About The Awareness Centre (TAC)

The Awareness Centre was founded in 2005 and has since developed into one of London’s leading providers of safe, confidential counselling and psychotherapy services for a range of mental health issues. We are based in Clapham (our first Centre) and Tooting (opened in 2019). Michaela McCarthy, our Managing Director, also runs her private practice offering counselling, psychotherapy and psychosexual & relationship therapy in Wimpole Street.

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Therapy Services in London

The Awareness Centre has a team of over 300 therapists offering confidential counsellingpsychotherapy and psychology in more than 20 languages from our London centres. Some therapists also offer online and telephone sessions. Our therapists work with multi-theoretical approaches and offer support for a range of presenting issues. We are a registered healthcare provider. If you’re taking the first step to reach out for support, our experienced reception team can help you find the right therapist for you. Call us on 020 8673 4545.

Our qualified private counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are all either registered or accredited with one or more of the following professional bodies.

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Counselling Placement

Counselling Placement at TAC

The Awareness Centre (TAC) runs one of the biggest counselling placement schemes in the UK, recruiting trainee counsellors, psychotherapists and counselling psychologists from over 60 training institutes in the Greater London area.

We offer placements within our NHS Talking Therapies Services in Lambeth, Sutton and Wandsworth and at our Clapham Centre within our Private Therapy Service. These placements support students’ training, allowing them to develop their clinical experience working with clients on a short and long-term basis, face-to-face and online. Students in training will need to be on a Diploma in Counselling or a Psychotherapy Training.

Discover Private & NHS Counselling

Our Private Therapy clients include individuals, couples and families, children aged from three years, young people from 13-17 years, and people aged 18+.

Our NHS clients are individuals aged 18+ registered with GP surgeries in the boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth and Sutton.

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The Awareness Centre

Our Philosophy, Mission, Values, and Vision

Our philosophy at The Awareness Centre is that no single approach to mental health is right for everyone and, as such, we ensure that we work with therapists who have a range of experience, backgrounds, and specialist knowledge. We welcome and encourage diversity and unity in our therapists, clients, trainees, and tutors to facilitate an environment in which mental health services are accessible and beneficial for all. 

The Awareness Centre’s mission is to be a positive force in the counselling and psychotherapy community by offering high-quality mental health services and training to all. The Awareness Centre endeavours to enhance our clients’ mental well-being and develop our trainee therapists to do the same, by providing outstanding training to the next generation of mental health practitioners.

The Awareness Centre values respect, compassion, and empathy for everyone, as well as integrity and transparency about our services and offerings. We are dedicated to the well-being of our clients, staff and students, and are passionate about education and increasing awareness of mental health issues. Our vision is to continually improve and enhance the mental health industry by committing to the training and development of our students and consistently providing exceptional mental health services to all.

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