6 Church Lane
London
N8 7BU

Tel: 020 8340 7646
Tel: 020 8348 6466
Web: www.arboursassociation.org

The Arbours Association was established in 1970 to provide personal, psychotherapeutic support and places to live outside mental hospitals for people in emotional distress. Since then the organisation has expanded to provide three therapeutic communities, a crisis centre, a psychotherapy service and a training programme in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Arbours helps individuals, couples and families including those who suffer from depressive or psychotic breakdown, self-mutilation, adolescent crises, personality or eating disorders, sexual problems, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and critical life events such as marital breakdown and redundancy.

Arbours' services include the following.

• The communities offer a dynamic therapeutic environment which includes group, individual, art and movement therapy. They are particularly suited to men and women with serious emotional and social problems who are able to assume some social responsibilities.
• The psychotherapy service is an assessment facility whose aim is to refer individuals, couples and families to the most appropriate service within or outside Arbours, or to offer long or short psychotherapeutic interventions. Such interventions can often mitigate the need for medication.