Fanny Lena

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Fanny Lena is a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock Centre. She has worked clinically with children, young people and families, in Italy and in the UK, both in the NHS and in private practice. She qualified as a psychologist in Italy and developed a specialist interest in work with under 5s and attachment research. She worked in CAMHS for several years, where she supported therapeutically children and young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties, while also consolidating her interest in parent-infant psychotherapy and, more generally, in parent work.

Fanny has taught infant observation, work discussion, psychoanalytic theory and child development research at the Tavistock Centre and has been offering supervision to professionals working in a variety of settings. She currently lives in Scotland where she works in independent practice and teaches on infant observation and work discussion on the observational course at Human Development Scotland, in Glasgow.