We sadly share the news that pioneering psychotherapist Lennox Thomas has died.

Lennox Thomas, originally from Grenada, qualified and worked as a social worker and probation officer with adults, children and families. He then went on to train as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and was a registered psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

Nafsiyat is included (Appendix 3: page 28) in The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Advancing Mental Health Equality (AMHE) resource as a positive practice example.

A new book – Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments – examines the impact of our work at the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre.

The editors of this book have invited several Nafsiyat therapists and colleagues to give their views on what has changed, or not changed, regarding the integration of intercultural issues into mainstream therapy.

The Cultural Competence workshop will draw on clinical examples and work as well as the intercultural experience to put forward the processes involved in working at the juncture of the client’s inner and outer experiences. The evocation of shame and avoidance in the dyadic or group encounter of intersecting differences and sameness will also be explored.

Nafsiyat Senior Psychotherapist, Baffour Ababio, was interviewed by Channel 4 News for a piece entitled “Black men ten times more likely to develop psychotic disorders – is there enough support?” which aired on Tuesday, April 3rd.

Late last year, an award-winning magazine and collective ‘gal-dem’ visited Nafsiyat to hear more about what we do, speak with our therapists and help us tell our story through words and video.