INTEGRATION PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES

 

 

Pilamaya Centre for Integration Psychotherapy (PCIP)

What We Do

 

Welcome to Integration Psychotherapy Services. We are a community interest company within the Pilamaya Centre working to expand access to private psychotherapy. We serve members of our community who have been unable to get the mental health support they need through the NHS or the private sector.

We are committed to providing immediate relief to those in our local communities who need it most, by matching them with trainee and graduate integration psychotherapists able to provide reduced-cost psychotherapy to those facing mental health distress and financial hardship. By supplying trainees on the Integration Psychotherapy course with high-quality clinical supervision throughout their therapy placements, we ensure that clients get the quality support they deserve, while raising the level of clinical expertise in the private therapy sector and the quality of care available in subsidised therapy.

 

Our approach is intended to not only offer hope to those suffering in our own community, but to inspire other organisations to re-think the role the private therapy sector can play in helping to address the UK’s mental health crisis in these unprecedented times. We believe that all human beings have a right to quality mental health support they can access in a matter of weeks and months rather than years.

 

 

What We Do

 

Welcome to Integration Psychotherapy Services. We are a community interest company within the Pilamaya Centre working to expand access to private psychotherapy. We serve members of our community who have been unable to get the mental health support they need through the NHS or the private sector.

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing immediate relief to those in our local communities who need it most, by matching them with trainee and graduate integration psychotherapists able to provide reduced-cost psychotherapy to those facing mental health distress and financial hardship. By supplying trainees on the Integration Psychotherapy course with high-quality clinical supervision throughout their therapy placements, we ensure that clients get the quality support they deserve, while raising the level of clinical expertise in the private therapy sector and the quality of care available in subsidised therapy.

Our approach is intended to not only offer hope to those suffering in our own community, but to inspire other organisations to re-think the role the private therapy sector can play in helping to address the UK’s mental health crisis in these unprecedented times. We believe that all human being have a right to quality mental health support they can access in a matter of weeks and months rather than years.

 

 

Further Information

Our Costs

We strive to make our services accessible to everyone at an affordable cost.

Our sliding scale for sessions with our placement therapists ranges from £20 to £40. For therapists who have completed their placements with us, the rate is between £40 and £60 per session. There is also a £20 admin fee that is taken at the time of booking our initial 20 minute phone call.  We will discuss what payment amount works best for you based on your circumstances in this call.

Your contributions support our efforts to uphold high standards of supervision and provide ongoing training for our therapists.

Steps in the Process

Once you have registered your interest, we will contact you by email to arrange a 20-minute phone conversation. We will match you to one of our therapists and put you in touch with them shortly after. Your therapist will dedicate the first one or two sessions to give you space to discuss your medical, psychological, and personal history and your current difficulties or reasons for seeking therapy. You mustn’t be experiencing extreme psychological distress during your assessment. 

We ask that you commit to at least eight weeks of therapy with us, and you can stay as long as the therapeutic alliance is working for you. 

More about Integration Psychotherapy

Integration Psychotherapy brings something new into this field. It combines approaches from talking therapy, somatic practices and multifaith paths with a science-based understanding of the human system and the individuation process.

An Integration Psychotherapist knows how the body responds to pressure and can share methods to help people bring balance to the system. They have undergone profound processes that enable them to understand how the system responds to crisis and know how to help people integrate their experiences and better understand the self. They all work uniquely, yet all have the breadth to facilitate talking, mindfulness, meditation, breathing practices and movement. The whole process is held by somatic enquiry, which supports the client to come into the here and now.

All trainee psychotherapists working with IPS are in their final year of training and have been cleared to offer therapy under the guidance of clinical supervision. Our therapist are supported by supervisors specifically trained by us in Somatic Supervision.

What Clients are Saying

Below are a few words of feedback we take from our clients at seven weeks.

16-10-23 Brilliant, amazing, very helpful. You’ve no idea how much this has helped me.

17-10-23 It’s helped me understand my life and the way my mind works; I was going down a bit of a bad path but therapy has defiantly helped. I wish I’d have started a long time ago because it might have helped me to understand myself more and make better sense of my relationships.

30-10-23 it’s been really powerful and useful. It’s been just what I have been looking for. The flexibility and combination of different techniques and the focus on the body is just what I’m after. I’ve found that there is some hope, that the therapy is helping me to embody, understand and integrate.

30-10-23 Extremely helpful and really comfortable. It’s help me get my head around quite a lot things so much, I feel that it been life changing for me. The method also really suits me. I wasn’t sure how it would go over zoom, but my therapist has a good way of making it feel like she is in the room. She’s made me push myself out of my comfort zone and go with it. I’ve opened myself to more of myself – I was a bit hesitant about the spiritual – woo woo aspect of it, but everything we have done has worked and I’m opening to more. I did not have high exceptions because of my prior experiences with therapy.
I was willing to make the changes, I wanted change but I just didn’t know how to, it seems like it was the right time for me and everything is falling into place with it.

04-01-24 Amazing really, really helpful, it’s made a lot of difference, we have covered a lot of stuff in a short period of time. I felt like I dealt with quite a lot of stuff over the time. Many things were brought out, looked at and integrated that have been building up over the years.

13-06-23 It’s been really good – it’s a different approach to the counselling and CBT that I have done. I find that it’s less about trying to find solutions and change how I’m thinking and more about trying to recognise how I’m feeling. I feel like there is a lot of work to do, and it’s hard but I’m understanding why it’s necessary to learn about what it is like to be me.

Get in Touch

You can complete the client registration form using the link below. Please be aware this form is only the first step in registering for therapy through IPS, and completing the form does not guarantee that we will be able to provide you with our services at this time. However, we cannot assess eligibility or answer questions related to your eligibility until you have completed this step. For all other enquiries related to Integration Psychotherapy Services, please  email shaura@thepcip.org.

 

If you are currently experiencing feeling suicidal or think you may be experiencing a psychological crisis, please reach out to The Samaritans by dialling 116 123 from any UK landline or mobile. The Samaritans are available to speak to you from any UK phone (free of charge) 24 hours a day,  365 days a year.

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Cost should never be a hindrance to healing, but in communities where public mental health services are increasingly out of reach, financial hardship means prolonged suffering for thousands of adults... It is more critical now than ever that creative solutions are brought forth to address the mental health crisis in the United Kingdom.

 

– Jennifer Smallwood, Co-founder & Director

Pilamaya Centre for Integration Psychotherapy (PCIP)
Integration Psychotherapy Services - Shaura Hall

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