Offer
Offer
Psychological support
The Polish Psychologists Association offers mental health support, and other services to help you achieve mental well-being.
In emergency situations, in situations that require immediate assistance, contact:
the nearest place of residence A&E service
West London Mental Health Trust (24 hours) 03001234244
In times of crisis, the following may also be helpful:
SANEline – Psychological help in crisis situations and emotionally difficult moments
Tel .: 0300 304 7000 – From 4.30 pm to 10.30 pm, all year round.
CALM – Helpline & Web Chat available from 17:00 to 24:00, every day
Tel .: 0800 58 58 58 https://www.thecalmzone.net/help/worried-about-someone/
Samaritans – All-year-round psychological assistance.
Tel .: 116 123 – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Email: jo@samaritans.org
https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help-you/contact-us
The Polish Psychologists Association offers a number of services to help you achieve mental well-being, see our offer.
Psychological consultations
Psychological consultations offer the support of a psychologist and psychotherapist who can support you in journey to: realise your strengths and weaknesses, work on your assertiveness, the willingness to free yourself from suffering and emotional disorders and strengthen your self-esteem.
Consultation is aimed at recognizing the client’s situation, providing immediate help or referring them to therapy or other forms of help. It can be conducted in the form of a single session, a series of meetings or as the first step to further therapy.
We provide help to people experiencing emotional problems and life difficulties, such as:
- feeling lost, depressed, hopelessness
- ·anxiety
- relationship problems,
- personal difficulties
- lack of self-confidence
- low self-esteem
- problems with assertiveness,
- a feeling of emotional or emptiness, sense of meaninglessness in life,
- problems with sleeping
- difficulty coping with stress,
- traumatic experiences (events or significant changes).
Make an appointment
If you experience any of these problems, contact us. We treat each person individually and we always look for the best way to help.
The session lasts 50 minutes.
The length of therapy depends on the problem faced by the client, but it does not exceed 15 meetings, taking place at least once a week.
Couples therapy
Couples therapy aims to help find barriers and obstacles to effective communication in a relationship. It also helps couples who are currently experiencing a crisis, mourning, or other life change that affects the quality of their relationship.
Family Clinic
The aim of the Family Clinic is to support and help children, adolescents and families in a wide spectrum of difficulty and crisis situations, overcoming problems, improving the quality of functioning and deepening relationships in families.
We offer professional assistance as part of:
- individual and family consultations
- short-term family and individual therapy for a child
- re-education classes with specific indications
- consultation with a Polish-speaking therapist
- other methods of supporting the family adapted to its individual needs
- eating disorders
- difficulty coping with stress
- traumatic experiences (events or significant changes)
Meetings take place with the written consent of the parents / guardians or an adult student. The session lasts 50 minutes.
Admissions
We have created regulations defining the terms and conditions, which aim to keep the high standards and quality of your sessions with our volunteers.
If you wish to book an appointment, contact our volunteers at: Konsultacje@polishpsychologists.org
The waiting time for a consultation varies from several days to several weeks. During the first consultation, the consultant will conduct an interview to learn about your needs and expectations. You will be obliged to complete questionnaires and diagnostic tests. This will help the consultants to create a further care plan and allow them to refer you to the appropriate therapist.
Psychological support is tailored to the individual needs of the client. The duration of one meeting is approximately 50 minutes.
All information provided during the assessment and in the survey is treated as confidential within the scope of the organization. In order to ensure the highest standard of psychological assistance, each PPA consultant attends supervision, where he discusses his psychological practice with the supervisor and other psychologists, respecting the client’s anonymity.
This confidentiality may, however, be broken in the event of a risk to self or others.
The client has the right to cancel two sessions 7 days in advance. These sessions are not deducted from the pool of sessions contracted and will not be charged. You can make changes by phone or email. If you cancel your visit on a different date, you might be asked to pay 100% of the costs of the cancelled visit.
If you cancel the meeting twice, all reservations made by you will be suspended. Failure to attend 2 consecutive sessions without an attempt to contact the client is interpreted as a lack of readiness to continue therapy/consultations and is tantamount to termination of the contract.
If for any reason you foresee that you will not be able to arrive on time for a meeting, please notify him or her by email or telephone. When we do not receive information from you – our specialist is obliged to wait for you for 15 minutes.
Persons on the waiting list are informed by email about available appointments.
PPA is a charitable organization based on the work of volunteers and is mainly funded by donations and membership fees. In order to develop our offer and support those in need, we need constant financial support.
The donation for the session is based on annual family / personal income before tax is deducted. The session fee should be approximately 0.1% of the annual income of the family/person:
- <15 thousand pounds per year / difficult financial situation – the amount determined individually, preferentially minimum £ 10
- <20,000 pounds per year – £ 20
- <30,000 pounds per year – £ 30
- <40 thousand pounds per year – £ 40
- > 50 thousand pounds per year – the amount determined individually
Unemployed and/or benefit recipients who are in a difficult financial situation may be partially or fully exempt from session fees.
Our projects
The Polish Psychologists Association offers a range of services to help you achieve mental well-being.
Women's Academy
The Women’s Academy is a project open to those who seek constant growth and expansion. Our team of exceptional volunteers organize educational workshops and training aiming to empower women, strengthen social activity, as well as to share women’s energy, find joy in life and support each other in everyday problems.
We invite women struggling with the challenges of the modern world who want to free themselves from stress caused by constantly facing limiting beliefs, stereotypes and prejudices.
Do you want to know more?
The Women’s Academy project also covers the issues of gynaecological, sexual and psychological health of women in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner.
All topics covered by the Women’s Academy program are set in British reality and culture. Therefore the participants of the program receive adequate and up-to-date information on the place and possible costs of treatment/assistance in Great Britain.
Our statutory assumption is to support Poles living in the UK in the field of broadly understood mental health. Due to its invaluable role in everyday life, through the Women’s Academy Project, we want to provide you, our recipients, with tools that will help you gain skills and independence in preventing negative impact, recognizing and influencing your well-being.
Our goals:
- Providing you with psychological knowledge on how to properly care for your mental health
- Acquainting you with the possibilities and tools for self-development at every stage of life - both in earlier adolescence, in adulthood, etc.
- We want to show you that development is possible also in later years
- Promotion of mental health and the services of specialists - psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, etc. We want you to always have the First Aid Kit for mental health with you'
- Indication of how to prevent behaviours that have negative effects (for ourselves and for the environment)
Examples of the workshop:
Intimate health of women: menstruation, menopause, pregnancy and childbirth, intimate infections in the form of bacterial vaginosis and candidiasis, sexual health clinic, sexually transmitted diseases, health of the appendages (cervical health, uterus, ovaries), bleeding after sexual intercourse, organ plastic surgery internal and external intimate places, etc.
Women’s sexual health: female sexual health clinic, contraception, practical advice on registration and visits to the NHS GUM clinic, female sexual dysfunctions (sexual dysfunctions, sexual arousal disorders, orgasmic disorders, sexual aversion, painful intercourse, vaginismus), pain-related sexual dysfunction , sexuality of bisexual and homosexual women, etc.
Psychological health of women: sexual health of women in a relationship, talking about their needs, communication, partnership, sense of power, fantasies, cybersexuality, LGBT, burnout of passion, the relationship of various years of age, love phases, desire phases, jealousy, betrayal, etc.
Coaching
Coaching aims to unlock a person’s potential in order to maximize their performance and increase their effectiveness.
Coaching focuses on future opportunities, not past mistakes. It works faster and more effectively than traditional adult education methods. It strengthens the client and his environment, increases the sense of self-agency, self-confidence, and motivates to express individuality and, as a result, to a more happy and authentic life.
If you want to know more, write to us!
Volunteers
Research department DOPRA
DOPRA is a project that conducts research in the field of psychology and related fields. Our volunteers focus on a reliable and professional approach aiming to fill the gaps in the current knowledge, but also to draw practical conclusions.
We invite volunteers who:
- graduated in psychology, statistics, sociology or related studies
- already have some experience in conducting research (maybe a master's thesis)
- they are familiar with concepts and psychological concepts
- are interested in scientific research in the field of psychology
- are able to independently use data analysis programs (eg SPSS) or are willing to learn
- are able to efficiently use Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- are ready and motivated to work on every stage of a research project, i.e. literature review, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, creation of popular science articles
- are well versed in the social media environment, i.e. creating content for Instagram and Facebook in the field of research
- If you want to know more, write to us!
Blog & Newsletter
PPA is a great place to expand your passions. You don’t have to be a volunteer in the ‘Newsletter’ project to write articles for our blog. Our professional team is always happy to help.
If writing is your passion and you want to share your psychological knowledge with others, join our team.
If there is anything you want to read about on our blog, feel free to share your ideas.
If you want to know more, write to us!
