About The Guild

Founded in 1974, The Guild is a professional and training organisation for psychoanalytic psychotherapists. It is now a registered charity with over 250 members and trainees, who are bound by its Code of Ethics. The Guild is a member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the principal national body for the registration and regulation of the psychotherapy profession. The Guild of Psychotherapists has a pluralistic tradition which values many different analytic theories.

The Guild is an association with charitable status, governed by a constitution conferring ultimate responsibility for its running on a Council elected annually by the Membership. The Council consists of three honorary officers (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer), six Members' Representatives and two Student Representatives. The Annual General Meeting for these elections is held in March.

More about the history of The Guild

The Guild offers a private referral service, a reduced fee service and a community based reduced fee clinic at its headquarters. It also offers professional services which include clinical supervision, work and organisational consultancy, a training to UKCP registration and a programme of lectures, talks and meetings of interest to members of various professions and the general public.

Referral services

The Guild offers a psychotherapy referral service for private psychoanalytic psychotherapy, covering all of London and many parts of England. A low fee provision is sometimes available for people who cannot afford the usual professional fee.

Reduced fee clinic

The Guild runs a community based reduced fee psychotherapy Clinic at 47 Nelson Square, Blackfriars Road, London SE1. The clinic provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults on a low income, living in the boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth or Lewisham. More about the clinic>>

Professional services

Members of The Guild offer a range of professional services, including clinical supervision, organisational consultancy, assessment and training. For more information please email us or telephone the number above.

Training

A professional analytic training is offered. See Training page.

Facilities hire

The Guild has a range of conference, meeting and consulting rooms which can be available for rent. Please contact admin@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk

Equal opportunities

The Guild of Psychotherapists, recognising the adverse effects of exclusion and discrimination, upholds a policy of equal opportunities. It values diversity and undertakes to install and implement systems and practices to ensure equality of opportunity and inclusivity in all areas of Guild life, namely: teaching and training; the low-fee clinic; membership; employment; public profile. This may include challenging the nature of psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalytic institutions where necessary.

Complaints

The Guild operates a complaints procedure, regulated by its Ethics Panel. See The Guild Code of Ethics.