Private and Low-Cost Therapy at The Awareness Centre
Low-Cost Counselling at The Awareness Centre We are so proud of the low-cost counselling service that we offer to our…
The Awareness Centre Training School is Expanding
With over 120 students and three core courses, our training school has gone from strength to strength since its inception,…
The Awareness Centre Has Expanded to Wimpole Street
We are very excited to announce that our Managing Director, Michaela McCarthy, has now taken her private practice to our…
The Awareness Centre: Now Working Across Four London Boroughs
The Awareness Centre (TAC) is delighted to be working with the NHS across four South London boroughs; Lambeth, Wandsworth, Sutton…
Moving Online And Offline Due To Covid-19
Although the government has not provided any guidance specific to counselling or psychotherapy, the reduction from two metres to one…
Counselling Placements During Coronavirus: We Are Still Recruiting
Counselling placements at The Awareness Centre (TAC) are still up and running and we are actively recruiting during the Covid-19…
Online Counselling
What is Online Counselling? Online counselling is the provision of mental health support and counselling via the internet. It can…
The Awareness Centre Expands Its Online And Telephone Counselling Services
The Awareness Centre (TAC) is ensuring more people have access to therapy and mental health support during the coronavirus pandemic…
The Awareness Centre Tooting Turns Two
The Awareness Centre (TAC) is delighted to celebrate the second birthday of its centre in Tooting. After opening its doors…
TAC Quarterly Services Update: Autumn 2019
We are committed to improving our services in response to feedback and evaluations received from our service users, staff and…
Five Factors To Consider When Choosing A Counselling Course
The first step towards becoming a counsellor is to complete a year’s initial training, to equip you with the skills…
TAC Opens Low-Cost Psychosexual & Relationship Counselling Service
The Awareness Centre has opened a low-cost psychosexual & relationship counselling service at its Clapham SW4 and Tooting SW17 centres…
The Awareness Centre Opens Its Training School
Thinking about starting your training as a counsellor in south London? Searching for a training provider that can also support…
The Awareness Centre Introduces New CPD Workshops For Therapists
The Awareness Centre (TAC) is expanding its training offering by introducing a broad new range of continuing professional development (CPD)…
The Benefits Of Being An Early Morning Therapist
When is the best time to give or receive therapy? The majority of people seeking counselling or psychotherapy need their…
Talk Wandsworth Counselling Placement: What Our Therapists Say About It
The Awareness Centre (TAC) provides counselling to patients registered at GP surgeries in Wandsworth, and offers a counselling placement to…
The Benefits Of A Multilingual NHS Placement
It may be a cliché to say it, but London is a multicultural, melting-pot, polyglot city, and The Awareness Centre…
Short-Term Work On Our NHS Placement Can be Very Rewarding
Two placement therapists talk about their experiences of working with NHS clients. Lisa Mainz, who is in the second year…
The Awareness Centre Has Been Awarded A New NHS Counselling Service Contract In Wandsworth, London
The Awareness Centre (TAC) in Clapham, London, is proud to announce that it has been awarded a three-year contract to…
What’s it REALLY like doing an NHS counselling placement? Two therapists share their stories…
The NHS counselling placement we offer at The Awareness Centre is as demanding as it is rewarding. Trainee therapists who…
The benefits of doing an NHS counselling placement with The Awareness Centre
Choose to do your counselling placement at The Awareness Centre and you’ll come away with more than your client hours.…
Course leaders and workshop facilitators: opportunity to expand into South London
Are you a course leader seeking a busy location for your workshop, training programme or CPD seminar? Or a facilitator…
NHS mental health service in Lambeth achieves highest ever recovery rates
Lambeth Talking Therapies has achieved the highest ever patient recovery rates for the borough in the first quarter of 2015…
How my counselling placement at The Awareness Centre prepared me for private practice
I am a UKCP-registered psychotherapist with a busy private practice in Clapham and Purley. I’m also an NHS clinical team…
The Awareness Centre Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary
The Awareness Centre in Clapham SW4 opened its doors to clients 10 years ago in March 2005. We asked Managing…
Ten years of therapy in SW4
Michaela McCarthy reflects on a decade of running The Awareness Centre in Clapham. It’s been ten years since I set up…
What scares one-to-one therapists most about training in couples counselling?
When it comes to training in couples counselling, it’s the C word that holds the biggest fear for one-to-one therapists:…
The Awareness Centre unveils newly refurbished counselling rooms
The Awareness Centre (TAC) has refurbished its suite of 10 counselling rooms to offer a more luxurious and comfortable experience…
Memoirs of a Newbie
Originally, when I took to writing on this blog, I was asked me to write about my experience as a…
NHS counselling contract for The Awareness Centre
We’re really pleased to announce that The Awareness Centre has been awarded a contract by the NHS to provide counselling…
Ten Things To Consider When Looking For A Clinical Placement
Being a counselling/psychotherapy student can be a lonely and scary world. You have no social life, are up to your…