We intervene early,
as the brain is wiring up.

The School of Infant Mental Health is the training department of the Parent Infant Clinic

Parent Infant Psychotherapy UKCP accredited
 
The School of Infant Mental Health (SIMH) is an organisation committed to the development of a particular approach to parent infant psychotherapy. It provides a four-year consultation and referral service training for professionals working with under 5’s and a 2-year conversion course for psychotherapists already trained. 

Parent infant psychoanalytic therapy has developed on the basis of the growing understanding of inner forces interacting from birth. These forces exert powerful influences in the way infants will be able to integrate their experiences. Parent infant psychoanalytic therapy focuses on the importance of the attachment relationship to human growth and development from birth throughout life, understanding the role and rule of anxiety and its modulation or moderation which will colour all behaviours as well as allow maturity.

 
Trainings Organisers 

 

SIMH Principal
Dr Stella Acquarone Ph.D (Psychology) Adult and Child Psychotherapist 
Founder of the Parent Infant Clinic and School of Infant Mental Health in London and author of Parent Infant Psychotherapy (Karnac 2004), Signs of Autism in Infants (Karnac 2007) and UPA LALA “Helping the Helpers”(Lumen 2009)

 SIMH Director
Margaret Briers, BA (Hons) M.Psych.Psych, Child Psychotherapist