Marie Derome is the author of What Your Baby Wants You to Know: The Art and Science of Bonding with Your Child. She is Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and a Lecturer in Infant Observation & Child Development at Exeter University. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London and worked in CAMHS in Bristol. She now supports parents who are struggling to bond with their babies in her independent clinic in East Devon.
Before her career change, Marie worked for the BBC World Service as a Foreign Correspondent and wrote for the French newspaper Liberation. Originally from France, Marie now lives with her husband on a small farm in Devon where they have raised their four children.
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