Child psychotherapists undertake clinical work with infants, children, adolescents and their parents and carers, and provide consultation to a wide group of other professionals involved in the health, care and education of children and young people. This group includes health visitors, teachers, field and residential social workers, nursery workers, school nurses and community workers.
The training, whose national standards are set by the Association of Child Psychotherapists, involves 6 to 7 years of postgraduate study, and the profession is open to graduates with substantial prior professional experience with children, adolescents and their families. The training emphasises detailed observation as the starting point for understanding the development of relationships and utilises psychoanalytic theories of personality development and a knowledge of child development and theories of family dynamics.
Child psychotherapists are committed to working as members of multi-disciplinary teams. Their particular contribution is a focus on understanding the child's experience, assessing whether children and young people could make use of psychotherapy and in providing individual and group psychotherapy both long and short-term.
The Tavistock Clinic training in child psychotherapy is the largest in the UK and has many links with training developments both nationally and internationally. A partnership with a new training to be based in the North of England is underway.
Child psychotherapists in the Clinic are involved in teaching on many professional development courses within the Trust, for students who work directly themselves with children, young people, parents and families in education, social services, the NHS and the voluntary sector.
Head of Discipline
Margaret Rustin
BA(Hons), MACP, TQAP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Honorary Affiliate, Institute of Psychoanalysis
Discipline Staff
Lynne Amidon
BA, MA, MPsychPsych, PhD, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, the Monroe Young Family Centre
Katie Argent
BA(Hons), MA, MPsychPsych, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Neil Austin
BA(Hons), MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, ARBS, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate and Kingston Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Myra Berg
BSc(Hons), MA, MSc(EdPsych), MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Camden Primary Care Trust
Rebecca Bergese
BA, MA, MPsychPsych, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Victoria Blincow
BSc, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Camden Primary Care Trust
Catrin Bradley
BSc, PGCE, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Trust Representation to NCLSHA Steering Group
Jonathan Bradley
MA, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Head of Child Psychotherapy, Adolescent Directorate, Editor, Understanding Your Child Book Series
Alison Cantle
BA(Hons), DipATh, MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Monroe Young Family Centre
Lynne Cudmore
BSc(Hons), MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Marlborough Family Service and Westminster Social Services CAMHS
Katy Dearnley
BA(Hons), MACP, CQSW, MSW, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and
St. George’s Hospital
Judith Edwards
BA(Hons), MPsychPsych, MACP, MTSP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Louise Emanuel
BA(DipEd), MPsychPsych, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Maggie Fagan
BA(Hons), MACP, DipPsych, UKCP, MPsychPsych, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and
Family Directorate
Anna Fitzgerald
BA(Hons), PGCE,MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Monroe Young Family Centre and Camden Primary Care Trust
Val Forster
MA, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Mulberry Bush Day Unit and Havant Child and Family Therapy, Hampshire Primary Care Trust
Jackie Hall
BA(Hons), MPsychPsych, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Kate Henderson
BA, MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate and Camden Primary Care Trust
Anne Hurley
BA, MSc(Hons), CQSW, MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Enfield Child and Adolescent Service
Gill Ingall
BSocSc, PGCE, MPsychPsych, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Head of Child Psychotherapy in the Child and Family Directorate
Emil Jackson
BSc(Hons), MPsychPsych, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate, Treasurer, Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists
Trudy Klauber
BA(Hons), MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Dean of Postgraduate Studies, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Meira Likierman
BA, PhD, PGCE, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Ryan Lowe
MA, MPsychPsych, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Monroe Young Family Centre
Alessandra Marsoni
BA(Hons), MPhil, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate
Janice McLean
CQSW, MPsychPsych, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Monroe Young Family Centre
Lisa Miller
MA, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Editor, Infant Observation Journal
Lynda Miller
BEd, EdTher, MPsychPsych, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate and Enfield Child and Adolescent Service, Joint Head, Learning and Complex Disabilities Service
Sheila Miller
BA(Hons), MACP, TQAP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Graham Music
BA(Hons), MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Camden Primary Care Trust
Antje Netzer-Stein
CPsychol, MACP, AMBPAS, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate
Michele Pundick
BA(Hons), MACP, MSc, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Tavistock Mulberry Bush Day Unit and Child and Family Directorate
Professor Maria Rhode
BA(Hons), MA, MSc, PhD, MACP, TQAP, MTSP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Professor of Child Psychotherapy, Tavistock Clinic and University of East London
Margaret Rustin
BA(Hons), MACP, TQAP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Trust Head of Child Psychotherapy, Honorary Affiliate, Institute of Psychoanalysis
Judy Shuttleworth
BA(Econ) Hons, MSc, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Whittington Hospital
Hilary Stonebridge
BSc(Hons), MSc, CQSW, MPsychPsych, ACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate
Beverley Tydeman
BA, MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate and Marlborough Family Centre
Cathy Urwin
BSc, MA, PhD, MACP, TQAP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Research Fellow, Child and Family Directorate, Book Reviews Editor, JIO
Margot Waddell
PhD(Cantab), MACP, MBPAS, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adolescent Directorate, Editor, Tavistock Clinic-Karnac Book Series
Jenifer Wakelyn
PGCE, MA, MPsychPsych, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic-Haringey Looked After Children and Adolescents Service
Biddy Youell
BEd(Hons), MA, MPsychPsych, MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Child and Family Directorate, Head of Training at the Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Honorary Staff
Dilys Daws
MA, MACP, MBAP
Juliet Hopkins
MA, MACP, MBAP
Mary Sue Moore
BA, MS, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Child and Family Services, Boulder County Mental Health Centre and Psychology Department, University of Colorado, USA
Eileen Orford
BSc, MACP, MBAP, Chair, Child Psychotherapy Trust
Gianna Williams
DrPhil, MACP, MTSP, President, Centro Studi Martha Harris, Florence, Milan and Rome
Isca Wittenberg
BCom (Hons), MACP
