People

Fiona Hannah

Postgraduate Research Student
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
 Fiona Hannah

Profile

Ask me about
  • Freud and his dogs, working psychodynamically with children/ adolescents and using dogs as part of the therapeutic process.,

Biography

After gaining a undergraduate degree in psychology I trained in counselling, mentoring and completed my teacher training as well as becoming a samaritan. I then completed boht my grauate diploma in psychodynamic thinking and masters degree in child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counselling. I have worked in schools as a teacher and psychotherapeutic counsellor and started my own private practice Teenage Mental Health in 2019, in Ipswich Suffolk. This practice has grown rapidly and now sees over 200 patients per week and I remain the clinical director of the organsiation. Following a special interest in workign with dogs and children psychodynamically I am now conducting research in this area as aprt of my proessional doctorate at the University of Essex.

Qualifications

  • Bsc Psychology University of Essex (2006)

  • Graduate Diploma Psychodynamic Thinking University of Essex (2017)

  • Ba Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic counselling University of Essex (2019)

Research and professional activities

Thesis

The Therapy dog in the room: Exploring the role and dynamics of a Therapy dog involvement in the therapeutic process in child and adolescent work

Contact

fmmhan@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus

Working pattern:

I am generally available 9am - 12pm Monday -Friday