Talking Child Development

In this podcast Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks to her mentor and child psychotherapy tutor Eve Steel.

Eve is a distinguished psychoanalyst organisational consultant and clinical supervisor. She discusses her experience of training initially as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London and of meeting some of the great innovators and pioneers  such as John Bowlby and Donald Winnicott who have made such huge contributions to our understanding of child and adolescent development and family life.

Together they discuss their shared and varied memories of that formative time.

----more----In this podcast based on her presentation to The Therapeutic Consultants in the UK, Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist brings her longstanding expertise as a clinician, author and trainer to elaborate on the importance of therapeutic work with parents when addressing children’s problems.

In this podcast, Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven child and adolescent psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks with Dr. Eva Crasnow and Dr. Sarah Peter, UK based child and adolescent psychotherapists and co-founders of the social enterprise Chorus, which provides therapeutic group work to young children and their parents.

Chorus was the winner of the 2024 Association of Infant Mental Health best practice award for their Zero to Toddler group for adopted toddlers and their parents.

In this episode of Talking Child Development, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven talks with Tracy Christophi. Tracy is a child and adolescent psychotherapist originally from the UK but now based in Western Australia. In her earlier career as a mental health nurse specialist, Tracy has firsthand experience of the devastating impact of traumatic early experience on later childhood and adolescence.

Tracy is passionate about helping children and young people who have experienced relational and developmental trauma. She has written a brief guide for parents and carers to help them understand complex trauma and its effects on children.

https://childpsychotherapyperth.com.au/2025/06/02/supporting-children-after-trauma/

In this podcast Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven talks with Matt Tyler.

Matt is the executive director of the Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services in Melbourne. He works with a team committed to reducing violence, preventing sexual abuse and supporting men and boys to flourish.

Through leading research, including the Man Box Project, these findings are translated into practice in the community.