Parents and Children

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With over 13 years of experience working with children, parents, and families across the NHS, I understand how complex and emotionally demanding family life can be. I’ve worked in a range of settings including CAMHS, child health, adult mental health, learning disability services, and neuropsychology, supporting both adults and young people. I have a particular interest in supporting neurodivergent children and adults. I have completed additional training in neuro-affirming practice (you can read more about my training here).
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I support parents through challenges such as bereavement, anxiety, low mood, shame, burnout, and the everyday struggles of raising children. The emotional load of holding so much, often while feeling isolated, guilty, or unsure how to cope, can be overwhelming.

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Therapy offers a space to pause and reflect on your needs as a parent, rebuild self-compassion and confidence, and find practical ways to manage stress and emotional overwhelm. My approach integrates EMDR, Narrative Therapy, and Compassion-Focused Therapy, alongside body-based, nervous system focused strategies. Together, these approaches help you understand how past experiences may be shaping current struggles whether that’s parental burnout, stress, anger, repeating old patterns, or feeling disconnected, and support you to feel steadier, more resourced, and better able to meet both yourself and your child with compassion.

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Parents often come to me because they’re concerned about their child’s emotions or behaviour; perhaps frequent meltdowns, anger, anxiety, trauma responses, burnout, or withdrawal. I don’t see these as “bad behaviours” to fix, but as communications from their nervous system, signs that a child is overwhelmed or struggling with unmet needs. Together, we explore what these experiences might be telling us, looking at your child’s strengths, relationships, and environment to understand the bigger picture.

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Sometimes I work directly with children to help them develop skills for managing emotions, building safety, and recovering from difficult experiences. Other times, I work with parents first or alongside individual sessions with the child, depending on the nature of the difficulty and the child’s age. This is because, especially for younger children or those feeling particularly overwhelmed, it can be hard to do the work on their own at first - they often need their parent’s support to help them regulate and feel safe. Children aren’t born knowing how to calm themselves when they feel big emotions. Self-regulation develops gradually, and in the meantime, they rely on their parents to be their anchor; someone who helps them feel safe, steady, and understood until they can manage these feelings on their own. Therapy can help strengthen this connection, supporting you both  to feel more regulated and connected. We’ll discuss what approach feels most supportive to your family and how to structure sessions during the assessment process.

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​I offer flexible options depending on your needs. Sometimes just one or two consultations are enough to bring clarity around a specific issue such as untangling ongoing challenges, finding ways to cope in a difficult time or understanding your own or your child’s neurotype. For more in-depth support, short-term therapy (6–10 sessions) can focus on a particular goal, while longer-term therapy provides space to process trauma, explore identity, and support ongoing growth over time.

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I am passionate about helping people get 'unstuck'; to understand themselves and their child more deeply, and to develop new, more compassionate ways of relating to their emotions, their patterns, and each other. Being human can be tricky, and parenting adds another layer of complexity. In a world where it can feel like we’re constantly navigating stress, comparison, and pressure, I believe there is real power in learning gentler, more supportive ways of being with ourselves and others. When we create change and healing within ourselves, it naturally ripples outward — supporting our families, our communities, and the wider world.