WPF Therapy

What WPF Therapy does

WPF Therapy was a UK-registered charity (Charity No. 273434) and private limited company (Company No. 1214251) founded in 1969 in London to make psychotherapy accessible at a time when the discipline was exclusionary and expensive in Britain. The organisation operated two integrated activities: a clinical clinic delivering Open Ended Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Brief Therapy, Long Term Groupwork, and Reflective and Experiential Groups to members of the public, and a professional training school offering accredited programmes in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Group Analytic Therapy.

Revenue was generated through a combination of client fees for therapy sessions, tuition from training programmes, and project- and grant-funded innovative clinical services. The charity held organisational membership in both the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), anchoring its institutional credibility within the UK therapeutic community.

WPF Therapy ceased all operations on 31 July 2023 following an extended period of financial pressure, and on 4 August 2023 Matthew Haw and Matthew Wild of RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP were appointed as Joint Liquidators. The entity is now in voluntary liquidation and is no longer trading.

Name

WPF Therapy

Legal name

WPF Therapy Ltd.

Website

https://wpf.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Closed

Short description

WPF Therapy was a London-based UK charity founded in 1969 that delivered accessible psychodynamic psychotherapy services and professional training programmes in counselling and group analytic therapy until ceasing operations in July 2023.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Psychotherapy and Mental Health Services

NAICS

Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Mental Health & Crisis Support Services (BPAGACAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) & Public Behavioral Health Providers (HLAFACAI)

Keywords

• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Therapy training programmes
• Group analytic therapy
• Mental health counselling
• Affordable therapy services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

WPF Therapy was a UK registered charity that provided accessible and affordable psychodynamic psychotherapy and group analytic therapy services directly to individuals through its London clinic, alongside professional training programmes in psychodynamic counselling, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and group analytic therapy. Its clinical offerings included Open Ended Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Brief Therapy, Long Term Groupwork, and Reflective and Experiential Groups, complemented by training delivered to aspiring and practising therapists.

Product overview

WPF Therapy operated as a single unified charity offering both clinical therapy services and professional training programmes. The organisation provided accessible therapeutic services including Open Ended Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Brief Therapy, Long Term Groupwork, and Reflective and Experiential Groups. Complementing its clinical offerings, WPF delivered professional training in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Group Analytic Therapy. The therapy services and training programmes were designed to be inclusive and affordable, working together to advance psychodynamic and group analytic therapy practice in the UK.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Open Ended Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Brief Therapy
• Long Term Groupwork
• Reflective and Experiential Groups
• Training in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
• Training in Group Analytic Therapy

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Direct peers

• Metanoia Institute: London-based psychotherapy training institute offering programmes in psychodynamic and humanistic modalities with an associated clinical service. Highly comparable to WPF on training-led mission and London footprint.
• Anna Freud Centre: UK charity delivering mental-health training, clinical services, and research with a particular focus on children and young people. Comparable to WPF as a UK mental-health charity combining clinical service with a training mission.
• Society of Analytical Psychology: UK membership and training body for Jungian analytical psychotherapy delivering clinical training and a low-cost psychotherapy service. Closely comparable niche in analytic/modality-specific psychotherapy training and clinical service.
• Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: NHS foundation trust providing outpatient psychotherapy and well-established professional training in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic modalities. Closely comparable to WPF in combining clinical services with postgraduate psychotherapy training in the UK.
• British Psychotherapy Foundation: UK charity offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy training alongside a clinical psychotherapy service. Operates a near-identical clinic-plus-training model to WPF and serves a similar therapist and trainee audience.

Emerging players

• Place2Be: UK children's mental-health charity providing counselling in schools plus training for education staff. Comparable as a UK mental-health charity combining direct service with a training mission, though focused on school-based delivery and children rather than adult psychotherapy.

Broad incumbents

• NHS Talking Therapies: NHS-commissioned service (formerly IAPT) delivering evidence-based psychological therapies at scale in the UK. Comparable as a UK provider of psychotherapy services but publicly funded, digitally enabled, and dominated by CBT rather than psychodynamic modalities.
• Mind (UK mental health charity): Large UK mental-health charity providing information, advocacy, and services across a much broader scope than WPF. Comparable as a UK mental-health charity but operates at significantly greater scale and across many more conditions.

Others

• Centre for Mental Health: UK mental-health research and policy charity working on workforce, access, and service-design issues in talking therapies. Comparable as a UK mental-health charity ecosystem participant but operates in research/policy rather than clinical service delivery.
• Counselling Directory: UK online directory connecting clients with counsellors and psychotherapists. Comparable as a UK psychotherapy access platform but operates as a referral/marketing channel rather than a clinical or training provider.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WPF_Therapy
• Facebookfacebook.com/WPFTherapy

Compliance2 records

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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