Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy

AGIP offers a UKCP recognised training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy together with a psychotherapy clinic which also offers low fee therapy for appropriate patients.
Use the menu to find further details of the psychotherapy training, the psychotherapy clinic including low fee therapy and other information about AGIP.

If you are considering applying for psychotherapy training in 2009, AGIP will be holding two Open Days for prospective applicants. These will be on 8 February 2009 and 25 April 2009. To book a place, please contact the AGIP office.

UKCP Review of AGIP

Every five years UKCP review each member organisation to ensure that it continues to meet the exacting standards of its training requirements. AGIP was reviewed during 2006/7 and the following are extracts from the UKCP report:

" . . an impression of an organisation that was serious about its procedures and responsibilities to members and trainees"

" . . the smoothness and efficiency of the review itself spoke of a confidence and ethic which was well established and very much alive to its priciple function; the provision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy to a wide range of people. The training takes place in the house and so it is in this context that, right from the beginning, trainees encounter this working ethic."

"[the house] was a workplace for a range of members and this provided valuable contact for trainees. The conversations in between and around work with patients, seminars and tutorials make for a rich learning environment. The house also acts as a safe holding space, particularly helpful to anyone who undertakes a lengthy psychoanalytic training with all the manifold stresses that may put on the individual trainee. So a clear message for a trainee here is that this is a place that they could continue to be involved with and enjoy a professional life after their training is finished"

"The regular analytic group also makes for a certain intensity which helps air and contain some of the inevitable anxieties that the trainee will experience throughout."

"AGIP offers an excellent training programme which clearly meets and even exceeds UKCP standards. Its seminar programme provides a sound psychoanalytic education. . . . AGIP provides a very attractive base for prospective trainees and allows for an immersion in psychoanalytic thinking and practice which is very conducive to the trainees' development."