Maranda is a member of the International Relations Committee and co-hosts the China part of Bridging Minds.
Maranda is interested in developmental theories, preventive work, humour and destructiveness. In CPI, she co-taught Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity & Immigration in 2024 and was a member of the DEI Committee. In China, she teaches infant and young child observation and is involved in ethics studies and ethics committee work, psychodynamic psychotherapy training, building up and managing professional organizations that contribute to the development of psychoanalytic education and communities.
Maranda is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and a certified supervisor in the Clinical and Counseling Psychology Registration System in China.
Sze, YT (Ed) (2018). Infant and Young Child Observation in China. Beijing: Hua Xia. ISBN978-7-5080-9581-3 (in Chinese) Yee-Tak (Maranda) Sze (2015) Regulation of anxiety behind quiet adaptation, Infant Observation, 18:3, 205-214, DOI: 10.1080/13698036.2015.1111612 Sze MYT, Ba T, Dai AA (2020). Psychoanalytic infant observation in China-The mental health of children separated from parents. Asia Pac Psychiatry. 2020; e12438. https://doi.org/10.1111/appy.12438 N Li, M Y. T. Sze, and W Lan (2022). From trainees to trainers. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China 5(1) 131–135 Sze, YT and Hou, J, Fang, XY (2014), A Profile of Chinese Family Therapists. Contemporary Family Therapy, online publication. DOI 10.1007/s10591-014-9299-1 Sze, YT, Hou, J, Lan, J & Fang, XY (2011), Brief Report: Profiling Family Therapy Users of a Therapy Center in Beijing. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 39:4, 299-306. DOI: 10.1080/01926187.2010.542073
Maranda works with adults, parents and their infants, children and adolescents in private practice in London. Besides, she participates as an honorary psychotherapist in NHS. She speaks in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.