About

Pia Tohme

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
Chairperson, Department of Psychology and Education

Pia Tohme Khalaf graduated with a PhD from University College London, investigating parental mentalizing capacities with regards to their adolescent identical twins and its effects on attachment security.

Dr. Tohme Khalaf 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 is involved in the setting up of fun and accessible activities for toddlers and preschoolers, focusing on emotion expression and emotion regulation. She regularly gives parenting workshops discussing creative hands-on ideas promoting healthy development throughout childhood and communication skills in adolescence. She also volunteers in various NGOs working with children in need.