FEEL SEEN FEEL SAFE FIND YOUR WAY

As a parent whose family have never neatly fitted into society's boxes, and as a therapist with over 20 years of experience, I know that every family is unique. There is no single "right" way to parent, no two children are the same, and life rarely fits neatly into categories.

Family life is wonderfully rewarding, often chaotic, and sometimes incredibly hard. There are days when it can feel as though your bucket isn't just leaking—it has more holes than sides. During those times, having the right understanding, support, and practical strategies can make all the difference. 

 Whether you're navigating pregnancy, parenting, neurodiversity, mental health, grief, or simply the everyday ups and downs of family life, these workshops provide a safe, supportive space to learn, reflect, and connect. Every session combines evidence-based knowledge with practical ideas that can be adapted to your family's unique strengths, challenges, and experiences. 

Children and young people's mental health cannot be understood in isolation. Every child exists within a family, relationships, schools, communities and the everyday experiences that shape who they are.

Sessions utilise a family-centred lens to move beyond diagnosis alone towards relational, strengths-based and participation-focused care, developing practical approaches that understand the whole child and empower families to thrive.

• Understanding your Childs Mental Health
• Supporting Emotional Regulation
• Anxiety, Low Mood and Big Emotions
• Parenting through Difficult Times
• School, Friendships and Everyday Life
• When You're Worried
• Growing Together

 The earliest relationships shape how children experience themselves and the world. These sessions explore attachment, connection, emotional development and responsive caregiving, while recognising that families don't need perfection—they need relationships that can repair and grow. 

• Understanding your baby's emotional world
• Building secure attachment in everyday life
• Why "good enough" parenting really is enough
• Bonding after a difficult pregnancy or birth
• Connection through play, routines and relationships

 Grief in childhood is rarely straightforward. This training explores how children experience death, loss and change across development, while supporting the adults around them to respond with confidence, compassion and honesty. Particular expertise is offered in traumatic bereavement, suicide loss and navigating complex family grief. 

• How children understand death at different ages
• What to say (and what not to say)
• Supporting your child without trying to "fix" their grief
• Remembering safely: continuing bonds after loss
• Parenting while grieving
• Navigating love, anger, guilt and confusion after bereavement

 Behaviour is communication. This training explores how sensory processing, nervous system regulation and development influence participation, learning and emotional wellbeing. Sessions take a neurodiversity-affirming approach, focusing on understanding rather than changing behaviour. 

• Is it behaviour or sensory processing?
• Understanding your child's nervous system
• Everyday sensory strategies that actually work
• Helping children develop emotional regulation
• Creating calmer family routines

 The transition into parenthood can be joyful, overwhelming and deeply complex. These sessions acknowledge the realities of postnatal mental health while promoting compassionate, relationship-based approaches to recovery for both parents and babies. 

• When parenthood isn't what you expected
• Looking after yourself while caring for your baby
• Understanding anxiety, depression and overwhelm
• Rebuilding confidence after birth
• Finding support without shame

 Life isn't lived in a therapy room. These workshops focus on making everyday life more manageable by supporting routines, independence, participation and practical problem-solving within real family life. 

• Making everyday life easier
• Building routines that work for your family
• Supporting independence without constant battles
• Daily living skills across childhood
• Reducing stress at home

 Relationships are at the heart of family life. These sessions explore communication, emotional safety and connection, helping families strengthen relationships while navigating conflict, change and differing needs. 

• Communicating when emotions run high
• Repair after difficult moments
• Helping siblings understand one another
• Building stronger family relationships
• Connection before correction

 This training challenges deficit-based models by exploring trauma, neurodiversity and behaviour through compassionate, relational and evidence-informed lenses. Participants are encouraged to move beyond compliance towards understanding, participation and meaningful inclusion. 

• Understanding your neurodivergent child
• Looking beyond behaviour
• Supporting emotional regulation
• Reducing masking at home
• Creating environments where children can thrive

 Drawing upon clinical expertise, Mad Studies scholarship and lived understanding, these workshops explore parenting while living with significant mental health difficulties. Sessions challenge stigma while promoting hope, agency and compassionate family support. 

• Parenting through depression, mania or instability
• Motherhood and identity
• Repairing relationships after difficult moments
• What children need—and what they don't
• Letting go of the "perfect parent" myth
• Loving your child while struggling yourself
• Managing shame, guilt and fear
• Building family safety plans

 Families rarely experience one challenge in isolation. This reflective training explores the intersection of neurodiversity, trauma, disability, grief, mental health and family life, recognising that complexity deserves curiosity rather than judgement. 

• When everything feels connected
• Supporting multiple needs within one family
• Looking after yourself while caring for others
• Building resilience without perfection
• Finding what works for your family