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The Awareness Centre

Michaela McCarthy is the founder and Managing Director of The Awareness Centre (TAC). She also works in private practice as a counsellor, psychotherapist, psychosexual & relationship therapist and clinical supervisor in Clapham SW4.

Our philosophy here at The Awareness Centre is to provide a safe and confidential environment for individuals, couples, families and groups to explore all aspects of their well being. We take a holistic approach. Our clients have the opportunity to heal and grow on many levels, integrating their medical, physical, psychological, emotional, social, nutritional and spiritual needs.

Michaela and her dedicated team of staff have developed the Centre over the past five years, delivering medical and therapy services to patients and clients living in London. In addition, some individuals travel from all over the UK and overseas to visit the many practitioners who work at the Centre.

Complementary Therapy

The following holistic treatments are available at the Centre: Acupuncture, Ayurvedic Nutrition, Bach Flower Remedies, Facial-Holistic Aromatherapy, Healing, Homeopathy, Hypnotherapy, Hypnobirthing, Massage (Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue, Holistic, Hot Stone, Indian Head, Lymphatic Drainage, Natural Face Lift, Pregnancy, Sports, Swedish, Thai yoga, Tui Na, Ayurvedic), Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Osteopathy - Cranial, Physiotherapy, Reflexology, Reflexology-Maternity and Reiki.

Counselling and Psychotherapy Services  

We provide patients with private and NHS counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, psychosexual & relationship therapy and life coaching. We work with patients who want to pay for therapy with their private medical insurance and we are a provider for BUPA, AXA PPP, Aviva, Standard Life, Pru-Health, Cigna and WPA. We also have a private Low Cost Service.

Our therapists use many different approaches to therapy: Cognitive-Behavioural, Integrative, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Existential, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Psychoanalytic, Systemic and Schema Therapy. We offer therapy for depression, addiction (alcohol, drugs, food, sex, co-dependency and gambling), eating disorders, relationship difficulties, bereavement, anger, anxiety & stress, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, and more. We also provide individual and group clinical supervision for practicing therapists.

GP Services

The South London Clinic at The Awareness Centre is a private GP service specialising in Sexual Health screening, Botox ®, Medical Examinations i.e.  pre-employment/ insurance / male and female health checks and travel advice & vaccinations. The service is operated by two local GPs with over 40 years of experience in General Practice. We liaise with the other services available in The Awareness Centre.

Below is a summary of services provided:

• General medical problems
• Childhood vaccinations / Travel vaccinations / Booster vaccinations e.g. tetanus
• Ear syringing 
• Routine health investigations e.g. Urine checks / BP / Cholesterol / Sugar levels 
• Health screening for men and women
• Botox ®
• Pre-employment medicals / Insurance medicals
• Drug testing and testing for illicit substances
• Sexual Health Clinic:  Assessment / Investigation / Advice and Treatment

Appointments are available daily by ringing The South London Clinic at The Awareness Centre. There are fixed appointments on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Should these hours not be suitable the receptionists will endeavour to arrange a time that is mutually beneficial.

Psychiatric Clinic

Dr Roger Howells, a London consultant psychiatrist provides a private psychiatric clinic, The Sloane Court Clinic - Clapham, at the Centre. He also has a clinic in Chelsea and in Suffolk. He works with a range of problems – depression, anxiety, panic disorder, stress, emotional dysregulation and low distress tolerance, amongst many others.

He is skilled in the assessment and management of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and can provide second opinions and carer advice on these, though feels the best ongoing management is done through the community mental health team approach. He also manages alcohol dependence.

He is skilled in the specialist prescription of psychiatric medication and fully familiar with all forms of psychological treatment. Adult attention deficit disorder, autistic spectrum disorder including Asperger’s syndrome and developmental speech disorders can be managed at the Chelsea branch of the clinic.

Urgent appointments are available and the policy is to have no waiting list. Dr Howells is always available to speak to General Practitioners and others about potential referrals and can be contacted through The Awareness Centre switchboard.

Musculoskeletal and Osteopathy Clinic

The Awareness Centre Musculoskeletal Clinic provides osteopathy and physiotherapy in South West London. This service combines a multidisciplinary approach to many chronic muscular and joint disorders. With practitioners onsite every day we are able to provide treatments to deal with problems such as overuse injuries, tension and stress aches and pains, shoulder and neck pain, arthritis, back pain and headaches.

Beauty Therapy

The Awareness Centre’s highly experienced Beauty Therapists offer a range of holistic treatments. Chose between our Express 30 minute Facial which is ideal for those short of time, or our Organic Deep Cleansing Facial. These Facials include cleansing, exfoliation and a face mask, finishing with a neck and shoulder massage to ease away tension.

The Holistic Aromatherapy Facial offers an extra indulgent treatment using essential oils individually blended to suit your skin type. Look and feel younger with our Natural Face Lift Massage which uses techniques from Japanese and Indian face massage to give you a more youthful look.

Our therapists also offer Full or Express Manicures and Pedicures using vibrant Essie nail colours. Eye Treatments including tinting, shaping and perming are a great way to enhance your eyes naturally and especially useful for those who like to wake up with bright eyes.

A range of men’s and women’s waxing treatments are also available using warm and hot wax to gently remove unwanted hair, and waxing treatments are finished with a tea tree cream to help sooth the skin.

All treatments are tailored to the individuals needs using high quality products.

Courses, Workshops, CPD Seminars and Classes

Our programme of courses, workshops, CPD seminars and classes will hopefully be of interest to some of you.

The teaching on our courses is of a high standard and you will reach your full potential and gain a lot of experience in whatever you choose to train in, therefore, please take a look at our programme. We also have courses to support parents and families, for example, baby massage, first aid and hypnobirthing.  

Our workshops provide space for clients to explore their thoughts and feelings in order to make sense of themselves and others. They tend to be more creative and by sharing your experiences with others you will be able to develop, change and grow.

Our CPD seminars are for practitioners who want to learn and discuss other approaches to therapy.  On completion of these seminars therapists will be awarded a CPD certificate of CPD hours and attendance. 

We also have a wide range of Yoga and Pilates classes.  All our classes will support individuals at different levels of flexibility, fitness and wellbeing.

Organisational Development

We work with human resources departments and employee assistance programmes, as well as designing ad hoc programmes for individual organisations. We also work with addiction and offer a programme to support employees returning to work after a period of personal or professional challenges. We can provide organisational and executive coaching, which can incorporate NLP techniques. We can train directors and managers to support and develop their teams and organisations.

Addiction Recovery Programme

Our addiction day programme offers a full clinical assessment for individuals who are struggling with addiction and dual diagnoses issues.  We work with alcohol, drug, eating disorders, sex and love, co-dependency, gambling and work addiction.  We provide individual and couple therapy, as well as running therapy groups, a family programme and weekend workshops.  During the therapeutic work we will include twelve-step philosophy and explore the disease concept of addiction, CBT and other approaches to therapy.

Our recovery programme also provides a psychiatric service which includes; a full assessment and support with medication and we have a GP surgery where we can offer a full medical assessment.

This programme is suitable for people who have completed a twelve step programme at a residential treatment centre and value their sobriety, who want support with deeper issues, cross addiction, relationships, family, work, education and so on.  We also work with Life Works and Nova Vida residential treatment centres.

We also provide Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings at the centre.

The Centre

If you are interested in any of our therapies, surgeries, clinics, programmes, courses, workshops and classes here at the Centre, please feel free to contact us and one of our receptionists will be able to book you an appointment. If you would like to speak to a practitioner direct then we can arrange a ‘phone conference or face-to-face meeting at the Centre.

If you are interested in any of our promotions, hiring a room, buying a gift voucher or exhibiting art in one of our art exhibitions then please contact Reception and they will be happy to help.

All of our practitioners are qualified, registered and fully insured. We have a variety of therapies - we are sure that we will be able to provide the appropriate practitioner to respond to your needs.