Tanya has extensive training in a range of approaches to therapeutic work, including systemic, cognitive-constructivist and relational psychoanalytic, and has more than 15 years of experience in providing psychological assessment and treatment to adults, families, children and young people in different care settings, including the hospital environment and private practice. During her PhD she developed a mindfulness-based intervention for maltreated children and adolescents in residential care, and completed a training to become a certified mindfulness teacher. She taught undergraduates and postgraduate psychology students at the Catholic University of Milan and then worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Northampton, where she led an MSc in Counselling Children and Young People. Tanya also worked as a senior research tutor on the MSc Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice at the Anna Freud Centre, and as a research and clinical tutor for DCPsych and DPsych students at Metanoia Institute and City, University of London.
As well as working privately as a clinician, Tanya is currently a course tutor on the DClinPsych at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow within the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research Unit (ChAPTRe) at the Anna Freud Centre/UCL. Her main interests include phenomenological psychopathology, relational mindfulness, brain-to-brain synchrony, developmental trauma, and therapeutic presence.
