I wrote a review about the incredible memoir by Catherine Cho, exploring her experience of post-partum psychosis for the Times Literary Supplement (here).

I wrote a review about Sarah DiGregorio’s wonderful book about the science and experience of premature birth for the Times Literary Supplement (here).

As a psychotherapist who has spent many years talking to women struggling with their mental and physical health, this has inevitably included many conversations about the possible – and probable…

Many years ago, I worked with a client who was grieving the death of a mother she had been estranged from since childhood. After her parents divorced when she was…

I used to dread Mothering Sunday, and even now, as a mother of two boys at secondary school, I still brace myself. No-one, apart from an exceptional few, remember that…

I wrote about Clover Stroud’s latest book ‘My Wild and Sleepless Nights’ – a memoir of becoming a mother for the fifth time – here.