Dr Ana Draper is a Consultant Systemic psychotherapist working in the Community Palliative Care team in Hertfordshire. She has developed a multi-system therapeutic service working with bereaved families and has been a consultant for the Childhood Bereavement Network. She has authored information and therapeutic story books for parents and children as well as academic papers on therapeutic work in palliative care.

She has spoken at the House of Commons about issues concerning childhood bereavement, as well as teaching modules and short courses at the Tavistock Mental Health Trust, KCC foundation and Kings College, London. She has also supported NGO’s in Malawi and Ecuador by providing training for clinicians working in a palliative setting.