Biography

Who is Ann?

Widely regarded as London’s top parenting expert, Ann Herreboudt has more than 30 years’ experience as a child psychologist, family therapist, midwife, fertility expert, breastfeeding consultant, antenatal advisor.

Ann is a qualified Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapist and a registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). She was recently awarded an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies and holds a teaching post for postgraduate students at the Parent Infant School in Hampstead. Ann is a qualified grief counsellor for children and young adults and holds a qualification from Regent’s University in arbitration and reconciliation.

An established fertility expert, Ann supports clients through all the natural and clinical options open to them.

Ann spent years working alongside renowned consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Yehudi Gordon at his Viveka clinic and the famous John and Lizzie's birth unit at the Hospital of St John & Elizabeth in St John's Wood.

Drawing on her personal and professional experiences, Ann ran one of the world’s longest ongoing postnatal support groups for parents, toddlers and babies in North London for more than two decades.

Through her clinics at various Central and North London locations, she provides one to one support to patients in areas ranging from psychotherapy and practical parenting to birth preparation and post-natal support. Ann supports families on a wide range of issues they face. These include transitions (particularly school transfers), grief, teenage and social anxieties, children and young people with learning difficulties, families going through separation and divorce, and relationship mediation.