Margot Sunderland

Margot Sunderland is a British child psychologist and psychotherapist. She is Director of Education and Training at the Centre for Child Mental Health [1] and Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University at London Metropolitan University. She has been working with families and children for over 30 years. She is the author of over twenty books in the field of child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in 24 countries.

Her internationally acclaimed book, The Science of Parenting won First Prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book awards 2007 Popular Medicine section. The book, endorsed by the affective neuroscientist Professor Jaak Panksepp, is the result of ten years research on the long-term effects of adult-child interaction on the developing brain. The book has also been voted one of the top brain books of our time by the Dana Foundation. Her books which form the "Helping Children with Feelings" series are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals.

Sunderland is also Chief Executive and Founding Director of the Institute for Arts and Therapy in Education,[2] an Independent Higher Education College and academic partner of University of East London, training child psychotherapists, child counsellors and art therapists. Sunderland has written or co-written master's degree programmes, unique in the field of child mental health e.g. MA Integrative Child Psychotherapy and MA Education: Emotional Literacy for Children. She is also founder of the 'Helping Where it Hurts' programme which offers free arts therapy to troubled children in Islington Primary schools.