Sheila Hyah Sarah Ernst (25 July 1941 – 6 February 2015) was a British psychotherapist who helped to develop a radical feminist approach to group analysis.
[1] At the age of 8 Ernst was sent to the progressive boarding school Dartington Hall and later studied moral sciences and history at Newnham College, Cambridge.
[1] The tensions and experiences within Ernst's formative years helped in the development of her deeply empathetic and political approach to psychotherapy.
[3] Ernst's feminist approach to group analysis explored the external political and social world affects the individual.
[1] She worked at and helped to develop the Women's Therapy Centre in London set up by fellow feminists and psychotherapists Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach in 1976.