 While Jack was Professor of Egyptology at Oxford, Meena maintained a psychoanalytical practice on Harley Street in London.After World War II she worked closely with Anna Freud, and in the 1960s she practised in the US

After she completed her psychoanalytic training, Meena accompanied Jack while he was working in Egypt, and in 1928, their son J.B. Gunn, known as Iain, (later a physicist) was born in Cairo.