Ana Lund

Ana first studied maths and computer science and went on to earn a masters in computational biology from Paris XI University (computational biology is cross over between computer science and biology) and then a PhD in computational Biology (INRA x Toulouse University). Ana then worked as a researcher in a Manchester University, Faculty of Life Science lab that focuses on the role of a class of non-coding RNA. While there, Ana also earned a post-graduate diploma in Social Anthropology at Manchester University.

 

In 2016 Ana decided to finally fully embrace another passion of hers, which is the intricacy and complexity of human nature, emotions and behaviours and trained to become a therapist. 

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Ever since, in her work as a psychotherapist she was keen to explore and make connections between psychotherapy (literally the work of healing the soul, from the greek origin of the word) and neuroscience, and especially the relatively new field of affective neuroscience, the science of emotions.

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It has been a fascinating and rewarding journey so far, to translate the scientific findings into practice, to keep a form of scientific thinking in the practice with clients and realising over and over again how complex human nature is, seen through the lens of evolution, behaviour and adaptive and maladaptive behaviours. 

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Ana is keen to share these skills with the broader psychotherapeutic community, whether it is making neuroscience more palatable for psychotherapists or helping lay the foundations of rigorous scientific thinking and method. 

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Ana's biggest heroes are Joseph LeDoux (clear thinking, no BS), Robert Sapolsky (primates, translating complicated concepts into more digestible language) and Louis Cozolino. Ana was lucky enough to have Louis Cozolino as one of her supervisers.

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Ana is a member of BACP (British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and GAINS (Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Society). 

 

Ana is also an avid meditator and, not surprisingly, fascinated by understanding the effects that meditative practice exerts on our brain.

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When not working, Ana is probably running and contemplating some paradoxes of the human  or/and doing garage science experiments with her son.

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