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Working with refugees and asylum seekers
Systemic Psychotherapists David Amias and Nsimire Bisimwa talk us through their two-day workshop, which provides a much-needed starting point for...
George Floyd one year on: Tavistock anti-racist pledges
On the anniversary of the tragic murder of George Floyd, we pledge our commitment to becoming an anti-racist organisation. To help us, we have...
Research shows one size doesn’t fit all for cervical screening in the trans and non-binary community
Facilitating cervical screening for trans men and non-binary people requires a multi-pronged approach, involving improved training for providers,...
Talking to Children about Difficult Things
Even the most experienced practitioners can feel daunted when faced with the task of talking to children and young people about difficult and...
Transformed emotional wellbeing and mental health service for Surrey’s children and young people gets underway
A new alliance of NHS, national and local voluntary sector organisations has come together to deliver a transformed emotional wellbeing and mental...
COVID-19 pandemic - Where are we now?
Dr Joanne Stubley, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist & Psychoanalyst, and lead for the Tavistock Trauma service writes. I wrote a paper near the...
Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach
This innovative course explores the complex issues involved in assessing and managing the risk of violence and sexual offending. We asked course...
Children, young people and the future of mental health
Ahead of our centenary talk: The Next 100 years: Innovations and insights for the 21st century, we interviewed Emilios Lemoniatis, Consultant Child...
Complex and Creative: Thinking about the process of couple interpretation
Tavistock and Portman student, Suzie Quartermaine, shares her experience of the first 'Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Couples' (D59C) Alumni...
Join us for our final centenary event, 'The next 100 years: Innovations and insights for the 21st century'
In our final free online centenary event, on Wednesday 24 March 2021, we will look to the past and future of challenges and possibilities for...
The challenges of working within and across organisations
Lydia Hartland-Rowe reflects on our latest Centenary Event, ‘Working and Wellbeing: Organisations and Systems’.
Stephen Blumenthal in the Telegraph: “Optimism laced with realism is the only way to face our uncertain future”
Dr Stephen Blumenthal, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst here at the Tavistock and Portman, has written a new piece for The...
Office for Students Registration
We have become the first NHS Trust to be registered with the Office for Students – the body that monitors Higher Education providers to ensure that...
Celebrating Mental Heath Nurses Day 2021
Sunday 21 February marks the third annual 'Mental Health Nurses Day' – an opportunity to celebrate the diversity and importance of Mental Health...
Lockdown and learning: too much to think
Following the launch of the anticipated ‘Learning from the unconscious’, Educational Psychologist and Visiting Lecturer Xavier Eloquin reflects on...
Help inform and develop our anti-racism work – invitation to tender a research project and action plan
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust wishes to commission research and an action plan as part of our intention to become an anti-racist...
Early Intervention Study shows puberty blockers are a well-received intervention in carefully selected patients
Starting in 2011, the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock undertook the Early Intervention Study to provide a research framework...
Statement in response to the January 2021 CQC report on GIDS
In 2016 the CQC rated our Gender Identity Development Service as Good, but following its inspection in October, it has now rated the service...
Permission granted to appeal High Court judgment on consent for puberty-blocking treatment
On 1 December 2020 the High Court ruled that children and young people may not be able to consent to puberty-blocking treatment in cases of gender...
Launch of 2021’s centenary programme
The Tavistock and Portman has launched an exciting new series of public lectures or talks as part of its centenary festival programme. Details of...
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and Foundation of Nursing Studies win Burdett Trust for Nursing funding
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and Foundation of Nursing Studies win the Burdett Trust for Nursing funding to deliver Resilience...
Update on GIDS Judicial Review and timetable for clinical reviews, 22 December 2020
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, together with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals...
“The unconscious is a foreign country we are training to get to know”
Jenifer Wakelyn reflects on our talk on infant observation this week. In case you missed the talk, you can watch a recording on our YouTube...
Update on the Judicial Review, Tuesday 1 December 2020
The Trust is disappointed by today’s judgment and we understand that the outcome is likely to cause anxiety for patients and their families. Our...
Issues with our online Complaints and PALS form – 1 December 2020
The online forms for our complaints form and our Patient Advice and Liason Service (PALS) are currently experiencing IT issues. We are working to...
Teens in AI to pitch to industry leaders
Teams of teen tech entrepreneurs will set out to impress industry heavyweights and mental health leaders at a special Teens in AI Pitchfest event,...
"The baby who is born pink learns to become white"
Helen Morgan provided a psychoanalytic framework to understand racism in our online seminar Tavistock Policy Seminar: Whiteness – A problem for our...
Attend our Annual General Meeting
Our AGM will take place Wednesday 18 November (4.30pm) as a special online event.
Welcome our new Governors
We are delighted to announce three new governors have joined our council.
Stuart Hall Foundation scholar to train as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Stuart Hall Foundation Scholar Sagal Adam Hassan has been accepted to train as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at the...
How two wars shaped the Tavistock
Sebastian Kraemer, Sarah Helps and Glenn Gossling gave a whirlwind tour of the history of our ideas as part of our online festival ‘100 years of...
“Nobody thought they were doing anything wrong”
Last week was the launch of 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman with award-winning poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay. Sheena Webb...
Introducing our Digital Academy’s first Trust Certificate – and you can apply now
The Tavistock and Portman Digital Academy launched early last month with five new online courses of varying format, level and duration – including...
Lemn Sissay to launch 100 years of the Tavistock and Portman
Award-winning poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay will launch the Tavistock and Portman’s festival of events online this Wednesday with...
Marking our centenary – Looking back, looking forward
27th September marks the 100th anniversary of when the first patient, a child, was seen at the Tavistock Clinic. While inevitably more muted than...
The Tavistock welcomes independent review of the care of gender diverse young people
The care of gender diverse children and young people is a complex and highly specialised field. As referrals have risen, the service has struggled...
Council of Governors – Statement of Persons Nominated, September 2020
See which candidates have been nominated for our Council of Governors election.
World Suicide Prevention Day 2020
Thoughts on World Suicide Prevention Day.
The Tavistock and Portman Digital Academy is now live!
The Digital Academy website will be the portal through which UK and international learners will access our new portfolio of online courses. This...
Supporting your children as they return to school
As children return to school this week, we’re aware that parents and carers have questions about how to best support their children during this...
National Fraud Initiative
This Trust is required by law to protect the public funds it administers. It may share information provided to it with other bodies responsible for...
Applicant and student portal maintenance: Monday 7 September
Our application and student portal (MyTAP) will not be available from 8pm on Monday 7 September 2020 for approximately 30 minutes while the system...
Applicant and student portal upgrade: 12-15 February 2021
Our application and student portal (MyTAP) will not be available from 18:00, Friday, 12 February until 9:30, Monday, 15 February while we carry out...
Shape the future of our Trust - put your name forward for a Governor position today!
The Council of Governor Elections are now open to members.
“It gets rid of the butterflies in your tummy” – Congratulations to our Level Up graduates on starting secondary school
A huge ‘CONGRATULATIONS!’ to the young people who took part in our Level Up programme as they graduate to their new secondary schools this week...
Natalie Nurse joins Florence Nightingale Mental Health Nurses Leadership Programme
The Trust congratulates Natalie Nurse for successfully applying to the Florence Nightingale Mental Health Nurses Leadership programme.
NOW RESOLVED: Issues with Zoom, our online appointment provider
This issue has now been resolved by the providers of Zoom. Please accept our apologies if you were not able to join your appointment during the...
‘Change needs to happen on a real systemic level’
In the latest issue of The Psychologist, Dr Tosin Bowen-Wright, Clinical Psychologist and a manager within the Camden CAMHS service, is in...Past Events
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a Virtual Group Relations Conference
This is an applied 4 day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Behind the camera: working, leading and following in organisation- An online Group Relations Conference
This 4-day online Group Relations Conference (GRC) will provide an opportunity to discover more about the challenges and rewards of organisational...
Trust Scientific Meeting: The THRIVE Framework: an approach to whole system transformation
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for staff, students and alumni. The THRIVE Framework for system change (Wolpert et al., 2019) has gained traction...
Discovering Leadership: The Secret Life of Authority and Role
How can we better understand the informal structures and systems that form, inform, and distort our organizations and our places within them? How...
Back to the Future: Authority, vulnerability, continuity and change: A Group Relations Conference celebrating 100 years of Tavistock thinking
NB. This conference has been postponed. However, we are currently we're trying to collect views on how and when to reschedule it via this survey:...
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a Group Relations Conference
This is an applied 3 day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Refugee Week event: Imagine
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. Founded in 1998 and held every year around...
On whose authority? - exploring leadership in contemporary organisation, Geneva group relations conference 2020
A Group Relations Conference in Geneva
COVID-19: Vulnerability and the Fear of Vulnerability
Join us for a special Tavistock Policy Seminar about the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on vulnerable children, adults and older people. We are...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Group Relations at the Tavistock: Where from and where to?
Time: 11:30am to 12:50pm Date: 11 May 2020 Speaker: William Halton and Members of the GRC Steering Committee Chair: Tim LeLean, GRC Steering...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Under Fire in the Consulting Room
A slow match is a very slow-burning fuse presenting only a small glowing tip whereas a quick match is one - which once ignited - burns at top...
Tavistock Policy Series: The Consultant’s Act of Freedom: Isabel Menzies Lyth 60 years on
With our leading mental health experts, our Centenary Tavistock Policy Seminar series provides an opportunity to explore our latest thinking and...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Watch me play!
Watch me Play! is an intervention to support vulnerable babies and young children. Dr Jenifer Wakelyn will explore the roots of this approach in...
Courage to Connect: Navigating the Complexities of Organisational Life - a Group Relations Conference
We live and work in complex formal and informal organisational contexts. The liveliness, energy, interest and respect that we can bring to each...
Trust Scientific Meeting: 'Oedipus Wrecked’ - Constructing the unconscious phantasy through its emergence in the analyst’s mind”
In most patients, classically recognisable Oedipal themes are present and dominant, emerging symbolically in dreams, phantasies and actions – and...
Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder: Improving Practice 2019
A Joint Conference Healthcare Conferences UK & The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation TrustResearched and produced in partnership with The...
On achieving a good enough work-life balance in General Practice
Thinking Space: On achieving a good enough work-life balance in General Practice
Trust Scientific Meeting: "Waiting Times: an exploration and update"
What does it mean to wait now? What does it mean to care now?
Fluidity – a retrospective of paintings by Dimitris Giannakopoulos
We are thrilled to be displaying a series of paintings from artist Dimitris Giannakopoulos in November at the Tavistock Centre.
Annual General Meeting 2019
We invite you to attend our 2019 Annual General Meeting
Trust Scientific Meeting “Strange meeting: the relevance of Tavistock history and methods to the Brexit crisis"
The Tavistock and Portman has a long tradition of democratically based working methods and management practices, which are in danger of being lost...
Discovering Leadership: The State we’re in and the State within - a group relations conference
Organizational life is more complex and difficult than ever. Globalisation, technology, and the rapid pace of environmental change sets us in a...
Identity, culture, and class in group and organisational life: a group relations conference
Join us in creating a three-day experiential learning institution, designed to explore ways in which groups, inter-groups and organisations...
Time-limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: a developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people by Stephen Briggs
There are drinks and light refreshments, and the opportunity to meet other guests. The contribution the book makes to current practice, and debates...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Mind your language: the vocabulary of higher education today
Universities have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades, especially since 2010. In this lecture, Stefan Collini discusses some of these...
Launch of 'New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy: Findings from Qualitative Research'
The editors of the Tavistock Clinic/Routledge Book Series (Margot Waddell, Jocelyn Catty and Kate Stratton) are pleased to invite you to the launch...
We welcome press enquiries on a broad range of subjects, not just those directly relating to mental health.
COVID-19 – changes to our services
The COVID-19 outbreak has changed many things about the way we live and work, but our mission and values remain the same. We will continue to deliver high quality clinical services, training and education to all those we support.
Latest changes to clinical services
Read about changes to how our clinical services work on our ‘Your care during COVID-19’ page »
New crisis line
If you live in Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden or Islington and are aged between 0 and 18 years old, or care for someone that is, you can now access a crisis line if you are in need of urgent mental health support or advice. Contact them on:
0800 151 0023
This line operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you are an existing patient you can also continue to contact your clinical team in the usual way.
Self-referrals for Open Minded
Camden Child and Young Person Mental Health Service (also known as Open Minded) is taking self-referrals. Read more on the Open Minded page »
Latest changes to education and training programmes
If you are thinking about studying with us, our student recruitment team are working as usual and course interviews are taking place online via Zoom, which is very easy and safe to use. We will be starting our next academic year in September 2020 and the first two terms will be delivered online. If you have any questions about our courses or our application process, please see our FAQ's here.
More resources
We are working with other NHS organisations to provide support in this difficult time.
Together In Mind
This project provides regular short podcasts from wellbeing and mental health practitioners within the network. They will be directly responding to what is coming out of out the ‘How Are You Today’ check in survey.
Visit the Together in Mind website »
Thriving Plus: Helping families at home
In the current climate the amount of content advising children, young people and families on how to manage their mental health and wellbeing may be overwhelming. Our new 'Thriving Plus' page contains reliable content, ranging from videos to activities for children, advice for parents/carers and Government guidance.
Head to the new Thriving Plus: Helping families at home page »