Founded in 1974, The Guild is a professional and training organisation for psychoanalytic psychotherapists. It is now a registered charity with over 250 members and trainees, who are bound by its Code of Ethics. The Guild is a member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the principal national body for the registration and regulation of the psychotherapy profession. The Guild of Psychotherapists has a pluralistic tradition which values many different analytic theories.

The Guild is an association with charitable status, governed by a constitution conferring ultimate responsibility for its running on a Council elected annually by the Membership. The Council consists of three honorary officers (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer), six Members' Representatives and two Student Representatives. The Annual General Meeting for

these elections is held in March.

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The Guild offers a private referral service, a reduced fee service and a community based reduced fee clinic at its headquarters. It also offers professional services which include clinical supervision, work and organisational consultancy, a training to UKCP registration and a programme of lectures, talks and meetings of interest to members of various professions and the general public.