Systemic therapy

Today we are joined by a guest who sits at a truly unique intersection of clinical practice, academic research and senior NHS leadership.

Dr Mary Evans is a systemic therapist, social worker with a career spanning from child and adolescent mental health to neurodevelopmental services to her current role as a clinical director in the NHS.

But it is Mary's doctoral work that offers us the transformative way to think about neurodivergence.

By focusing on the diagnostic journeys of mothers of autistic girls, Mary has opened up a vital conversation about the aha moments that families experience and the systemic barriers they often hit immediately after.

If you think about, you know, your family's the one that's kicking off around the table at Pizza Express when there's this family next to you who in your mind is everybody sat nicely and eating and they're all chatting about their day.

It's an extra pressure on families.

So I think some of the work that we do need to do as systemic therapists and family therapists is help families find their own way and how they ought to be not how they think others think they should be or ought to be and it's it's yeah I think for me that's what autisms are.

Really lovely thank you Mary.