Our Services
Clients can choose whether they would like to join a group or receive individual counselling. Currently we have a group for women affected by domestic violence and in April 2009 we will start another group for women over 50. These are ongoing groups for up to a year. Clients are asked to commit to coming regularly.
Counselling for Black women
While all our counsellors are sensitive to issues facing women from Black and ethnic minority communities, we offer Black and African-Caribbean clients the choice of seeing someone from their own culture if they feel it would be more helpful in exploring issues of identity, racism and exclusion.
Counselling for Irish women
We acknowledge that many Irish clients continue to experience racism and exclusion from many support services. We provide a service where issues of individual and group identity can be explored and are recognised as important factors impacting the development of positive mental health.
Counselling for Women Affected by Domestic Violence
We work with women for whom violence has been or is a significant part of their lives, providing individual or group therapy. We also work with front-line providers of services targeting women affected by domestic violence, providing training or supervision.
The Older Women’s Project
We aim to improve the mental health of women over 50 in the community who are living in conditions of deprivation and who may not see themselves as candidates for psychological help. By offering either individual counselling or group work, which strengthens inner resources and breaks down isolation, we can help clients live more resourcefully. If you have any enquiries about this service, or would like to refer someone, please contact Carole Jackson via our switch board on 0207 281 2728 or email: info@mayacentre.org.uk
Refugee Project, Counselling in English, Farsi, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Turkish
We are very proud to announce that, with funding from Comic Relief and City Parochial Foundation, we are now offering women refugees who fit our criteria the possibility of receiving their counselling in seven different languages.
If you have any enquiries about this service, or would like to refer someone, please contact our switch board on 0207 281 2728 or email: info@mayacentre.org.uk and you will be directed the following staff:
Neegan Zohari - counselling in Farsi and French
Nilay Nagle - counselling in Turkish
Orit Beck - counselling in Portuguese and Spanish
Ilkay Cetin - counselling in Turkish
Atoosa Khosravi Noori - counselling in Farsi
Turkish-language counselling
We offer Turkish-speaking women whose English is not fluent the choice of receiving counselling in their mother tongue. We believe that by offering this choice, we can reach out to even more women who might otherwise be unable to access our service. If you have any enquiries about this service, or would like to refer someone, please contact Nilay Nagle via our switch board on 0207 281 2728 or email: info@mayacentre.org.uk
Outreach Services
As the Maya Centre targets the most disadvantaged sections of society, we place great emphasis on our outreach services. The counselling staff will be happy to visit any group or agency. We see ourselves as having a role working alongside other organisations, planners and user groups, in order to raise awareness of the efficacy of counselling/psychotherapy to our client group.