[3][4] Towards the end of her PhD, Perelberg worked with anorexia nervosa patients at Maudsley Hospital, before moving into a role as Senior Psychotherapist and Family Therapist at the Marlborough Family Service, where she worked between 1981 and 1991.
[5] For 18 years, between 1997 and 2016, Perelberg was the coordinator of the Freud Seminars as part of the MSc in Psychoanalytic Theory at University College London (UCL), as well as those on Sexuality.
[14] She has also been quoted by The Guardian in stories about overcoming hypochondria[15] and nervousness about singing in public.
[16] In 2023, Perelberg won the Sigourney Award for her work establishing a creative dialogue between psychoanalysis and social anthropology to address temporality, sexuality and antisemitism.
In 1991, Perelberg was the co-recipient of the Sacerdoti Prize at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress, in Buenos Aires.