Training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and providing psychotherapy for 50 years
AGIP is a charity, a membership organisation, and a training provider for psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Welcome to AGIP
AGIP was founded in 1974 and is a membership organisation providing a pluralistic and contemporary training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The clinical training equips members to work in private practice and in the public and voluntary sectors.
Our training courses include an introductory foundation year, a full clinical psychotherapy training, and an infant observation course.
Individuals seeking personal therapy can contact our Professional Members directly from our directory of psychotherapists. We are also a registered charity offering low fee and concessionary psychotherapy for adults on low incomes.
AGIP has members working in London, the rest of the UK, and in Europe. Our professional qualifications are accredited by the UKCP. Wherever you are on your career path, our training and memberships will help you progress your career and fulfil your potential in psychotherapy.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2025: Community
At AGIP, we’re reflecting on the role of community, as this year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week, and as a cornerstone of our work since AGIP’s founding in the 1970s.
AGIP was born out of a desire to make psychoanalytic psychotherapy more accessible, inclusive, and attuned to the realities of social context. Our roots lie in the belief that healing does not happen in isolation.
Meaningful change often emerges through relationships, within the consulting room and far beyond it. In a time of rising loneliness and disconnection, the therapeutic space can offer a vital bridge back to community, connection, and self-understanding.
This week, we reaffirm our dedication to fostering thoughtful, emotionally alive communities within our sector, our training, our membership, and with those we serve.
Train With Us
AGIP launched its new training in October 2015.
Our training courses are competitively priced and a bursary scheme is available to students, including a dedicated bursary for students from Black and minority ethnic groups. The training courses are designed to thoroughly prepare individuals for the reality of being a practising therapist in private practice and the statutory and voluntary sectors.
The training is rigorous, challenging, and rewarding. It can also be an emotionally difficult process, and we pride ourselves upon the extensive support we offer our trainees.
Psychotherapy
Offering Psychotherapy Services for over 50 years
With a rich history, AGIP has been delivering psychoanalytic psychotherapy for over five decades.
To connect with one of our psychotherapists directly, please click here to view a list of our members’ profiles
Low Fee Psychotherapy
Offering Psychotherapy Services for over five decades
The Fairbridge Clinic offers psychoanalytic psychotherapy to individuals in receipt of certain state financial support.
Applications for psychotherapy are accepted from March to May and September to November and are subject to eligibility, assessment and therapist availability.
Room Hire
Meeting & Consulting Rooms
AGIP offers a variety of consulting and meeting rooms to rent in our spacious North London centre, conveniently situated and close to various transport links (Archway on the Northern Line, Upper Holloway rail station and buses).
Bursary Scheme
Financial support for trainees enrolled on our foundation and clinical courses
AGIP offers a limited number of bursaries in recognition of the deep-rooted structural inequalities that shape access to psychotherapy training in the UK.
These are for candidates from minoritised ethnic communities, and candidates in need of financial support due to their personal economic circumstances (e.g. being a single parent, low-income household, carer or similar). The scheme is part of our commitment to inclusion and to offering opportunities for training to all members of the community.
About Us
AGIP provides an inclusive, dynamic, supportive and pluralistic psychoanalytic community for members and trainees, and increases access to psychotherapy for low- income groups.
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