Our rooms are now open again for appointments, adhering to Public Health England recommendations on safe social distancing.
Therapists are still contactable by their NAOS emails, our contacts page or info@naos.org.uk
About
NAOS is an organisational member of the BACP : Registration Number 00275283
Naos is an intercultural therapy centre. We offer a range of therapeutic approaches and techniques to adults, young people, children, families and groups
Our areas of expertise are working with children and young people, their parents, carers and professionals.
As qualified therapists we offer traditional therapies whilst working intuitively and innovatively to offer alternative methods which challenge the barriers some may have to a traditional clinical approach, which ensures we make therapy accessible to all.
Our Aims.
Attachment, Relational and Intercultural approach
- To promote mental health and emotional wellbeing in all people.
- To support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people, with specific support around those that have experienced significant trauma and are often perceived as hard to reach.
- To support families, carers and professionals in their work with children and young people.
- To provide innovative and alternative ways of working to support the hardest to reach.
- To provide longer term therapy, based on an attachment and relational approach.
- To recognise that we live and work in a diverse and multicultural society; our aim is to reflect that in our organisation and practice.
How we started
NAOS was set up by a collective of therapists who hold the fundamental core values and beliefs that therapy should be accessible to all and that recovery is possible.
From our experience of working with often multiply disadvantaged, complex and hard to reach people, the collective recognised the need to do things differently and to make therapy more approachable, achievable and accessible for all. The team at NAOS have developed models of working that safely reach out to those in need and to those who may struggle to engage with traditional clinical therapy.
NAOS started from the understanding that for an organisation to be accessible it needs to be inclusive and consistent with the different cultural backgrounds, world-views, traditions and languages of the multicultural community in which we live. Click here to see why we exist.
Moving Forward.
Outcomes
Children and young people shared they are in an emotionally better place and able to move on with their lives
Children and Young People stopped participating in risk taking behaviours
Young People moved forward into further education, employment or training
Testimonials.
Who We Work With
We work with individuals, couples, families, groups, organisations and services that support children and young people. We support multiagency working and work with social care, adoption support services, primary and secondary mainstream schools and alternative education provisions, statutory and voluntary organisations.