Meet Cleo Van Velsen:

Until May 2017 Dr. Van Velsen was Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy based within the Forensic Personality Disorder service of the East London NHS Foundation Trust.  Her post was as a Responsible Clinician in a Community of Communities Accredited Therapeutic Community, which specialises in forensic personality disorder in men. Most of the patients are transferred prisoners. 

She trained a Doctor in London and went on to train as a Psychiatrist and specialised in Psychotherapy.  She was Consultant Psychotherapist at the Maudsley Hospital for five years.  She is a member of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. 

Dr Van Velsen worked for one year in the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and completed research in the area of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  She is co-editor of a text book of Forensic Psychotherapy and a section editor of the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis.