Claire Windmill

Are you one pointless appointment away from screaming? Do you think about just walking away from your life because you don't think you can hold things together any longer? If your brain is so full you can't even think anymore, you are in the right place.

I work with families being held together by mums just like you. In fact, I've been one too.

If it feels like you are going in circles with school, with referrals, with professionals who only care about their piece of the picture, you aren't going mad. That's what's happening.

The system is genuinely built like that. It's designed to make you go away. I know this because I've worked in almost every part of it. Schools, social work, CAMHS, adoption support, early years teaching. Every one of those systems is broken.

Health, education and social care are all failing families in the same way. And they get away with it because mums are invisibly doing all the work. They are figuring it out for themselves and plugging the gaps.

Are you angry? I am. I am furious about how children and families get treated. About how women are ignored. About how hard it is to access good support.

But that's not what you'll get when we talk. The anger is mine, kept for the system. What you get is calm steadiness, the kind that lets you finally put something down.

I shouldn't have to do this work. It shouldn't be necessary. But for some of my clients, everything else has already failed.

What I do isn't rocket science. But it can feel revolutionary. When I meet with my clients, I listen. I give time and space for the whole story. Together we're able to see the whole picture. Everyone's needs are included. All of the pressures. All of the challenges. And all of the strengths.

Between us, we take the anger, the frustration, the overwhelm, the exhaustion, and turn it into something useful.

They come to me at the end of their tether, and leave feeling heard, understood, with a clear plan of what to do next.