How did you develop an interest in these areas?

Personal experience of family breakdown, estrangement, and fractured relationships inspired me to dedicate my career to helping children, young people, and their families navigate these challenges. Working therapeutically with both adults and young clients has revealed how essential open, compassionate communication is to healing: when each person feels heard and understood, even the deepest rifts can begin to repair.

Working with children and young people highlights the prevalence of difficulty in relationships at home and communication barriers between members of the family. A lot of my work has focussed on enabling, exploring and facilitating change through expression of deep needs, acknowledgment of experience and miscommunications within relationships.

By approaching change with an open mind, you can learn to acknowledge, hear and understand yourself and each other. This opens up channels of communication, compassion and enables expression of emotions in different ways. As a parent, if your child is struggling, engaging with your own therapeutic process can provide you with insights which may not be voiced or recognised in any other environment.