Our Practicioners

Emily provides therapy mainly from our space in Troon, working with families together where possible. Initially often working with parents, guardians and carers to establish a cotherapy team ready for your child to enter the work together in the room. We use understandings about Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy as our central framework, but also incorporate other practices (such as non violent resistance) when helpful. Emily takes a very individual approach and we often adapt to meet neurodiversity. The playfulness and lightness of the PACE approach is central to our work together. Fun, connection and joyfulness forms the scaffolding to approach serious things that have given children nasty surprises in the past that linger in the present. Over time this helps us separate past from present and relax into connection with our family.

Emily also believes in the power of playfulness and creativity within the professional support relationship and brings this to supervision and training, often working in collaboration with creative professionals to create interactive theatre and film experiences around PACE, and more difficult topics such as child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Whilst involvement in family court processes is a stressful time for any family, Emily seeks to bring a balance of standardised assessment and years of clinical experience to the role of expert witness, so that family members feel heard and seen and the court is given a psychological landscape that contributes clarity to the overall picture when working towards the best interests of children. Emily's professional development is updated regularly with the leading organisations for family and forensic assessment in the UK, including Bond Solon, The Anna Freud Centre and the Tavistock and Portman Trust.