The Parent Infant Centre – The Parent Infant Clinic & The School Of Infant Mental Health
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What We Do
At the Parent Infant Centre, we provide infant mental health services and support to children and their families across London and the UK. We’re specialists in autism, ADHD and other mental health, learning and development problems. The centre is run by Dr Stella Acquarone, a Child Psychotherapist who is recognised as a worldwide authority on infant mental health and has pioneered studies in early infant clinical research and development.
The Parent Infant Centre comprises of The Parent Infant Clinic and The School of Infant Mental Health, both of which are based in London and the UK. The Parent Infant Clinic is a private clinic which offers parent-infant as well as child and adolescent psychotherapy services for all types of behavioural and mental health issues. For professionals who work with infants and young children, the School of Infant Mental Health can help you further your professional development with a range of UKCP certified courses and training.
Meet Dr Stella Acquarone
Adult, Child and Parent Infant Psychotherapist
PhD, ACP, UKCP, BCP & NAAP
Helping children with early symptoms of the autistic spectrum has been Stella Acquarone’s life’s work. Her goal as the Principal of the Parent-Infant Clinic and of the School of Infant Mental Health in London is to help parents and professionals identify the early signs in autistic spectrum, for it is in these early stages, which can be seen as early as 3 months, when the greatest results can be achieved.
She is a practicing adult and child psychotherapist, having worked in the National Health Service on detecting early signs in the autistic spectrum and providing early intervention. She did this work for nearly thirty years before establishing the Parent Infant Centre in 1990 which today is recognised world-wide as an authority on how to assess, diagnose and treat at-risk babies with mental health problems.
Qualifications:
Dr Acquarone has a PhD in Psychology and is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Association of Child Psychotherapists, The British Psychoanalytic Council, and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, the National Association for the advancement in Psychoanalysis (USA) and the World Association of Infant Mental Health amongst others.
Dr Acquarone’s credentials include:
Research: pioneering studies in early infant clinical research and development, as well as in the autistic spectrum.
Teaching: training on infant observational studies and new clinical strategies in working with disturbed children, and lecturing internationally on all aspects of infant-parent development and psychotherapy
Literature: extensive writing on early detection of the autistic spectrum and on interventions in professional papers, journals and
contributing chapters in many books, plus has written five books
Happy Clients
"To put it simply, Dr Acquarone and the professionals at the Centre gave me my family back…They believe you can see signs of autism very early on from birth and that they can eradicate those behaviours if you can get it early enough. My son has been through this therapy and treatment. Within a two-and-a-half-week intensive course with a clinic his speech came back very rapidly. It is very expensive so they started a charity to raise money for people who cannot afford to put their children through the therapy."
Melanie Sykes
"I have engaged with the Parent-Infant Clinic last year in order to receive support and treatment for our 2-year old child, who was experiencing feeding difficulties. The clinicians were professional, understanding and supportive towards us. After an initial consultation, where they assessed our needs, they offered us a treatment plan, which involved sessions with both our child and us as parents. It was great to see how after a brief number of sessions we immediately noticed improvements and were able to understand the issues underlying our child's feeding problems. We were also offered advice for post-treatment and we have been invited to contact the clinic again in case we needed to. We definitely recommend this service for parents, who are concerned about their child."
Jane Manners
"This service has been great in helping our family and I would recommend it to other parents who want to help their children when there are concerns. Our one and a half year old daughter was having problems with sleeping, as she would wake up countless times during the nights. My partner and I were really exhausted and unsure on how to deal with it. Dr Acquarone met with us for several sessions. She helped us to understand our daughter's difficulty and gave us different suggestions, which allowed us to resolve the problem within several weeks. Keep up the good work!"
Rose Mazzilli
"Friendly & Professional!!! As simple as that.... I took my kids there, staff were very friendly, very professional, they knew my kid's issues just by the first time.... Thank you soo much for everything!!! Totally recommended..."
Mazen Kamar