Jill has worked therapeutically with children, young people and families for over eight years in a variety of NHS settings and the charitable sector. Clinically trained in CAMHS, Jill is experienced in supporting children work through a wide range of complex difficulties including depression, anxiety, gender dysphoria, eating disorders, separation anxiety, self-harm and complex trauma. Jill is trained to offer long-term, time-limited and brief therapeutic interventions to children and young people aged 0-25. She works with each child’s developmental needs in an attachment-focussed, trauma-informed way, holding in mind the unique history and heritage each brings. She is experienced in working with children and young people who experience the world in neurologically diverse ways. Alongside individual psychotherapy to children and adolescents, Jill offers parents and carers support in developing further their relationship with their child.

Jill also offers Parent-Infant Psychotherapy to families. Parent-Infant Psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach for parents and babies (up to around 24 months). It focuses on strengthening the parent-infant relationship by offering a warm, inviting space for baby and parents to explore being with each other and to express themselves. Jill draws from psychoanalytic thinking, attachment theory and neuroscience to improve emotional regulation, enhance sensitive caregiving and to enable parents and infants to deepen their bond.

Jill is also a Circle of Security Parenting (COSP) programme facilitator. This is an evidence-based, attachment-focussed 8-week reflective programme for caregivers of children aged 4 months to 6 years. It offers a visual map to help parents understand and respond to their children’s emotional needs. This can be offered individually, as a parent-couple and in small groups. Jill’s understanding of early infancy and parenthood enriches her therapeutic understanding both of children’s emotional experience and of family relationships.

Jill began her professional life as a lecturer in Modern Languages. Her doctoral thesis focuses on concepts of Self-Other relations in twentieth-century French literature and philosophy. Her postdoctoral research investigated the relationship between complex trauma and writing in Holocaust and genocide survivor testimonies. She went on to train and work as a secondary teacher: a time which deepened her understanding of the profound emotional struggles adolescents face and developed in her a life-changing desire to work therapeutically with children.

Alongside her independent practice at The Anchor Practice, Jill works in a Specialist NHS Perinatal Mental Health Service with women experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the post-natal period. In this context, Jill offers a variety of therapeutic interventions to parents, infants and families. Jill also offers supervision to colleagues and provides training on infant mental health.

Jill's specialist Modalities of Therapy:

Child Psychotherapy

Parent–Infant Psychotherapy