Stella Acquarone
Psychotherapist in London

Dr Stella Acquarone is a leading pioneer in the emerging field of infant-parent psychotherapy. She is the Founder and the Principal of the Parent Infant Clinic and of the School of Infant Mental Health in London. A practising Adult and Child Psychotherapist, Dr Acquarone has worked in the NHS for 32 years. She has maintained a career-long interest in finding and developing clinical strategies for treating social and communication disorders from birth. She has developed a Scale for Alarm Signals of Emotional Disturbance, and has developed a unique Intensive Infant Family Program called Re-Start, for the treatment of small children with autistic behaviours. She lectures and teaches internationally on all aspects of infant-parent development and psychotherapy and is the author of: Infant-Parent Psychotherapy, A Handbook (Karnac) and Signs of Autism, Recognition and Early Intervention (Karnac). Changing Destinies: the Re-Start Program for early Autistic Behaviours and Surviving the Early Years: from risk to mainstream.Karnac 2017

Background & Psychotherapy Qualifications

University Studies & Degrees
1967 Licentiate Psychologist Assistant
1969 Licentiate in Clinical Psychology with Ph.D.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Salvador Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Postgraduate Studies
1970 - 1972 Adult and Child Psychotherapy training at the School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Research Centre for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1972 - 1976 Child Psychotherapy as Course Associate, completion of the training at the Child & Parent Department, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, and
1974 - 1976 Short Psychotherapy modules at the Adult Department Tavistock Clinic, London, England

My Specialisms

A lifetime of work dedicated to the research, analysis and development of the parent infant relationship.

Approach to Psychotherapy & How I Work

Psychodynamic approach, which seeks to understand the unconscious processes that underlie an individual's conscious thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

Therapies & Rates

Please note the rates detailed below are there to give you an idea of the therapists standard rates, we strongly advise you contact the therapist for more detailed rates and any offers they may have.

Therapy	Appointment Type	Rate
Psychotherapy	In Person	Please Call