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Our Charitable Work
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All BTC/HTC Practitioners commit at least 25% of their time to the provision of low-cost and no-cost therapy. Any surplus generated from our mainstream work is ploughed back into our charitable services. You can help someone in your community access the support they need by contributing using the button below.
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Can't donate? Spread the word! If you're enjoying our newsletter, send it to your friends and get them to subscribe. Or if you know someone who might be looking to start therapy, send them our way.
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This Week
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Hey folks! And happy Pride Month.
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In this week's newsletter, we will be looking at what Pride Month can mean for mental health, along with our usual mental health news picks and local wellbeing events.
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Following on from our last newsletter, our CEO Kerry Evans has written a thought provoking piece about the secrets we keep and what we choose to reveal to the world, and what that may reveal about ourselves with some exploratory work.
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We also have a feature highlighting the work of one of our partners, Refugee Radio, ahead of World Refugee Week.
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"Rainbow retail and Pride marches dominate the calendar in the summer months. If you're from the LGBTQ+ community, this can bring up all sorts of emotions. Whilst there is a lot to celebrate and be proud of, it is also a reminder of how much more we need to do to live full and equal lives. As we reflect on what Pride means to us and those we support, we can spark new conversations, insights and opportunities to learn and grow."
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Therapist Sonal Thakrar shares their thoughts for UKCP on what Pride month can mean for our mental health.
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What is your super-injunction hiding?
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A few words from our CEO Kerry Evans
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The instinct to modify ourselves to gain control of our environment is complicated by the mixed messages of Western 21st century culture which tell us we have the freedom to be anything we choose whilst also dictating very clearly what we should want to be. If the church used to tell us how to measure our worth, now it’s the corporate giants who promote ideals of status, wealth, beauty and success.
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Like T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock, people have always been inclined to “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” but the technologies of the modern age – social media, filters, cosmetic surgery – allow us to edit and curate a public image that has little in common with our authentic selves. When we do this we are issuing a sort of super-injunction.
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A super-injunction is a legal directive that forbids both the public disclosure of information of a particular issue and also any disclosure of the existence of the directive itself. It was famously used by legal firm Carter Ruck to prohibit reporting of its client’s internal inquiry into the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump scandal which resulted in the poisoning of thousands of people. Celebrities have used it to prevent similarly unwelcome revelations.
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Remember the Ryan Giggs adultery scandal? Josh Cohen writes brilliantly about Giggs’s self-defeating “bid for ownership rights over his private life, in the name of protecting his public fame and, inevitably, the revenue it generates.” And how his super-injunction “became an exemplary attestation to the vanity of trying to dictate what others see when they look at you.”
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You can super-injunction your life by controlling what you reveal and instilling fear in others to stop them prying, but in so doing you draw attention to the need to hide something and you inadvertently disclose your own shame.
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Exploratory therapy, invites you to wonder about the secrets that you keep. Perhaps you are hiding part of yourself because, at this stage, you want to nurture it privately; an evolving gender identity, a desire for a different life, a broken heart. But there might be other parts that you are keeping secret even from yourself, things that could be the key to the fulfilment of your unique potential, if only you could get to know them and, eventually, start introducing them to others.
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Mental Health in the News
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Events Calendar
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Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) are hosting a completely free wellbeing day, complete with reflexology, hand massage, drumming and art sessions. There will be breathwork and WRAP workshops throughout the day, and a chance to meet some of your local community services.
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Wednesday 19th June, 10am-2pm.
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Kings Centre, Eastbourne.
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e-wellbeing's June social is a chance for young people age 11-25 to come together and share their creative skills whilst exploring LGBTQ+ rights and mental health (and to eat free pizza, so win win).
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Wednesday 26th June, 6:30pm.
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Reed House, 47 Church Road, Hove.
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Wandering Emotions walks are free and packed full of activities to get children talking about mental wellbeing. Activities are designed towards children aged 5-12 with an accompanying adult, but all family members are welcome!
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Hove Park, Goldstone Crescent.
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MenWalkTalk is a charity that organises walk & talk sessions around Sussex to encourage connection, activity, and for men to speak more about their mental health. Check out which ones are coming up near you.
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World Refugee Week
17th - 23rd June
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With World Refugee Week approaching, we wanted to highlight the work of one of our partners. Thanks to funding, over the last couple of years we have been working with Refugee Radio to provide free trauma-informed therapy for refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrants in the local area.
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Refugee Radio is an independent charity dedicated to human rights, which provides mental health support groups, case work and advocacy services, and amplifies refugee voices through their radio show and podcasts.
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Funding is coming to an end for this particular project, which has helped a lot of people in really significant ways. Low and no-cost therapy is not cheap to deliver, particularly for our refugee work which almost always involves complex and long-term work. If you wish to donate to our low- and no-cost therapy services, you can do so through the link below. this money goes directly towards someone else's therapy session, and is always hugely appreciated!
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Book your Initial Consultation
Hastings Therapy Centre and Brighton Therapy Centre have vacancies for therapy throughout the week. We offer individual, relationship and group therapies.
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We also have a number of low-cost appointments available, which are free to book in Hastings until the end of June!
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Book your consultation now:
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"I was stuck in a cycle of depression and group therapy helped in gaining more awareness and getting out of that cycle."
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Have Your Say
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Let us know what you would like to see in our Newsletter!
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Meet our Practitioners
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Browse the practitioners who offer therapeutic services from a range of modalities and specialities
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Meet our Employed Team
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Meet the friendly team behind BTC and HTC who will help you find the help you may need
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Meet our Trustees
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Meet our trustees who offer their valued experience and knowledge to support our charity
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Charity Number: 1150032 | Company Number: 07791021
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