Sheila Yahya Levi : Adult, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Chartered Clinical Psychologist
I have over 30 years of psychodynamically orientated clinical experience working with children, adolescents, families and adults in the UK, Israel and Turkey. Having worked and lived in various countries I have a great deal of inter- cultural experience.
Since 1990 I have been actively involved in many aspects of psychotherapy including:
- Running support groups for parents with special needs children and vulnerable adults;
- Conducting workshops at schools encouraging creative expression of children's internal worlds;
- Designing and implementing a therapeutic programme to assist child survivors of an earthquake;
- Conducting numerous professional seminars, workshops and serving on normal and abnormal child development and psychological interventions;
- Worked for 15 years at NHS in adults as well as CAMHS as a highly specialized clinical psychologist.
- Significant clinical experience with minority groups in every age and level of difficulty.
- Acted as clinical coordinator for the pilot implementation of Support Groups for Turkish speaking mothers at Enfield primary schools, acted as project manager for London Mocep (see below)
- I coordinated London Mother- Child- Education- Project (MOCEP) in Enfield/London between 2012- 2013.
- Teaching and supervising students in mental health field, clinical as well as research related practice.
In May 2020 as was appointed as editor for the British Psychoanalytic Association’s Bulletin.
Affiliated to:
I am a member of the International Psychoanalytice Association (IPA), British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), Bristish Psychological Society (BPS).
I teach at Birkbeck University, MSc - Psychodynamics of Human Development. I lead Mother-Infant Observation Seminars as well as supervise MSc students' dissertations.
