Tell us a bit about you, and, um, yeah, all your experience and stuff, and what you specialize in.

Yeah.

So yeah, so I started working with children and young people whilst I was doing my undergraduate, um, degree in psychology around sort of 13, 14 years ago now.

And I think I kind of went into psychology thinking I wanted to work sort of with adults, but I realized actually working with the children we could put lots of, um, different measures in place at a preventative level.

So that's what led me to do child and educational psychology.

Um, so I went on and completed my doctorate back in 2022 at Tavistock and Portman.

Um, and since then I've been working in a local authority, and I've been doing some private work, and I mainly, you know, work with sort of schools and parents to think about kind of, you know, what might, their child might be struggling with.

Yeah.

Yes, it is.

My truth is that you have to reinvent yourself more than once when you're trying to work around children.

I think I had assumed that you would start off freelancing, and that would just carry on until my children left.

But my life doesn't look the same as it did when my kids were six and three or 10 and seven.

Um, now they're 17 and 14.

We have quite a different life, and my work, um, fits in a different way.

So at the moment I make podcasts for people.

What sort of things when you say, like, you know, unmet needs?

Yeah, I think sometimes parents go into parenting having this sort of view.

That, you know, their child is going to be this certain way, do this certain thing and perhaps do the things that they didn't achieve in their childhood.

So you see a lot where, you know, parents are encouraging in a lovely way and it's great.

You want your kids to do well.

Of course you do.

You're a parent.

I don't want her to suffer like me.