Residents

During COVID-19 residents rooms are booked in four slots:

• Morning (am) 8am-11am and 11am-2pm £11 per hour
• Afternoon (pm) 2pm-5pm and 5pm-9pm £12 per hour

About our rooms

We have five therapy rooms and one seminar room each individually named after places in the world that are important to us. Each room has been thoughtfully created to reflect and embrace culture and diversity. And each therapy room has an original piece of artwork that reflects its cultural inspiration. Each room will have a glass vase with fresh green stems provided weekly by our local florist. The space is available to use from 7:00am- 10:00 pm Monday – Sunday. Weekend rentals are available from a single room to the whole practice. See our Residents and Members offers.

COVID-19 - Practice Safety

To ensure the safety of all who use Aashna we have the following in place for both therapists and clients:

• Face masks in communal areas
• Hand cleaning and sanitiser stations, hand sanitiser in each room and antibacterial and viral sanitising products to wipe down surfaces, sofas/seats after client, door handles etc. This is done after each session
• Staggered room timings for sessions to limit overlap of clients and therapists beween sessions
• All rooms have windows for fresh air and adhere to two meter social distancing
• COVID-19 Practice Procedure; A step by step guide as to how to work safely as possible in the practice
• Re-usable face shields available for therapists. If you plan to use one of our face shields, you will have one to keep as your own which you can take home to wash and reuse.
• The practice throughly cleaned and disinfected every week
• Social distancing signage to reinforce safe practice
• Waiting area is closed: clients are encouraged to arrive on time to go straight to the therapy room
• Kitchen facilities for individual use only not for communal use
• Toilet facilitates when used we ask all surfaces to be wiped down by clients and therapists. Including washbasin taps. Hand towels to be used as normal cleaned and replaced weekly
• An draft agreement between clients and therapists regarding C19 symptoms that can be adapted and shared with clients

Members

The Aashna Membership aims to offer flexibility to therapists and their private practice. After COVID-19 regulations unlimited ad-hoc bookings at a rate of £14/hr in our beautiful Nordbhan and Nakuru rooms. As we are working with COVID guidelines at present, Aashna members are able to book ad- hocs in the resident rooms as well as the Nordbahn and the Nakuru if you so wish to do so. However, if someone wants to book a slot in a resident room, we will give you first option to take the slot or give you a week’s notice to move to another room or time. £179.00 annual membership includes the following benefits:

• Consultation on private practice
• Listing on our Google optimised therapist website page
• Annual in house CPD – two-day experiential and explorative workshops on a range of issues exploring diversity and intersectionality
• Free Access to our 'let’s get uncomfortable' events
• 10% discount on all other events, workshops and groups
• 1 hour annually with Pretish or Shammi to reflect on your practice
• Weekly Yoga facilitated by Deb - an experienced yoga teacher and therapist
• Pre covid – our kitchen was a hub for therapists to grab a coffee/ tea, a biscuit or some fruit, all fully provided for, and to have a quick chat with another therapist. We hope this will resume in the near future
• Free Wifi
• Discount on the Beauly Room and Aashna for groups, workshops and events
• Access to our Library and online data base of the growing resources on race, culture and intersectionality and copies of BACP Therapy Today and UKCP New Psychotherapist