This is an adult counselling service for Kurdish and Turkish speaking clients or client of Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot origin.

The type of referrals which are accepted include: Psychosomatic problems, depression, insomnia, suicidal thinking, anxiety, relationship problems, bereavement, PTSD, isolation, psychosexual problems. Referrals are not accepted for:

• Clients under 16 years old
• Clients who can not travel to surgery/health center
• Clients who are actively psychotic
• Clients with learning difficulties
• Drug and alcohol misuse as a primary problem
• Clients who have a violent behavior
• Clients who need long term intervention or psychiatric treatment
  

PROTOCOL FOR REFERRALS:

1-The client should be referred to the counsellor in writing by the GP or the other members of the Primary Health Care Team (Health Visitor, Midwife, Health Advocate etc.) and Locality Mental Health Teams.

2-Unless it is emergency each client is sent an OPT-IN letter. Only clients who respond to OPT-IN letter are sent an assessment appointment.

3-Client will be assessed by the counsellor for appropriateness and emergency cases are given priority and aimed to be seen within 2 weeks. However routine cases depending on the waiting list will mostly be seen within 13 weeks.

4-Following the assessment sessions, the client is offered 6 or 12 sessions for individual counselling, each session lasting 50 minutes.

5-If the client does not attend 2 consecutive appointments, she/he will be taken off the counselling list and the GP will be informed.

6-Both after assessment and at the completion of counselling, following agreement with the client, the counsellor will provide a brief feedback to the GP.

7-Referrals to be sent to Counsellors at Derman for the well-being of Kurdish and Turkish Speaking Communities, The Basement, 66 New North Road London, N1 6TG

For more information about our counselling service please contact us.

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