Senior Associate of the Royal College of Medicine and Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years' experience of working with children and families. Author of over twenty books in child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-five countries. 'What Every Parent Needs to Know' won First Prize in the British Medical Association Medical Book awards 2007  (Popular Medicine section) and was voted one of the top brain books of our time by The Dana Foundation. Co- Founding Director of the Higher Education College, The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (academic partner of Univeristy of East London) which runs Masters degree courses and Diplomas in Arts Psychotherapy, Adolescent Therapy, Child Counselling and Parent-Child Therapy. Founder of the 'Helping Where it Hurts’ programme which offers free arts therapy to troubled children in Islington Primary schools.