Dr. Janet Reibstein

About the event

Dr. Janet Reibstein is a psychologist, academic, researcher, broadcaster, and psychotherapist. She is Professor Emerita in the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter, where she directed the postgraduate programme in family and couple therapy for MSc and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology students.

Dr. Reibstein has been on expert advisory boards and panels  to various government agencies, helping set practices and standards for psychotherapy and a suite of divorce and separation and parenting programmes within the UK (including writing the official UK Parenting Programme and “Listening to Children” both given to divorcing couples by the courts). She has sat on various boards of organisations concerned with families and relationships, including Relate and was clinical consultant to the charity, One plus One, and for many years was on the Academic Advisory Board to The Mind Gym, a business consultancy, with the brief to advise on research and practice in the field of relationships. Presently she is a Trustee of The Green House, the charity and therapeutic service to children experiencing sexual abuse, in Bristol.

She is the author of a number of books, the most recent being Good Relations: Cracking the code of how to get on better, as well as numerous publications both in the academic and in the popular media.

Dr. Reibstein has broadcast two Radio 4 series on couples, as well as a 5-part Channel 4 series based on her work, called Love Life.  She is also on the Faculty of the Children and Family Practice in London, and the London Intercultural Couples Centre, where she has a private practice.