Episode #6 : Cathy O’Byrne Business: The Swallows Trail Summary: In today's episode Cathy talks to us about her journey from primary school teacher to play therapist, supporting individual children and now empowering parents in supporting their own children. She also describes how important it is to look after ourselves and how she does this for herself. Guest bio: Cathy O Byrne is an experienced and accredited Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Play Therapist, now specialising in Compassionate and Empowering Online Parent Support. She has worked as a primary school teacher, trainer, lecturer and psychotherapist in a number of settings. At the beginning of 2022, after almost 10 years in Private practice working therapeutically with children, teens and families, Cathy decided to pivot in her practice to try to find creative ways to make support available in more timely and accessible ways to parents who were concerned about their children's well-being and who were facing long waiting lists for services. Parent Support has always been a big passion of Cathy'. She has always found working with parents very energising and loves hearing about the positive benefits and impacts it is having on the families she works with. Cathy works from a person-centred perspective to resource and empower parents towards greater awareness, presence and confidence in their parenting. Cathy believes that parents are often unaware of their great potential to help and support their children at home when they are getting the right support for themselves. She supports parents of very young children right up to those who are parenting young adults with a wide variety of difficulties and issues She advocates very strongly for the power of the relationship when working with young people and their families. https://theswallowstrail.com/ | theswallowstrail@gmail.com | Interested in the club? Check out our website www.theclubwomensnetwork.com or contact us to join The Club! membership@thecubwomensnetwork.com