Trudie Rossouw is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the North East London NHS Foundation Trust where she is also the associate medical director for children’s services.
A qualified psychoanalyst, she sets up community services for adolescents with self harm and at present also runs an in/day patient unit for young people where the philosophy underpinning the treatment model is MBT.
Together with Peter Fonagy and Professor Anthony Bateman, from the Anna Freud Centre in London, Trudie developed an adolescent version of Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT) for young people which was based on their original version of MBT for adults with borderline personality disorder.