Virtual Intimacy

UKCP-registered attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a trainee supervisor, and a trainee therapist. She trained at The Bowlby Centre, London where she is the editor of the journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly lectures, teaches, writes, and presents papers and book chapters on these topics and consults worldwide on attachment theory. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples, and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the books Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs (Badouk Epstein, Wingfield and Schwartz, 2011, Karnac); Terror Within and Without (Yellin, Badouk Epstein, 2013, Karnac); and was the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) Newsletter for ten years as well as being a regular contributor of articles and film reviews. In her spare time Orit enjoys the cinema, reading philosophy, and writing poetry.