After the Freud family were forced to leave Vienna in 1938, with the advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, she resumed her psychoanalytic practice and her pioneering work in child psychology in London, establishing the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic in 1952 (now renamed the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) as a centre for therapy, training and research work.
Despois de que a familia Freud fose obrigada a abandonar Viena en 1938 coa chegada do réxime Nazi a Austria, retomou a práctica psicanalítica e o seu traballo pioneiro en psicoloxía infantil en Londres, establecendo a Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic (hoxe chamada Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) en 1952 como centro de terapia, adestramento e investigación.