Loss and Survival: Experiences of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Working Remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Assistant lecturer and AHRC-scholarship PhD candidate at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and trainee psychoanalytic psychotherapist and DClinPract candidate at the British Psychotherapy Foundation/University of Exeter. She is an honorary psychodynamic psychotherapist at EPUT (Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust). Her research interests include Melanie Klein and her forefathers' use of countertransference, examining archival and clinical practice notes, clinical practice and documentation, use of the couch and archival research of psychoanalysts. She has held various strategic positions relating to practice, including two terms on UK Council for Psychotherapy's Ethics Committee and as EPUT Public Elected Governor. She was Director of Northeast Essex Mind and founding strategic member of Healthwatch Essex and IAPT Mental Health Clinical Advisory Group (NHS Midlands and East of England). She is a chartered accountant (member of ICAEW) and previously held managerial audit positions at HSBC and KPMG.

Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and professor at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Trained first at the Tavistock in child and adolescent psychotherapy and then at the Lincoln as an adult psychotherapist, she has worked in CAMHS, hospital and school settings as well as privately. She runs the MA Psychodynamic Counselling training at Essex, having formerly established the MSc Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents at Birkbeck. She has taught on many academic and clinical training courses and published widely on clinical and training issues, including her book Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Young People (2010). She is managing editor of Psychodynamic Practice. She convenes the research group of the ACP and is an active member of the ACP Scientific Development Committee and the BPF Scientific and Applied Activities Committee.

Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and currently honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. He is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in central London. He is a trustee of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and chair of the BPF Scientific and Applied Activities Committee, and current book reviews editor for the British Journal of Psychotherapy. He has been an active researcher for many years, with interests in sexuality, marginalized identities and mental health, and published a number of papers in these areas. He was awarded the BPC Bernard Ratigan Award for Diversity in Psychoanalysis in 2021. He is co-author (with Deborah Abrahams) of A Clinical Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, published by Routledge in 2021.