Dr. Pia Tohme Khalaf
Dr. Pia Tohme Khalaf graduated with a Ph.D. from University College London, investigating parental mentalizing capacities with regards to their adolescent identical twins and their effects on attachment security. She is trained in the Approach to Parenting Teenagers from the Open Door Young People’s consultation services and in Mentalization Based Therapy for Children and Adolescents, as well as its application in a school setting, from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London. She currently works in private practice with children, adolescents, and their parents, based on attachment and mentalizing principles, and is a preschool consultant psychotherapist. She regularly gives parenting workshops discussing creative hands-on ideas promoting healthy development throughout childhood and communication skills in adolescence. Her main research interests focus on the cross-cultural application of the construct of attachment in Lebanon, as well as the role played by mentalizing in our culture, in promoting healthy development from infancy through to adolescence.