Anne Alvarez PhD MACP, trained as a Clinical Psychologist in Canada and the USA before training as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the UK. She is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic in London.

She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children. and has edited with Susan Reid Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honour, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002.

She was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005.