A Partnership of Two Therapeutic Models: The Development of Mentalization Based Treatment—Couple Therapy (MBT-CT) Within A Psychoanalytic Framework

Lecturer and visiting clinician at Tavistock Relationships, where she was previously on the faculty staff. She is a Graduate Member of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology and a senior member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She has lectured in the UK and abroad and has a private practice in London. She is on the Editorial Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Her writings include Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies (Karnac, 2007), co-edited with Molly Ludlam and Developing a Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for Therapeutic Intervention With Couples (MBT-CT) with Leezah Hertzmann in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 4(2): 116-135 (2014).

Couple and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Previously, at Tavistock Relationships she developed services and interventions for high conflict couples and parents and was the recipient of the British Psychoanalytic Council Award for Innovation, 2015. Leezah is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council special advisory group on sexual diversity, an area in which she lectures, supervises, and has published. Recent publications include several peer reviewed outcome studies as well as papers on sexuality and couple conflict co-authored with Viveka Nyberg. She has a part-time private practice.