugees and asylum seekers who are
interested in developing the resources of their own
communities, as well as professionals who wish to
further their knowledge of working with refugees
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training, supervision and consultation to other
organisations and professionals working with
refugees and asylum seekers.
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