About me
About Me
Pei-I Yang | Family & Systemic Psychotherapist
Clinical Director – Rainbow Parenting & Family Therapy
When family issues escalate, or when family life feels tense, disconnected, or reactive, it can be difficult to know where to begin. I support families who are experiencing relational strain, mental health difficulties, behavioural concerns (particularly with adolescents), or emotional patterns that feel stuck—despite previous efforts.
I’m a UKCP-accredited Integrative Family & Systemic Psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience working with families across managerial, clinical, therapeutic and consultative roles.
But what matters most isn’t the number of years.
It’s that I understand how quickly things can unravel inside a family — even when everyone is loving, and trying their best.
Often, families come to me when:
- A teenager’s behaviour feels frightening, unpredictable, or completely out of character
- With parenting challenges, such as parenting children/young people with ADHD or Austim, teenagers with mental health difficulities (depression, anxieties...etc)
- Emotions are either explosive or completely shut down
- Arguments escalate before anyone realises what’s happening
- Or previous support has left them feeling blamed, judged, or misunderstood.
Families are often caught in patterns they can’t see clearly from the inside.
My role is to help you understand what’s happening beneath the behaviour — the emotional currents, the unspoken expectations, the histories shaping today’s reactions — and to support you in building safer, more connected ways forward, together.
How I Work
I work relationally to support families navigating complex family issues, including teen aggression, communication breakdowns, intergenerational tensions, or unresolved relational patterns that haven’t shifted through other support.
I look at what’s happening between people: the emotions, expectations, and histories that shape how families relate over time.
My approach draws from four disciplines I’m deeply trained in:
Systemic psychotherapy, psychology, psychoanalytic thinking, and child development. This allows me to hold emotional complexity while guiding you toward practical, sustainable change.
Therapy with me is collaborative, reflective, and deeply respectful. We move at a pace that feels safe while working toward real repair—one conversation at a time.
Who I Work With
I support families navigating: (This is not an exhausitve list)
- Teen aggression, outbursts, or emotional shutdown
- Constant conflict or painful silence between family members
- Parenting children/teens with ADHD or Autism
- Parenting challenges that leave you feeling exhausted or blamed
- Relationships between adult children and parents
- Behavioural, emotional, or relational struggles in children and teens
- Differences in parenting styles or co-parenting after separation
- Complex histories, trauma, or intergenerational patterns
- High conflicts families
- Young people experiencing anxiety, low self-worth, or regulation difficulties
- Families who’ve tried other support, but feel stuck
- Any other family issues and challenges
If your family feels caught in a cycle you can’t seem to shift — whether the difficulties are recent or have been present for years — family therapy can help create space for understanding and change.
A Safe Space for Every Voice
I offer a non-judgemental, respectful therapeutic space where every family member’s perspective matters. My role is to help families see the system they are all part of, understand what’s maintaining the difficulty, and support families to move toward greater stability, connection, and harmony.
What Is Family & Systemic Psychotherapy?
Family and Systemic Psychotherapy (also known as family therapy) focuses on relationships rather than individuals alone. It recognises that emotional distress and difficulties often arise within relational contexts — families, partnerships, and wider systems.
This approach helps individuals and families understand how patterns of interaction, communication, and emotional responses develop, and how they can be changed. Family therapy can be helpful for children, young people, adults, and older adults, and can work with couples, families, carers, and intergenerational relationships.
It is a collaborative process, supporting people to make sense of their experiences together and find new ways of relating that support wellbeing and resilience.
Family Therapy is not just for families in crisis. It’s for families who are stuck in painful patterns and want to rebuild connection, trust, and communication—together
What to Expect in Your First Session
I usually begin with an initial session to meet you (or your family), understand what brings you to therapy, and explore what you would like help with. This allows us to consider together whether family therapy feels like the right approach and how we might work going forward. In some cases, more than one initial session may be helpful before agreeing on next steps.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience:
For 30 years, I have helped families in the most extreme, high-risk, and complex situations - cases where everyone else had failed.
- I’ve stepped into homes where police, social services, and professionals had already given up - where a teen was on the edge of care, aggression had become the norm, and the family was one crisis away from collapse.
- I’ve also led in managerial, clinical, consultative, and therapeutic roles, working at every level - from frontline crisis intervention to transforming entire family systems.
Here's who I have worked with (not limited to):
- Families entangle in domestic abuse, violence, addiction, and intergenerational trauma
- Teens who are at the edge of care, refuse school, run away, or are trapped in gang culture, sexual exploitation, and organised crime
- Parents who are overwhelmed by child/teen-to-parent aggression, antisocial behaviour, and extreme emotional shutdowns
- Children/Teens who had experienced severe abuse, neglect, and trauma, and parents who don’t know how to rebuild trust
- Families on the edge of separation and legal intervention because nothing had worked
- Looked after and accommodated children - supporting their foster carers, adoptive parents, and kinship families in navigating the complexities of attachment, trauma, and identity.
- Teens who are struggling with mental health challenges, including depression, self-harm, and anxiety, where traditional therapy has failed.
- Neurodivergent families navigating the challenges of raising a teen with autism, ADHD, or complex needs - without the right support or resources.
- Parents and teens dealing with psychological disorders - including OCD, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, PTSD, Eating disorder and complex trauma.
- Adult children and their parents navigating unresolved issues
- Blended, co-parenting, or intergenerational families facing complexity
Families who have tried traditional therapy but still feel stuck
Qualification:
- MSc in Childhood Studies
- MSc in Psychological Studies
- MSc in Psychoanalytical Thinking: Skills to work with children and young people
- MSc in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy
- UKCP Registered
- Member of AFT
- Trainee membership for the British Psychoanalytical Council
- Senior member of The Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Adolescent behaviour difficulties
- Family relationship difficulties
- Adolescent and Adult mental health issues
- Parenting issues
Domestic violence and abuse - The effects of trauma, abuse or/and neglect
- Fostering, adoption, kinship care and the needs of looked after children
- Adult behaviour difficulties
- Separation, divorce and step-family life
- Self-harm
- Drug and alcohol misuse
- The effects of trauma
Therapies offered
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Fees
Additional information
What working with a Family Therapist actually looks like?
You don’t have to sign up for endless weekly sessions.
In fact, most of the families I work with see me every two weeks — giving you time to reflect, try new approaches, and not feel overwhelmed by the process.
Some families only need a handful of sessions to see real movement. Others choose to stay longer to deepen the change. There’s no one-size-fits-all path. The pacing is flexible to reflect the needs of you and your family.
What matters most is that we focus on what’s most urgent in your family dynamic right now, and move at a pace that’s supportive — not stressful.
If you've been putting off therapy because you're afraid it means a long, expensive commitment… Let’s take that pressure off.
A calm, connected family doesn’t require years of therapy. Just the right support at the right time.
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Limited availability. Fees are discussed at initial enquiry. Family therapy is unlike individual therapy, the sessions often involve multiple family members at a time.
Each session is 70 minutes.
When I work
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Further information
If you have any enquiries about how Family Therapy can help your family, please contact me on enquiries@rainbowfamilytherapy.co.uk
All in person sessions are held in the clinic in Edinburgh City Centre. Information will be provided when booking is confirmed and payment made.
