Author biographies

Lucy Alexander trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at IPCAPA at the BPF (then known as the BAP). She currently works at Islington Community CAMHS and in private practice and also teaches on the child psychotherapy training at IPCAPA. Before becoming a psychotherapist she was a journalist.

Jonathan Bradley has held senior clinical positions as a child psychotherapist at the City and Hackney NHS Community Trust and at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Currently he is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock, and also has a private practice, which includes clinical work, supervision, involvement in group relations work, consultation about professional roles, and giving talks about work with adolescents, here and abroad.

Mary Brady (PhD) is an adult, adolescent and child psychoanalyst. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She works in private practice in San Francisco and also co-leads a consultation group on ‘The treatment of adolescents and young adults’. Her publications include The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms (2016) and Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Hot Topics to be published by Routledge later this year.

Emil Jackson is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and adult psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience of therapeutic work with adolescents. Emil is head of child and adolescent psychotherapy in the Adolescent and Young Adult Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He has been centrally involved in teaching and supervising on the professional doctorate in child and adolescent psychotherapy for many years, on which he facilitates the adolescent psychotherapy workshop. In addition Emil has taken a lead role in the development of mental health outreach projects in schools, with a special interest in work discussion groups for teachers, middle leaders and headteachers.

Fanny Elisa Lena is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who trai