Salvia Women's Therapy Centre helps women overcome barriers to accessing therapy. It does this through a community therapy model which includes outreach via taster sessions and community partnerships as well as one-to-one therapy.
The Centre has a commitment to offering psychotherapy to women whose needs might not otherwise be met elsewhere, and works with women who would not usually have access to therapy.
Our objectives are to improve access to therapeutic services for disadvantaged women, to develop their self-esteem and confidence, and to alleviate their depression, anxiety and anger.
Salvia Women's Therapy Centre was set up to continue the work of the The Women's Therapy Centre, which offered individual and group psychotherapy to women between 1976 and 2019. It ensured that psychotherapy was available to all women, regardless of ability to pay, sexual orientation, disability, cultural or social background, immigration status, previous psychiatric history or age.
CEO and founder
Njomeza Kartallozi, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (BACP Accredited)
Trustees
Patti O'Malley, Academic with Specialism in Gender
Verity Di Mascio, Senior lecturer in Psychology of Mental Health
Helen Sett-Wong, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist
Address:
10 Manor Gardens, London, N7 6JS
Area serviced:
Mainly Islington, also elsewhere in London under certain circumstances.
Telephone:
020 7263 7860 (general enquiries) / 020 7263 6200 (appointments)
Opening times:
Opening Hours: Mondays: 9am – 6pm Tuesdays & Wednesdays: 9am – 8pm Thursdays: 9am – 5pm
Who is it for:
Salvia Women's Therapy Centre currently offers the following services: One-to-one therapy: individual therapy based on psychodynamic principles. Psychotherapy sets out to understand the underlying causes of a wide range of difficulties, which may sometimes be linked to particular experiences. Taster sessions: These sessions give women the opportunity to explore feelings and fears about using mental health services and offer some insight into psychotherapy/talking therapies and the benefits of such therapy. Psycho-education groups: a specific type of group therapy consisting of clients that all share similar difficulties. Psycho-education groups focus on coping with specific difficulties but also on the clients own strengths, resources and coping skills in order to contribute to their health and wellness on a long-term basis.
Languages:
Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish psychotherapy.
Disabled access:
Wheelchair, accessible toilet
Charges:
£1 per £1000 income, minimum £5. All fees clarified at the outset.
How to apply:
Referral to Salvia Women's Therapy Centre is via self-referral or through a community group or voluntary sector organisation. Salvia Women's Therapy Centre prioritises referrals from women who: are from communities experiencing ethnic or racial inequity, discrimination or inequality have experienced gender-based violence or abuse are educationally or economically disadvantaged
Train/tube:
Holloway Road (Piccadilly) Archway (Northern)