‘You Go from Zero to Toddler’: A Psychoanalytic Model of Group Work with Adopted Toddlers and their Parents

Qualified from IPCAPA British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) in 2014. She worked in a range of NHS child and adolescent mental health teams in London before moving into specialist services for children under five and their parents. Sarah was the co-lead for Growing Together, a joint venture between Islington CAMHS and Camden and Islington adult services and a senior therapist in the Early Years Service at the Anna Freud Centre. Sarah taught child development and psychoanalytic theory in the Postgraduate Studies department at the AFNCCF for several years, and continues to teach contemporary psychoanalytic theory to IPCAPA trainees. In 2023 Sarah founded Chorus, a social enterprise which provides therapeutic group interventions for young children and their parents who face or have faced adversity. Sarah also works as a child psychotherapist in the Whole Family Team Perinatal, a specialist team for under fives at the Tavistock, which is integrated with Camden local authority.

Qualified from IPCAPA in 2013. She worked in generic CAMHS and then moved into specialist services, including the Gender Service at the Tavistock, Islington Child Looked After Team, Forensic CAMHS at the Portman Clinic, and co-led the Brent Harrow Hillingdon Under 5s Team. She worked in the Early Years Team at the Anna Freud Centre from 2015 to 2022. Eva and Dr Sarah Peter established Chorus in 2023, a social enterprise that provides therapeutic interventions for families with children under 5 who face or have faced adversity, . Eva is passionate about infant observation and has been part of the BPF infant observation committee since qualification, as well as facilitating observation seminars in other organisations.