My working life has been in the field of therapeutic education, emotional and psychological wellbeing and mental health, and has been with both adults and young people. My original trainings were in education and therapeutic work with children and young people. For a considerable number of years I worked children and young people who experienced emotional and psychological difficulties, firstly in a day centre and then in a psychodynamically oriented residential therapeutic community for very troubled young people. In this latter setting I was involved in organisational development, staff management, training and supervision. Subsequent to my analytic training I was invited to become Consultant Psychotherapist to the staff group.