The ‘one-size-fits all’ approach to mental health services is excluding women – this must change
Here at The Maya Centre, our free counselling service is available to women who need it in Islington and surrounding London boroughs. This means we’re always working to ensure that our diverse team of experienced counsellors reflects the local community. Our counselling is offered in several languages to women from minoritised communities and includes Turkish, Albanian, […]
#TalkWomensHealth: Your voices are needed to improve women’s health and care across the UK
Back in March, the UK government launched a call for evidence to better understand women’s experiences of the health and care system. Originally intended to run for a period of 12 weeks, the call for evidence has now been extended, with women from Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those living in the Midlands and East […]
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021: our pledge to take action in the fight for mental health support
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual week-long event providing an opportunity for the public to talk about all aspects of mental health, and start conversations about the things in our daily lives that can affect it. With mental health charities reporting that in any given week, one in six of us will experience a common mental […]