Walter Gibson - Clinical Training Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalytic Therapy

BUPA

Male

Walter Gibson is a psychoanalyst, lecturer, supervisor and consultant psychotherapist working privately and in the NHS. He worked as a social care professional in hospitals and the community particularly with patients living with HIV/Aids before training initially in psychotherapy. Having worked at the London Lighthouse he established a cancer psychotherapy service in a London Hospital before joining a Mental Health NHS psychotherapy department, establishing and supervising a psychodynamic brief intervention primary care NHS service and providing group and individual treatment to inpatients and community outpatients with severe mental health difficulties. He went on to complete further psychotherapy training before applying to train and going on to qualify as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society, an International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) society which is widely and international recognised as training psychoanalysts to the highest standard, offering the most intensive form of five times weekly psychoanalysis. During this training, he became an NHS consultant psychotherapist for a Mental Health NHS Trust, providing clinical and policy leadership as well as supervising, teaching and providing complex assessment, consultation and treatment within a multi-disciplinary setting. He has twenty years of experience working as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in a wide range of NHS and private clinical settings and with people of a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds and severity of difficulties. This has included assessing, making recommendations for other treatment or providing psychoanalytic treatment according to need. He is able to provide interventions from single consultations to full psychoanalysis where the most intensive form of treatment is wished for to allow the greatest possibility for the complexity and potential richness of human experience to be addressed. He currently works as a psychoanalyst in private practise, offering consultations and psychoanalysis. Walter Gibson is also Head of Psychotherapy and Clinical Lead for Personality Disorder and Specialist Psychotherapy Services for an NHS Mental Health Trust which includes a major City. He is a Visiting Lecturer for an NHS psychoanalytic psychotherapy training and has lectured on the British Psychoanalytical Society's Introductory Lectures (North). He lecturers and supervises psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists and is a registered Training Analyst for the Child & Adolescent NHS Psychotherapy Training.

• British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Registered Psychoanalyst since October 2007
• Clinical Training Psychoanalysis - Institute of Psychoanalysis London (UK) 2007
• Advanced Training Psychoanalysis - Institute of Psychoanalysis London (UK) 2007
• UKCP Accredited Training Psychotherapy - Minster Centre (MC) London (UK) 1996

I am committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. I abide by the Code of Ethics of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).

Finding the right approach and then therapist or psychoanalyst can be difficult. An important consideration is the evidence base that a treatment may help you. There is now a growing evidence base for longer term psychoanalytic work, indicating long term benefits for complex difficulties. A reference for a meta-study is included below.

Effectiveness of Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
A Meta-analysis

Falk Leichsenring, DSc; Sven Rabung, PhD
JAMA. 2008;300(13):1551-1565

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