About Me
​I am a qualified Social Worker and Psychosocial Therapist with over 20 years’ specialist experience in mental health, child safeguarding, domestic abuse, specifically coercive control.
I bring together professional expertise and lived understanding to support individuals facing complex, high-conflict family situations.
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Its My family currently provides consultancy services to Origami Ltd, delivering specialist family support and psychosocial interventions.
Through this work, I support executive organisations, including accountancy firms, by offering tailored, family-focused support to individuals navigating separation, child arrangement negotiations, and the transition into parenthood.
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Alongside this, 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.​​
Sabina Challenger
Safeguarding and Communication Specialist
Hello, I'm Sabina, founder of It's My Family
Why I Do This Work
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My work is both personal and professional.
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After becoming a mother in 2019, I experienced first-hand the challenges of communicating safeguarding concerns within the family justice system during family mediation. Despite my professional background in safeguarding, I found that concerns could be difficult to convey and were sometimes viewed in isolation rather than within the wider context of family dynamics.
Like many protective parents, I experienced the emotional toll of managing difficult communication and the uncertainty of whether concerns were being fully understood or appropriately considered.
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This experience reinforced for me how complex it can be to evidence and communicate emotional harm and its impact on children. It also highlighted how overwhelming these processes can feel for parents without specialist safeguarding knowledge, inspiring me to support others in navigating them with greater confidence, clarity, and structure.
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What became clear was this: emotional and psychological abuse, particularly coercive control and its impact on children, is incredibly difficult to evidence and communicate, especially within systems that are often focused on reaching agreement based on the presumption of a child having the right to contact with both parents, rather than prioritising risk.
​​​​My Professional Background
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I am a qualified social worker with over two decades of experience across mental health services, safeguarding, and domestic abuse practice.
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Mental Health and Child and Adult Safeguarding Social Worker, Accredited by Social Work England. McKenzie friend trained - Training credited by the Practice Accreditation Network.
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Qualifications
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BA (Hons) Social Work
Diploma in CBT and CFT Principles
Undergraduate Certificate in Mental Health, Psychiatric Liaison, and Crisis Intervention
Postgraduate Certificate in Approved Mental Health Practice
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