I feel honoured to have been published in this issue of the Association of Family Therapy, Context magazine. In this article, I talk about Systemic Family Therapy practice and working with separated parents using the Parenting Apart Programme as a means to create change between parents and save children from the emotional harm generated by parental conflict. As family therapists, we work with families of all shapes and sizes to help people communicate and get on better together.

Through working with relationships we can help people move past their struggles and start to see and hear each other differently. When we relate to each other (and ourselves) differently we create enough space for change. Relational working is something I hold a deep passion for and seeing the changes people can make in this type of work keeps me returning to these ideas and philosophies.

Click on the link below to see the full article, which was published in Context, issue 177, October 2022, pp16-20. Thanks again to the Association of Family Therapy for providing a space for me to share some of my thoughts and ideas with the wider systemic family therapy community.

Working Systemically with Separating Parents: Ideas from the Parenting Apart Programme