Rosemary Loshak

Rosemary Loshak qualified as a social worker in 1979 at the London School of Economics, specialising in mental health, then worked for five years in Suffolk in a child care team. She moved to an inner London borough in 1984 as a child mental health social worker in a hospital based CAMHS team, where she remained for 18 years.

She maintained her interest in adult mental health and for two years she divided her time between CAMHS and adult outpatient work in a hospital based service offering brief psychodynamic treatment to adults in psychosocial crisis or following self-harm. In 2002 she became "Coordinator for children in families with mental illnesS" in the local authority in which role she set up and managed a Children and Adult Mental Health Project (CHAMP) team from 2002 -2009. She is now retired but works privately as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist having trained at the London Centre for Psychotherapy.