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NHS mental health service in Lambeth achieves highest ever recovery rates

June 23, 2015

Lambeth Talking Therapies has achieved the highest ever patient recovery rates for the borough in the first quarter of 2015 – and the best results for the last five years.…

How my counselling placement at The Awareness Centre prepared me for private practice

March 30, 2015

Karen Dempsey

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I am a UKCP-registered psychotherapist with a busy private practice in Clapham and Purley. I’m also an NHS clinical team leader. Looking back, I doubt I would have hit the…

The Awareness Centre Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

March 24, 2015

Michaela McCarthy

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The Awareness Centre in Clapham SW4 opened its doors to clients 10 years ago in March 2005. We asked Managing Director Michaela McCarthy to look back on her highlights of…

Ten years of therapy in SW4

March 16, 2015

Michaela McCarthy

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Michaela McCarthy reflects on a decade of running The Awareness Centre in Clapham. It’s been ten years since I set up The Awareness Centre in Clapham SW4. What started out as…

Working with Couples CPD Seminar with Cabby Laffy

What scares one-to-one therapists most about training in couples counselling?

May 22, 2014

The Awareness Centre

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When it comes to training in couples counselling, it’s the C word that holds the biggest fear for one-to-one therapists: Conflict. Therapists who see individuals work with the story and…

The Awareness Centre unveils newly refurbished counselling rooms

April 23, 2014

The Awareness Centre

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The Awareness Centre (TAC) has refurbished its suite of 10 counselling rooms to offer a more luxurious and comfortable experience for therapists and their clients. The refurb is part of…

Memoirs of a Newbie

October 17, 2012

Caz Binstead

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Clinical Placement, Counselling Placement, NHS Placement

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Originally, when I took to writing on this blog, I was asked me to write about my experience as a placement/trainee counsellor – I have slightly digressed in my other…

NHS counselling contract for The Awareness Centre

September 12, 2012

The Awareness Centre

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We’re really pleased to announce that The Awareness Centre has been awarded a contract by the NHS to provide counselling services in Lambeth over the next three years. We are…

Ten Things To Consider When Looking For A Clinical Placement

May 22, 2012

Caz Binstead

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Clinical Placement, Counselling Placement, Clinical Supervision

Being a counselling/psychotherapy student can be a lonely and scary world. You have no social life, are up to your eyes in college, counselling, supervision, essays, case studies etc… and…