I am a Psychotherapist and Group Analyst with a particular interest in the demands doctors face in their lives and careers.
My husband is a hospital consultant in a high acuity speciality, who returned to work after a life threatening illness, and many of my close family members and friends are doctors practicing in a variety of disciplines. During Covid, I helped to develop and deliver a support group service for NHS Practitioner Health, offering much needed sanctuary to clinicians on the frontline.
Group Psychotherapy emerged in crisis during the Second World War, pioneered by S.H. Foulkes at Northfield Military Hospital. His groups were designed to help traumatised soldiers make sense of what they had been through. Rather than facing their pain alone, they sat together to talk about their experiences.
Foulkes went on to found the Group Analytic Society (1952) and the Institute of Group Analysis (1971). Today, Group Analytic Psychotherapy is a well recognised, NHS approved treatment modality — awake to the realities of systemic pressure and inequality, and uniquely placed to locate personal distress within the shared social context.
This new group for doctors will run weekly in a hybrid format:
3 x online sessions and 1 x in-person session each month, held on Wednesday mornings 7:30-9:00am at Camden Therapy, London, NW1 0NE.
Up to eight places available, with 1:1 preparatory sessions to support members in joining.
Why this group?
Following my interest in the lived experience of healthcare practitioners — and in response to the increasing demands placed on clinicians — this group has been created to offer containment, support, and connection for doctors navigating anxiety, distress, and moral injury.
A Therapy Group is a safe, confidential space to talk about what you are going through, both at work and at home, and to hear the experiences of others. Together, the group forms a stabilising field where coping efforts are acknowledged, patterns become clearer, and difficult feelings can be expressed, metabolised and held.
When you relate to others in a group, beliefs and behaviours originally shaped in family and early social environments naturally surface. Reflecting on these patterns in a therapeutic context can soften entrenched defences, interrupt transgenerational cycles, and create space for more flexible and authentic ways of being.
Group therapy is not a quick fix, but it gets to the root of entrenched difficulties. It is an opportunity to reach deep levels of the personality, shift patterns that no longer serve you, and cultivate a more meaningful relationship with yourself and others.
Your Facilitator
Emma Reicher is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and Group Analyst specialising in somatic approaches to mental health. Her work brings together Group-Analytic Psychotherapy, BodyMind MaturationTM, Dreamwork, and Elemental Chi Kung to support deeper emotional plasticity, nervous system capacity, and a grounded relationship to self and others.
She has extensive experience across 1:1 work and facilitating groups, holding complex emotional material, and creating spaces where people can speak openly, decompress, and reconnect to their humanity. Emma is based in London and works with individuals and groups across the UK and internationally.
Details
- The Group is set to begin in May 2026 with individual preparatory sessions (monthly) in advance (£100/session)
- Group Membership is £300/month (inc VAT)
- Sessions are weekly and 90 minutes long, with breaks at Christmas, Easter and across the month of August
- There is a minimum commitment of one year to give the space and time required for a meaningful piece of therapy
- There is no contact with other members outside the sessions, maintaining confidentiality and a safe space to open up
- Conversation is free-floating, and undirected: we co-create the space together, and every session is different