Alan Archibald

I have availability online currently on a Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Are you seeking a therapist with extensive experience and specialized training? With 24 years of service in the NHS mental health sector and a decade focused on psycho-dynamic therapy, I bring a wealth of expertise to our sessions. As a fully qualified intercultural psycho-dynamic psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, you can trust in my professionalism and dedication to your well-being. My training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, coupled with four years as a specialist practitioner in psychoanalytical psychotherapy, underscores my commitment to addressing early trauma and attachment issues. Transitioning to the private sector three years ago, I have continued to provide compassionate and effective therapy tailored to your needs. Let's embark on this journey together toward healing and personal growth.

I have an office in central London near Oxford Street and also work online.  I hope to offer a warm and open approach to what you bring and hope that we can work together to find some answers to how you are feeling, why and how might that change.

I offer an initial consultation in the first instance.  This allows me to get to know a little more about you and what you are bringing to the therapy.  It will also allow you some space to explore what you are bringing and to see if this form of therapy is helpful to you.  I normally offer a 90 minute session in the first two instances and then we can think together about how to proceed.  I find this gives us the best start and the ability to explore a little about what might come up for you, how I might help support you, and make sure that your in safe hands.  I hope that you find the sessions helpful and insightful.  I like to think of the therapy as a journey we make together with many twists and turns that can lead to all sorts of interesting and helpful places, even at the time it might not feel that way.  The most important thing to remember is that your not alone on this journey and I will be there with you.

I provide high quality warm and containing supervision.  I have 24 years experience in acute mental health and psychodynamic psychotherapy.  I also have had 4 years experience of psychoanalytic experience at the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust.  

I work by inviting supervisees to bring there clinical cases and we explore together the unconcious communications between your patient and yourself.  We look in detail at the session and I help to uncover what might be going on by facilitating your existing skills and hoping to add to them.  

It can sometimes feel persecutory in supervision but I try to provide a space that you feel safe to explore your feelings in the counter transference and try to help you make sense of whats going on.  

I use a mixture of models but primarily klienian and freudian, I have been known to also add some Winnicott and Bion dependant on what comes up in the material.

I have a special interest on trauma cases and due to my acute experience I work well in risk management advise and recommendations. I can and do offer safeguarding advise and support.

Im keen to help my supervisees not only with there cases but also more practical elements of there practice.

I work online at the moment so why not contact me today and see what spaces I have?

We can use the space as you want in the first session.  I find it helpful for you to talk a little about your practice, background and some cases from your patient list.  We can then discuss a case or discuss a risk, practice management, a patient session, cpd or development issue.