Getting babies, parents and
families, back on track.

Neurocognitive and Behavioural Therapy
Our Approach

Our approach is psychodynamic. In other words, we place an emphasis on relationships. The psychodynamic approach is based on the way babies integrate and understand their experiences -- everything stems from their relationships with significant others. Such integration is driven by their internal tendencies and motivations. But integrating experiences and neurocognitive and behavioural therapy is also dependant upon the capacity of the parents to recognise and respond to their baby's needs.


We observe and think about:

• the quality of external relationships
• the quality of internal relationships
• integrating needs and satisfaction
• integrating the full range of experiences and feelings
• emotional attunement

We are informed by developmental psychology and experienced with neurocognitive and behavioural therapy. The family with an infant in distress is considered both as a whole unit and as a group of individuals. We look closely at infants' development -- physical and emotional -- and at their capacity to integrate experiences, to adapt to the world and to defend or soothe themselves and why. We observe infants in relation to each of their family members and explore the dynamics of those relationships. We also work with parents as individuals and as a couple and we observe siblings individually and in the various family dynamics as well to form our custom approach to neurocognitive and behavioural therapy.

We use psychoanalytic tools. Psychoanalysis gives us the ability to understand emotions and family dynamics from every perspective in a non-judgmental manner.

We work in a creative way. We are able to use a variety of therapies and a combination of treatment approaches to explore and meet the needs of each family member. Our method of therapy has been distilled from 35 years of actual clinical work, studying and observing what methods work best, when and how they work, using input from infant research, neuropsychology, psychoanalysis, recent theories of the mind and attachment theory and practice.

We intervene early. Because we can work effectively with babies just 2-months old, we always recommend to parents to get a consultation as soon as they have concerns. An early intervention could save parents, their child and their family years of unnecessary misery.



Three different types of consulting rooms at the Parent Infant Clinic: private one-on-one work (left), couples work (center) and family/siblings (right). All rooms at the Clinic are maintained in a “residential” style.