Women's Therapy Centre

This archive is not yet catalogued. The following is a temporary description which may change before cataloguing is completed:

Organisational and clinical records of the Women's Therapy Centre, London. The collection includes material relating to the organisation, governance and funding of the Centre; its psychotherapy and link working services, which met clients' urgent needs prior to therapy; outreach activities; marketing and research work. It also includes client files, clinical papers and personnel files, which are closed for data protection purposes. The collection comprises paper, photographic, audio visual and digital material.

Acc 2821, received February 2026, comprises additional organisational records of the Women's Therapy Centre (dissolved March 2019). Includes annual reports; AGM reports and minutes; reviews of the service conducted towards the end of its time; clinical audit observations re. the Centre's closure; policies and procedures; reports re. the possibility of merging with another organisation; finance committee meeting papers; memorandum of association and dissolution letters; clinical sub-committee meeting papers; a 2011 business plan; 40th anniversary conference papers; information resources; trustee minutes and meeting papers; and ex-staff files. Also includes a limited edition print by Susan Hiller relating to Freud archives. Editions of the print were sold at auction to raise funds for the Women's Therapy Centre. 1990s-2020, 2 boxes and 1 outsize screenprint.

c.1970s-2019

58 transfer boxes, 5.15 GB digital files

Donated by the Trustees of the Women's Therapy Centre in March 2019.

The Women's Therapy Centre was a British registered charity established in 1976 by Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum. The Centre, located in Holloway, London, offered individual and group psychotherapy services to women, with a particular commitment to offering psychotherapy to women whose needs might not otherwise be met elsewhere and who would not usually have access to therapy. Its clients included women affected by gender violence, trafficking, domestic slavery, forced marriage, honour violence and FGM as well as women with disabilities and long term medical conditions. The Women's Therapy Centre closed in March 2019 due to funding difficulties. Susie Orbach, feminist and psychotherapist, discusses the origins of the Women's Therapy Centre in a British Library recording here, part of the "Sisterhood and after" collection of oral history interviews with feminists from the Women’s Liberation Movement.

The organisation's website has been archived by the Internet Archive and can be accessed here: https://web.archive.org/web/20181230091703/http://womenstherapycentre.co.uk/.

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