Are you looking for some support specifically for the relationship between you and your child? Do you feel that your child is struggling and you woul…

Just like children in care, those removed from their homes and sent off to boarding school are also looked after by strangers. This form of ‘privileg…

What is an inner child? We all have an inner child. It is who we are when we were born, our natural relational core self. That includes our natural…

"Why on earth would I want to do that?" You might be asking yourself. Yet, hundreds of parents consciously or unconsciously behave in ways that effe…

As your children are on countdown until the end of school term and getting excited about the six weeks holiday they have ahead, how does that make yo…

Why, from time to time, we need to allow our children to experience a level of discomfort  While most of us are hopefully unambivalent about the nee…

Through my work with adolescents marginalised and excluded from mainstream education, I have come to understand that certain language and behaviour a…

In the 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumarind looked at the different ways parents guide, socialise and control their children. She named three styles o…

Mammals and humans need, and are responsive to, signals of care and affection and have evolved attachment mechanisms that are sensitive and responsiv…

It is going to be that very stressful time of the year again, when thousands and thousands of young adults will take examinations to decide their fut…

We are all aware that our primary relationship with our mother is hugely influential to our development. When our early emotional needs are not fully…

Walking through an East Sussex coastal town at 8 o'clock one Saturday evening in early February, with wind and sleet beating my face, I saw a young b…