Much of the content of this blog post is taken from an article I had published in "Therapy Today," in December 2022. 

With Enid Blyton’s...

I hear this often.  Sometimes clients come with trepidation, aware that Boarding School was very traumatic for them. Others come saying,...

In 2019, 4 former teachers and the chaplain from the boarding school I went to were jailed for sexual abuse. I could name you several others, who...

This is a question I have been asked often.

Unfortunately, most people I work with who are exploring the impact of their boarding school upbringing...

A 16-year-old boy was charged with two accounts of attempted murder in a boarding school in Devon.  He wishes to remain anonymous, but with...

John Bowlby's Attachment Theory explains the impact that early childhood relationships and experiences have on our development. He attains that...

This September I made the long drive from Brighton to Edinburgh to take my eldest daughter to University for the first time. We could have taken...

Present-day Boarding School websites proudly tell parents that their timetable of constant activities, especially in the first few weeks of term,...

Joy Schaverien has noted that that the definition of children in care seems to fit the child in boarding school. (Boarding School Syndrome, 2015)

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When I first did my counselling training and we were exploring Human Growth and Development, I recall the Tutor asking us, "What age did you leave...

It was the Brighton Marathon. The sun shone and the city came alive as residents came out to support and cheer on the runners. As a young child, I...

To cope with the huge attachment loss that a child is subjected to at an early age when they are sent to boarding school, many children learn to...