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We provide transformational mental health and social care courses that will equip and empower you throughout your career.  Every year, we ask some of our current students to feature in our annual prospectus and we hope you enjoy reading a selection of their profiles below.


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Meet Sagal, a student on Child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy (M80)


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Meet Will, a student on Introduction to counselling and psychotherapy (BD12)


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Meet Midge, a student on our Tavistock qualification in consultation (D10C)


Jason_ShonibaraMeet Jason, a student on Child, community and educational psychology (M4)


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Meet Chaya, a student on Systemic psychotherapy (M6)


Shanah_D65 studentMeet Shanah, a student on Psychodynamic reflective practice in mental health (D65)


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Meet Martijn, a student on Emotional care of babies, children, young people and families (EC1)


Sam RowlandsMeet Sam, a social worker

Graduate of Social work (M23)


Neera_Dhingra-removebg-preview.jpgMeet Neera, a counsellor looking after the emotional wellbeing of students at a London secondary school 

Graduate of Child, adolescent and family mental wellbeing: multidisciplinary practice (D24)


Judith_Bennett-removebg-.pngMeet Judith, a safeguarding team manager

Graduate of Systemic psychotherapy (M6)



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Meet Syma, a counsellor


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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

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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 »