SafeHaven is a
Non-profit Organisation
It is to create a reliable, empathetic, secure and caring environment for individuals from different ethnicity and other groups.
Our Team
Counsellors are registered professionals
Our therapists are qualified & some are trainees with different modalities of psychotherapy, counselling, and psychology.
Ronke Adeyemi (MA, MBACP)
Founder & Director
Ronke is an integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapy, a Person-Centred Couple’s Counsellor. She holds, a Bachelor of Art (BA) in Psychosocial Studies and master’s degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from University of East London. A registered member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and part of the Black African Asian Therapist Network (BAATN). She is a Trustee of JAS Foundation in Africa (A Charity supporting education in rural areas).
Ronke is currently working in a private practice with individuals, couples, and families. Having wealth of work experience, and have worked at a bereavement counselling service, St Christopher’s Hospice. Also, worked with different individual with mental health issues at Awareness Centre, Sarah Agnes Foundation, among others.
She understands the limitation faced by some individual to assess counselling, especially the minority group, with this context, she founded SaveHaven Centre LTD March 2022. She seeks to break barriers to access counselling, providing opportunity of placement for counselling student/trainee from different background, especially from minority groups. Also, supporting them to become aware of their positions in the various relational contexts they occupy.
Rita Edah MA, MBACP (Accred)
Counsellor, Supervisor
As a counsellor/psychotherapist, my way of working is a trauma-informed person-centred approach integrated with pluralistic principles, psychodynamic concepts, and psychoeducation.
I work holistically and relationally with the whole person – a humanistic model that facilitates growth.
As a supervisor, I aim to facilitate your reflection on your practice, supporting you in your work with your clients as well as your own wellbeing and professional and personal growth and development.
I see my role as a supervisor as one of working collaboratively with you to facilitate your reflection on your work and your congruence in it, underpinned by my person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to life and practice.
Through the supervision process and the activities within it, I expect that my supervisees will increasingly bridge gaps (where relevant) in their understanding between theory and practice, review alternative perspectives, take fresh ideas back into their client work, wrestle with and probably untangle some ethical dilemmas, feel refreshed and reinvigorated in themselves, and grow both professionally and personally.
Bola Ogundeji
Psychosexual & Relationship Therapist (COSRT)
Bola is a fully qualified integrative psychosexual and relationship therapist providing psychotherapy, sex therapy and couples therapy to individuals and couples. She completed a foundation training in integrative counselling and psychotherapy and then further obtained a post-graduate qualification from London Diploma in Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy, accredited by Middlesex University, specialising in psychosexual and relationship therapy (PRT). Since graduating from the PRT training, she had expanded her training through a one-year Advanced Couples Therapy course with NAOS Institute, London. Bola is a registered member of The College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) and holds full Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance.
Over the past few years, Bola has worked for a busy central London practice and now sees clients privately online and in Kent. She has experience working with diverse clients with varied sexual and relationship preferences and experience.
Alongside being an individual and couple’s therapist, she has over 22 years of experience operating within the field of Human Resources and Organisational Development. She currently balances her leadership role with private practice and understands the effects of life, relationship, and work transitions on people. Bola aspires to help her clients find meaning through a more peaceful and hopeful experience.
Kevin Hamilton, BA (Hons), Cert Ed
Dip Training Management
Kevin is an accredited member of the BACP. He holds a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2007), a BA (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy, First Class, Roehampton University (2009), and a Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Supervision (2013). Kevin currently provides group supervision to qualified therapists and therapists in training for a charitable organisation in South West London.
Prior to embarking on a career in counselling, Kevin worked in education and training in both the private and public sectors. His former training positions include Managing Director roles with two I.T. training organisations, as a senior I.T. consultant/project manager in the City of London, and as a Training Officer for the Lloyds insurance market. Kevin is currently the Training Manager of a charitable organisation in North London, which provides a Certificate in Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (a BACP accredited training).
Kevin also runs a successful private practice providing one-to-one counselling, as well as individual supervision and group supervision.
Aishah Safdar
Counsellor
‘What you seek is seeking you’
I’m here to go on a journey of exploration with you. Being a seeker, I have needed others to help and guide me along my path, some that I have chosen and others not. As your counsellor, I can accompany you and we can explore, understand and possibly heal from the challenges and obstacles you’ve had to face. I draw on both my lived and counselling experiences in adapting my approach to every person I meet, working together towards finding that inner peace we are all searching for.
When we are in a shared space, feeling safe and trusting, there is no topic, no experience, no feeling that we “mustn’t” talk about. We can lift the veils and talk freely, be it, sexuality, gender, religion/spirituality, love, there’s no judgement on my part. There’s no fear in bringing diversity into our sessions and although my approach is predominantly Person Centred and Psychodynamic, I’ve recently been expanding and implementing different styles to find one that suits the unique individual I am with.
Over the years I have had extensive experience in counselling mothers through pregnancy, childbirth and beyond as well as women who have experienced domestic abuse. I have also provided counselling for NHS patients suffering from anxiety and depression and am currently volunteering for a bereavement service. This has all ranged from short term counselling of 6 weeks up to 18 weeks as well as open ended.
I have also been supervising Breastfeeding Counsellors for over 8 years and am currently training to become a Supervisor for Therapeutic Counsellors. While training until May 2024 I can offer free supervision which can be lead on to low cost supervision if required.
Become a Counsellor/Psychotherapist
Safehaven centre offers remote placements to trainee counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists, who are passionate about offering mental health support to people in the community, both on short and long-term basis.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, within the systemic and the therapeutic context. As students of colour and the emotional journey that forms an essential part of their counsellor’s training, we work closely with Black African Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) for additional training they may need to complete their education.
For more information, please email info@counsellingatsafehaven.com.