Clinician. Trainer. Researcher. Parent

I'm Zara also known online and in the sector as "The Family Minded Psychotherapist". I'm also a parent — and what some would call a medical mum — which means I know exactly what it feels like to sit in the corridor while someone else holds your child.

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That dual experience isn't incidental to this work. It's the foundation of it.

I've been the professional in the room and the parent outside it. I've navigated systems that weren't designed for my family while simultaneously working within those same systems for other people's families. I understand the exhaustion, the guilt, the loneliness, and the particular kind of invisible weight that comes with caring for a child whose needs are complex — not as a clinical observation, but from the inside.

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Alongside my clinical practice I founded The Children's Psychology Hub — a library of clinician-designed resources and training built around one belief: psychological knowledge is too important to stay behind a clinic door.

Everything I build is designed to travel. From the clinic to the kitchen table. From the session to the school. From the therapy room to the barber's chair, the sports hall, the holiday park, the community hall.