Sue Gerhardt

Dr.Sue Gerhardt is a practicing psychotherapist living and working in Oxford, England. Her first job after leaving Cambridge University was as a paralegal worker in a community law centre in north London, working mainly with disaffected youths in trouble with the law. She later went on to become a film-maker,of films such as Tell It Like It Is, about sexual abuse within the black community. In the 1990s,she became a psychotherapist and studied early child development with the Tavistock Clinic. Inspired by the work of Daniel Stern, she co-founded a charity, the Oxford Parent Infant Project (OXPIP)in 1997 to provide psychotherapy for parents and babies under 2. The organisation continues to flourish and serves around 500 families a year. She is delighted that there are now many new PIPs springing into existence around the UK.