This Sunday is Mother’s Day which is often seen as a day filled with love, appreciation, and celebration. But for many ex-boarders, it can be a com...

 January 2025.  Happy New Year!

The Christmas season is over.

This year I opted out altogether and woke up on Christmas Day in Goa in India.  It is ...

How hard is it to shift such beliefs that we may have about ourselves? 

Often, we make these core beliefs about ourselves when we are children and i...

Why keep showing up and doing the work?

Last night I had a final session with a group of women who I first started working with in 2022.  They took a...

Much of the content of this blog post is taken from an article I had published in "Therapy Today," in December 2022. 

With Enid Blyton’s stories of m...

I hear this often.  Sometimes clients come with trepidation, aware that Boarding School was very traumatic for them. Others come saying, “I had a grea...

In 2019, 4 former teachers and the chaplain from the boarding school I went to were jailed for sexual abuse. I could name you several others, who have...

This is a question I have been asked often.

Unfortunately, most people I work with who are exploring the impact of their boarding school upbringing a...

A 16-year-old boy was charged with two accounts of attempted murder in a boarding school in Devon.  He wishes to remain anonymous, but with his permis...

John Bowlby's Attachment Theory explains the impact that early childhood relationships and experiences have on our development. He attains that childr...

This September I made the long drive from Brighton to Edinburgh to take my eldest daughter to University for the first time. We could have taken the t...