Victoria Childs is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over thirty years experience in private practice in central London. She is involved in several psychotherapy organisations and in 2015 was a founder member of PCU, the first trade union for psychotherapists and counsellors. In 2023 she founded, with others, the Working Class Psychotherapists Association (WCPA).

For over twenty years she has also produced films, programmed and chaired events on psychoanalytic topics. She has written and presented material to promote debate around the interface between psychoanalysis and politics, with a particular interest in class politics and the history of critical psychiatry.