The resources, learning opportunities and support information shared here reflect the themes that sit at the heart of my work with children, young people, families, practitioners, schools, services and organisations.
Although the situations people bring are often very different, many involve similar questions. How do we make sense of what is happening? What might help us gain a fuller understanding of a child, young person, family or situation? What strengths, relationships and resources already exist? What support may be helpful, both now and in the longer term?
My work is grounded in the belief that meaningful support begins with understanding. Before deciding what needs to change, it is often helpful to develop a richer picture of the experiences, relationships, environments and systems that shape people’s lives. Understanding provides a foundation for informed decision-making, meaningful support and sustainable change.
Much of my work sits at the intersection of children, young people, families, practitioners, schools, services and wider systems, bringing together different perspectives to make sense of complexity and identify meaningful ways forward.
This page brings together information about the different ways we can work together, opportunities for learning and development, resources I use in practice and a curated collection of guides exploring many of the ideas and approaches that underpin my work.
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The guides below provide an overview of the different ways we can work together and are designed to help you decide whether my approach feels like the right fit for your needs.
Whether you are seeking support for yourself, your family, your professional practice or your organisation, this guide offers an introduction to the Creating Calm approach.
It explains the different ways we can work together, the thinking that underpins my practice, and how a range of therapeutic, creative and reflective approaches can be tailored to your unique circumstances.
This guide introduces Single Session Therapy and explains how it works.
It outlines who it may be helpful for, what happens during a session and how one focused conversation can sometimes provide enough time and space to think more clearly about what matters most.
This guide explains what a clinical assessment at Creating Calm involves and what you can expect.
It outlines the range of assessment approaches available and how these are tailored to your child’s individual strengths, needs and circumstances.
This guide explains what Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) is, how it works and what you can expect.
It explores how therapeutic play can strengthen relationships, deepen understanding and support parents and carers to build confidence in responding to their child’s individual needs.
This guide outlines the different ways I work with children, young people, parents and carers, including therapeutic support, assessment, reviews, parenting support and opportunities to develop understanding and identify meaningful next steps.
This guide provides information about reflective practice, supervision, assessment support, training and professional development opportunities for practitioners working with children, young people and families.
This guide outlines the ways I work alongside schools, services and organisations, including training, reflective spaces, assessment support, organisational development and commissioned work designed around the needs of children, young people, families and communities.
Alongside direct support, I offer a range of courses, workshops, webinars and learning opportunities for parents, carers, practitioners, schools, services and organisations.
These learning opportunities are designed to encourage reflection, deepen understanding and support people to think differently about the children, young people, families and communities they work alongside.
New courses and learning opportunities are added throughout the year.
Strengthening Creative Practice is a Wayfinding® professional learning series for therapists, counsellors and other helping professionals who are curious about the thoughtful use of creativity within therapeutic work.
Through six experiential learning sessions, we’ll explore creativity as another way of noticing, reflecting and developing understanding, considering how different creative approaches can enrich therapeutic relationships, strengthen reflective practice and support professional judgement.
Each session can be attended individually or as part of the wider Wayfinding® learning journey. If you’d like to find out and download the Strengthening Creative Practice Programme Guide, click the link below.
The guides below provide an introduction to many of the ideas and approaches that underpin my work. Whilst written with different audiences in mind, many are relevant across home, education, health and community settings.
A Whole Person Perspective
Exploring how relationships, experiences, strengths, needs and environments shape wellbeing, development and support.
Understanding What Behaviour May Be Communicating
Considering behaviour within the wider context of relationships, experiences, emotions and unmet needs.
Understanding Through Assessment
Exploring how assessment can contribute to understanding, planning and support.
This guide introduces Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) for professionals, outlining the principles of the approach and its application across education, health, social care and community services.
This guide introduces Wayfinding®, a professional learning methodology that supports schools, services and organisations to develop thinking, strengthen practice and build organisational capability.
This guide introduces Strengthening Creative Practice, a Wayfinding® professional learning series exploring creativity as another way of deepening therapeutic understanding.
People often ask which books I recommend, what resources I use in my work and where particular tools, materials and activities can be found.
This collection brings together many of the books, tools and resources that I genuinely use, value and regularly recommend.
The resources shared here are not random recommendations or products selected because they are popular.
If you cannot find it in my therapy space, on my bookshelf, in my training materials or being used in my day-to-day work, it is unlikely to appear in my recommended resources collection.
These are books I have read, resources I have used, tools I return to regularly and materials I genuinely value.
Some links within the collection are affiliate links, including links to my Amazon Storefront. If you choose to purchase through these links, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.
This does not influence my recommendations. I only recommend resources that I know, use, trust or believe may be genuinely helpful. Any commission received helps support the ongoing development of free guides, resources, learning opportunities and content.
Many people arrive feeling uncertain about what is happening, what support may be helpful or where to begin.
If you would like to talk through a situation, ask a question or explore whether working together may be helpful, I would be delighted to hear from you.
