Dr Tanya Lecchi
Dr Tanya Lecchi
BA Hons (Psychol) – MSc (ClinPsych) – PhD (Psychol) – DPsych
I am a BPS Chartered Psychologist, Registered Counselling and Clinical Psychologist (HCPC), Relational Psychotherapist, Mindfulness Teacher, and Senior Research Fellow.
I have 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.
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.
My Expertise
During my PhD I developed a mindfulness-based intervention for maltreated children and adolescents in residential care, and completed a training to become a certified mindfulness teacher. I 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 I led an MSc in Counselling Children and Young People.
I 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 at City, University of London.
Her main interests include phenomenological psychopathology, relational mindfulness, brain-to-brain synchrony, developmental trauma, and therapeutic presenc.
My Training
- BA (Hons) in Clinical Psychology
- MSc in Clinical Psychology
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
- PhD in Psychology
- Professional Training in Mindfulness-based Interventions
- Foundation Course in Psychoanalysis
- Foundation Course in Group Analysis
- PGCertHE (Teaching and Learning in Counselling and Psychotherapy)
- PG Certificate in Relational Theory in Clinical Practice (The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center, New York).
Recent Publications
- Lecchi, T. (2024). Intersoggettività e presenza nell’incontro terapeutico: una prospettiva costruttivista. In F. Giommi (Ed.), Coltivare Presenza: Psicoterapia e meditazione relazionale (pp. 117–137). Edizioni Edra.
- Kristen, A., Lecchi, T., Loades, M. E., & Midgley, N. (2024). “I can’t escape my scars, even if I do get better”: A qualitative exploration of how adolescents talk about their self-harm and self-harm scars during cognitive behavioural therapy for depression. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1177/13591045241241348
- Amin Choudhury, A., Lecchi, T., & Midgley, N. (2023). Understanding change – developing a typology of therapy outcomes from the experience of adolescents with depression. Psychotherapy Research. DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2023.2179440
- MacKean, M., Lecchi, T., Mortimer, R., & Midgley, N. (2023). ‘I’ve started my journey to coping better’: exploring adolescents’ journeys through an internet-based psychodynamic therapy (I-PDT) for depression. Journal of Child Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1080/0075417X.2023.2173271
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