Welcome To The Arbours Crisis Centre Web-Site

The Arbours Crisis Centre is a facility of the Arbours Housing Association, a registered charity founded in 1970 in order to assist people in emotional distress and offer alternatives to traditional psychiatric treatment.

About The Centre

The Crisis Centre was established in 1973 to provide immediate and intensive psychotherapeutic support for individuals, couples or families threatened by sudden mental and social breakdown. Many people helped by the Centre have suffered from long-standing, severe emotional difficulties.

Three psychotherapists live at the Centre, a substantial Edwardian house located in a quiet residential neighbourhood of North London. They are assisted by a resource group of psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and other professionals. For the resident therapists, this house is their home. People who come to live at the Centre with them are their guests. The Centre accommodates up to six guests.

The Crisis Centre provides support in three ways:

1. By a phone-in service
2. By offering individual or family consultations
3. By a unique combination of accommodation and psychotherapy at the Centre with three live-in therapists.

About This Website

Our web-site provides detailed information about the Centre, both for people seeking help (whether for themselves or for others), and for professionals working within the field. It also provides information about other Arbours services and publications. If you have any questions that are not answered by this site, then please don't hesitate to get in touch.