Developing a Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for Therapeutic Intervention with Couples (MBT-CT)

A senior psychoanalytic couple therapist and clinical lecturer at Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR). She is a senior member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. Previously, she worked as a principal psychotherapist in the NHS, where she was in charge of organising a couple therapy service. At TCCR, she has been the lead in organising a clinical workshop for colleagues with the aim of developing a mentalization-based model for couple intervention and convenes the workshop together with Leezah Hertzmann. She is contributing as a research therapist to the randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of the mentalization-based model. She co-edited with Molly Ludlam Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies (2007). Her paper Time-Limited Couple Psychotherapy: Treatment of Choice, or an Imposition? was published in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 1(1), 2011.

Senior psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR), and an individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. Head of TCCR's Parenting Together Service, she has developed with colleagues a mentalization-based treatment for parents in conflict. She is one of the principal investigators of a randomised controlled trial of this model of intervention currently underway in collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre. With Viveka Nyberg, Leezah co-convenes a clinical workshop for TCCR colleagues to develop a mentalization treatment model for couples less suited to more traditional psychoanalytic approaches. She also has a particular interest in psychoanalytic theory and technique in clinical work with lesbian and gay couples; her recently published paper in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy focused on internalised homophobia. She is a member of the recently formed British Psychoanalytic Council task group on homosexuality.