Skip to content
Home » The Wellbeing Network

The Wellbeing Network

Counselling Services
IAPT Talking Therapies
The Wellbeing Network
Gambling Counselling
How to Refer to us?

We accept referrals in writing, a letter or completing referral form, from GPs, other Primary Health Care professionals, Locality Mental Health Teams and other voluntary sector organisations or health professionals.

Download our Counselling Referral Form

Return the completed form by email to: talkingtherapies@derman.org.uk or Post to: Derman, The Basement, 66 New North Road, London N1 6TG

Get Our Help

Derman offers its services freely, at no cost, to all Kurdish, Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Eastern European Turkish people mainly Hackney irrespective of their political, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Derman’s services are all completely non-denominational and politically unaligned.

020 7613 5944

Contact Us

The Wellbeing Network

Derman has been part of City and Hackney Wellbeing Network, commissioned by Hackney Council, and led by City and Hackney Mind since February 2015. The Network offers one to one counselling and a range of group therapies to clients which aimed to improve emotional wellbeing, re-validate their skills to recover, live independently, and to manage their mental and physical well-being.

What we offer?

We offer individual short-term (6 to 12 sessions) and culturally sensitive counselling in Turkish and also run Self-help Group for Depression and Relapse Prevention Group.  We also run temporary groups for specific purposes time to time (e.g. Diabetes Group etc.). Our Counselling services operate under a ‘no drugs and alcohol policy’ and have a framework for missed and cancelled sessions.

1:1 Therapy

We offer different individual therapy modalities for WBN clients. The type of the modality most of the time determined by the client’s needs. All modalities work with Trauma informed framework.

  • Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Person Centred Therapy
  • Integrative Therapy
  • Couple Counselling
  • Coaching
  • Yoga and Mindfulness work

Group Counselling

Our counselling offered in a group environment can have many benefits. it offers a support network and provides the opportunity to meet others experiencing similar concerns. Together with the therapist and the other group members you’ll be encouraged to talk about your experience with other people who have had similar experiences. This can help you with feeling less alone and isolated, and also assist with gradually gaining confidence and building your self-esteem.

Derman offers three types of groups as part of the WBN services.

  • Activity based groups: Walk and Talk, Hand Craft, Film and Discussion Groups
  • Therapeutic groups: Depression and Anxiety, Taste of Life groups
  • Psychoeducation groups: Pain Management, Monthly Awareness

This is a free of charge adult (16 onwards) counselling service for Turkish speaking clients or clients of Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot origin who reside and/or are registered with a GP in Hackney.

We accept referrals in writing, a letter or completing referral form, from GPs, other Primary Health Care professionals, Locality Mental Health Teams and other voluntary sector organisations or health professionals.

Download Our Counselling Referral Form

Return the completed form by email to: talkingtherapies@derman.org.uk or
Post to: Derman, The Basement, 66 New North Road, London N1 6TG

We provide our counselling sessions in various GP surgeries in Hackney-London as well as at Derman. Please note: Our premises is not disabled accessible – please let us know if you or your client cannot manage stairs and we will arrange to see you at an alternative venue if possible.

A Note on Confidentiality
All practitioners work within a framework of confidentiality; whilst the relationship with the counsellor is strictly confidential, some aspects of the counsellor’s work will be discussed in supervision, within the context of total anonymity.

There will be no other disclosure. The only exceptions to this policy are where it is reasonably believed that the health and safety of an individual(s) is at risk and/or where we are legally obliged to disclose material, i.e. in the case of child protection and drug trafficking. Every effort is made to discuss this with the client beforehand.

Support us
Donate Now