ARCH
Addiction Recovery Consultancy and Healthcare
Our aim is simple:
To help services deliver consistent, evidence-based psychosocial support that improves engagement, retention, and recovery outcomes.
We support training providers and drug and alcohol services to deliver effective, evidence-based psychosocial interventions through training and clinical consultancy.
About ARCH
What we do
Who we work with
Who we work with
We help services strengthen the quality and consistency of psychosocial care by supporting recovery workers to deliver structured, evidence-based interventions within routine sessions.
Our work focuses on:
- Structured Support implementation
- recovery worker skills development
- formulation-driven intervention planning
- supervision frameworks
- service-level workforce capability development
Who we work with
Who we work with
Who we work with
ARCH supports:
- Training providers
- NHS drug and alcohol services
- local authority commissioned providers
- charities and third-sector organisations
- recovery services
- multidisciplinary addiction teams
Our approach
Who we work with
Our approach
Our training and consultancy are grounded in:
- UK Clinical Guidelines for Alcohol Treatment (Psychosocial Interventions)
- NHS England Capability Framework for the Drug and Alcohol Workforce
- evidence from cognitive behavioural therapy for addictions
- relapse prevention models
- recovery capital research
- implementation science
This ensures traini
Our training and consultancy are grounded in:
- UK Clinical Guidelines for Alcohol Treatment (Psychosocial Interventions)
- NHS England Capability Framework for the Drug and Alcohol Workforce
- evidence from cognitive behavioural therapy for addictions
- relapse prevention models
- recovery capital research
- implementation science
This ensures training is not only clinically credible, but deliverable within real-world services.
Clinical leadership
Why we focus on recovery workers
Why we focus on recovery workers
ARCH is led by a team of HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologists with extensive experience working in NHS addiction services and university-affiliated research settings.
Our work combines:
- clinical expertise
- addiction research
- workforce development
- implementation science
This allows us to bridge the gap between research, policy, and everyday clinical practice.
Why we focus on recovery workers
Why we focus on recovery workers
Why we focus on recovery workers
Recovery workers are the heart of services and central to treatment delivery across UK drug and alcohol services.
National guidance consistently highlights the importance of structured psychosocial support delivered by skilled frontline staff.
ARCH supports recovery workers to:
- develop formulation-driven practice
- deliver structured intervent
Recovery workers are the heart of services and central to treatment delivery across UK drug and alcohol services.
National guidance consistently highlights the importance of structured psychosocial support delivered by skilled frontline staff.
ARCH supports recovery workers to:
- develop formulation-driven practice
- deliver structured interventions
- strengthen recovery networks
- increase client engagement
- support relapse prevention planning
Our values
Why we focus on recovery workers
Our values
We believe effective addiction treatment should be:
evidence-based
collaborative
formulation-driven
recovery-focused
practical to deliver in routine services