Author biographies

Sophie Boswell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with children and adults. She qualified as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Centre in 2003, subsequently working and teaching in various settings including CAMHS community settings, children’s centres, schools and nurseries. For several years she worked in a CAMHS team within Westminster’s Looked After Children department. She was also a member of Westminster’s Adoption and Permanency Panel, and a member of the NICE panel, producing guidelines on the wellbeing of Looked-after Children and Young People (2010). Sophie is the author of Understanding Your Baby (2003), part of the Tavistock’s Understanding Your Child series. She currently works in private practice in London.

Eva Crasnow is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who trained at IPCAPA at the British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF). She completed her doctorate on the topic of contact supervision with Looked After Children. In addition to teaching roles, Eva currently works at the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

Simon Cregeen is Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in Manchester and Salford CAMHS, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and a clinical tutor on the Clinical Doctorate training at the Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Leeds, UK. His main areas of clinical work are with Looked After children and their networks, adoptive families, and parental couples. He has had a number of papers published in this journal and elsewhere. Simon is a member of the STPP (IMPACT) Steering Group and a co-author of Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual (2016, Karnac).

Lynne Cudmore originally trained as a social worker and worked in London before training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and working for 26 years at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relations