At MBT Canada, we support mental health professionals across the country with accredited Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) training, supervision, certification pathways, and research-informed resources. As an affiliate of the Anna Freud Centre, we follow international standards and evidence-based best practices.
About MBT-TBM Canada
For over 20 years, MBT has been growing in Canada, helping professionals strengthen relationships, emotional understanding, and clinical impact. Today, our community includes 30 certified MBT practitioners, 10 certified MBT supervisors, and over 175 training participants.
We are proud of this journey and we hope to continue expanding MBT in Canada—supporting professionals, nurturing learning, and helping people thrive.
Meet our trainers
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She is the director of Mentalization Based Treatment Canada, the founder of a Clinic for the treatment of Complex Trauma, and is an Anna Freud Center recognized MBT supervisor (Child, Adolescent, and Adult) and trainer (Child and Adolescent).
The author of a number of books on the treatment of children and adolescents, including Mentalization Based Treatment for Children, Karin has published widely on the development of mentalizing, the role of mentalizing as a resilience factor in the context of trauma, and personality disorders in adults, parents, adolescents and children. She has active research collaborations in the UK, US, Italy, Spain, France, Norway and Chile.
Karin completed her PhD at UCL with Peter Fonagy and Mary Target on mentalizing in children while working at the Anna Freud Center in London. She provides trainings for the assessment of mentalization in therapists, children and parents.
He is also Assistant Professor at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK).
He acts as associate, supervisor and trainer in mentalization-based therapies at the Anna Freud Centre in London (UK), as well as in the francophone network for mentalization-based therapies.
She trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London and obtained her clinical doctorate from University College London for her work on clinical applications of attachment theory to working clinically with chronically ill adolescents. She is currently in private practice in New Haven, CT where she is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center as a member of the early childhood team. She is a member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society.
Dr. Malberg is co-editor of the Child and Adolescent Sections of the recently published PDM-2 (Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual). She is one of five authors of the recently published book: Time limited MBT-C published by the American Psychological Association Press and a guest master clinician for the APA video series on Mentalization.
Karin a terminé son doctorat au University College de Londres avec Peter Fonagy et Mary Target sur la mentalisation chez les enfants, tout en travaillant au Centre Anna Freud à Londres. Elle effectue des formations pour l’évaluation de la mentalisation chez les thérapeutes, les enfants et les parents.
He is also Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London; Consultant to the Child and Family Programme at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine; and holds visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools.
The link between human attachment and social cognition led Fonagy, Bateman and colleagues to develop a model of and a highly effective treatment approach for borderline personality disorders (BPD).
He is also Visiting Professor University College, London; Honorary Professor in Psychotherapy University of Copenhagen.
Anthony developed mentalization based treatment with Peter Fonagy for borderline personality disorder and wrote the manual for mental health professionals on Structured Clinical Management of Personality Disorder.
He has authored 14 books including Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: mentalization based treatment and, most recently,Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorder: a practical guide (2016) (with Peter Fonagy).
A qualified psychoanalyst, she sets up community services for adolescents with self harm and at present also runs an in/day patient unit for young people where the philosophy underpinning the treatment model is MBT.
Together with Peter Fonagy and Professor Anthony Bateman, from the Anna Freud Centre in London, Trudie developed an adolescent version of Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT) for young people which was based on their original version of MBT for adults with borderline personality disorder.
