Communication Specialist for Protective Parents

 

I support protective parents navigating child arrangements with abusive or coercive co-parents.

With over 20 years’ specialist experience in mental health, child safeguarding, domestic abuse, and coercive control, I bring both professional expertise and lived understanding to this work.

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Through Origami Ltd, I deliver family-focused psychosocial therapy interventions to executive partners within accountancy firms. I specialise in supporting individuals with separation, child arrangement negotiations, and adjustment to parenthood.

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I also provide dedicated support to mothers in the perinatal period who are navigating child protection processes, safeguarding assessments, and family court scrutiny during an already vulnerable time.

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Why I Do This Work

My work is deeply personal as well as professional.

After becoming a mother in 2020, I found myself navigating co-parenting in the shadow of emotional abuse. My safeguarding concerns were minimised. Incidents were treated as isolated events. The wider pattern was not recognised.

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Like many protective parents, I experienced the exhaustion of covert bullying, destabilising communication, and the constant fear that harm would only be acknowledged once it became undeniable.

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What became painfully clear was this: Emotional and psychological abuse, specifically coercive control, is incredibly difficult to communicate — especially to systems focused on reaching agreements rather than fully understanding risk.

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That experience shaped the focus of my work today.