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Dr Giada Del Fabbro obtained her Masters in Forensic Psychology at the University of Kent (Canterbury) in 2001, after completing her BSc Hons (Applied Psychology) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1999. She subsequently completed a Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Psychology in 2006. She is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa in the category of Clinical Psychologist (Independent Practice) as well as with the British Psychological Society as a Graduate Member and American Psychological Association as an International Affiliate. She is currently working as a Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Child and Family Unit, at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.

She has considerable clinical, assessment and therapeutic experience in the field of child and adolescent psychology, having worked for two years in the child outpatient clinic at Weskoppies hospital, as well as Tara Child Clinic and Ward. She works from a predominantly psychoanalytic and attachment theory frame and has run workshops on dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents and children. She is also involved in lecturing and training intern psychologists and psychiatry registrar in the areas of psychotherapy, child psychotherapy and personality disorders.