Alan Archibald

I am working online and have a variety of times and days avaiable.  These are on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon and evening.  Just ask and I can see what I can do. 

I am a psychodynamic psychotherapist with 28 years in mental health, including 24 years in the NHS and 8 years as a psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. I trained there in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Diploma, 2014) and Intercultural Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D59I, 2017), before joining the Tavistock as a Nurse Specialist in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. I have been in private practice since 2020, working exclusively online with adult clients across the UK.

My approach is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. We work together to understand not just what you are struggling with, but why — exploring how early experiences, relationships, and emotional patterns shape how you feel and function today. This is unhurried, in-depth work focused on lasting change rather than symptom management.

I specialise in trauma, complex grief, infant loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, and pregnancy after loss — including the challenges of IVF. I also have extensive experience in intercultural psychotherapy, supporting clients from diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds navigating identity, belonging, and emotional pain.

I offer both open-ended therapy and a structured 16-session format, and work with the full range of presentations including depression, anxiety, relational difficulties, attachment issues, and complex mental health histories. My NHS background means I am experienced in risk assessment and working safely with complexity.

I also provide clinical supervision to qualified and trainee therapists globally, drawing on my Tavistock training and NHS experience to offer rigorous, warm, and clinically grounded support.

I offer an initial consultation across two 90-minute sessions. This gives us unhurried space to think together about what has brought you to therapy, what you are hoping for, and whether this approach feels right for you. We will also discuss any risks or concerns, and how to keep you safe throughout our work together. There is no obligation to continue — it is simply an opportunity to meet, think, and decide together.

Sessions are £100 for therapy and £150 for the 90-minute consultation. Concessions are available — please ask.

I am working online and have a variety of times and days avaiable.  These are on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon and evening.  Just ask and I can see what I can do. 

I am a psychodynamic psychotherapist with 28 years in mental health, including 24 years in the NHS and 8 years as a psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. I trained there in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Diploma, 2014) and Intercultural Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D59I, 2017), before joining the Tavistock as a Nurse Specialist in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 

I have been in private practice since 2020, working exclusively online with adult clients across the UK.My approach is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. We work together to understand not just what you are struggling with, but why — exploring how early experiences, relationships, and emotional patterns shape how you feel and function today. This is unhurried, in-depth work focused on lasting change rather than symptom management.

I specialise in trauma, complex grief, infant loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, and pregnancy after loss — including the challenges of IVF. I also have extensive experience in intercultural psychotherapy, supporting clients from diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds navigating identity, belonging, and emotional pain.

I offer both open-ended therapy and a structured 16-session format, and work with the full range of presentations including depression, anxiety, relational difficulties, attachment issues, and complex mental health histories. My NHS background means I am experienced in risk assessment and working safely with complexity.

I also provide clinical supervision to qualified and trainee therapists globally, drawing on my Tavistock training and NHS experience to offer rigorous, warm, and clinically grounded support.

I offer an initial consultation across two 90-minute sessions. This gives us unhurried space to think together about what has brought you to therapy, what you are hoping for, and whether this approach feels right for you. We will also discuss any risks or concerns, and how to keep you safe throughout our work together. There is no obligation to continue — it is simply an opportunity to meet, think, and decide together.

Sessions are £100 for therapy and £150 for the 90-minute consultation. Concessions are available — please ask.

I work online via Zoom with UK clients. I have availability across Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday — afternoons and evenings. Please get in touch to discuss what works for you.

I provide high quality warm and containing online individual and group supervision.  I have 25 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 in 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.

I'm keen to help my supervisees online not only with there cases but also more practical elements of there practice.

I work soley 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.  

I work online via Zoom with UK clients. I have availability across Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday — afternoons and evenings. Please get in touch to discuss what works for you.

I provide high quality warm and containing online individual and group supervision.  I have 25 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 in 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.

I'm keen to help my supervisees online not only with there cases but also more practical elements of there practice.

I work soley 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.