Alan Archer

6 Cavendish Crescent North Nottingham Nottinghamshire NG7 1AY View map
01629825005 answer phone available / 07974 954 643 Click here to Email me

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I am a qualified doctor and Humanistic counsellor/ psychotherapist. I have more than fourteen years experience of working with people who have concerns to do with bereavement and loss, relationship issues, depression, general anxiety, sexual/physical abuse, poor self esteem, disordered eating, post-traumatic stress disorder and sexual orientation.

Many people want the safety of a confidential time and place where they can simply 'offload' something; some want to talk more deeply, unraveling or facing the reality of something painful or difficult from their past; or they may want help in overcoming their fear for the future.
Often people discover counselling to be a place of solace, a place where they find words for previously unexpressed thoughts or emotions, a place which provides a unique opportunity to challenge themselves with different choices and ways of being. Some people come just once, some come for very much longer - there is no expected or anticipated way of behaviour and there is no judgement. All are welcome and all enquiries treated confidentially.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications:
Medical -
MD, FRCP
present post:
Consultant physician with special interest in diabetes and endocrinology

Counselling and Psychotherapy -
2001 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, Person-Centred Approach
2003 Masters Degree (Distinction) in Humanistic Psychotherapy Person-Centred Approach

My initial training was in the Rogerian person-centred approach. My therapy work is therefore grounded in the belief that we all have the inner resources to solve our problems given appropriate support within a truly person-centred relationship.
My personal development over the past decade has led to an integrative approach to therapy so that, depending on the clients concerns and wishes, I am able to draw upon a wide range of philosophies including existentialism, object relations, self psychology, transactional analysis, gestalt therapy and principles of empowerment.

At present I offer therapy in both the NHS and private practice. In the NHS I have developed and lead a counselling service within a diabetes and endocrine unit where I am responsible for a team of counsellors training at Masters Degree level in Humanistic psychotherapy.

My private practice includes both short and long term therapy and student counsellors requiring personal development therapy.

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Career Counselling
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Generalised Anxiety
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Panic Disorder
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Relationship Issues
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Work Related Issues

Therapies Offered

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Existential Therapy

Fees

Therapy sessions are available on a Thursday afternoon and early evening.

Fee - first session free of charge, there after each session £45 per hour, reviewed on an annual basis and negotiable depending upon the client's means. Fee for students and people with no income is £35-00

Further Information

My interest in counselling/psychotherapy also includes being a faculty member of the Knuston Diabetes Counselling course, an invited lecturer at Warwick University and previously a member of the Diabetes UK Psychological Aspects of Diabetes working group that organises UK workshops for diabetes health care professionals.

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