| AFT in the Media |
September 2025On 9 September Karen Carberry was interviewed by MTM TV Jamaica regarding her career and work in family and systemic psychotherapy. In addition, she answered questions on the topic of her presentation for the 17th Suicide Prevention Conference in Kingston, Jamaica, entitled 'Mental Illness a Risk Factor in Suicidality: Understanding Depression, Bipolar Disorder and PTSD Role in Suicidality'. The conference was attended by 150 people and over 1000 people online across the world, including South Africa, Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, The Congo, Belize, South America, the Caribbean, the US, UK and Europe. May 2025Hannah Sherbersky was interviewed for a Guardian article by Deborah Linton: Six conversations that will unlock your relationships, from first date to old friends February 2025Hannah Sherbersky contributed to an article for BBC News: South Wales anorexia patient had to go to Glasgow for treatment - BBC News. January 2025Parveen Kaur was on Sky PBC (Punjabi Broadcast Channel) raising awareness of 'The damaging effect of the search for the perfect beautiful body' in south Asian communities. April 2024Karen Carberry had the pleasure of attending the 3rd session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent at the United Nations in Geneva from 16-19 April, in which she was able to submit recommendations for decolonising therapeutic courses to enable cultural equity in the teaching of psychology and psychotherapy; Karen also made recommendations to address inequity in the treatment of eating disorders in the African-decended community. Finally, Karen was able to speak on 19 April on recommending the wider implementation of the published model of working transgeneratially with Haitian families which is included in the International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health. Karen's presentation takes place at 2 hrs 26 minutes after the presentation about Haiti (02:26:23). View here. March 2024Sarah Helps contributed to the 'Ask Annalisa Barbieri' article (the Guardian, 1st March), 'My sister-in-law has treated her family terribly. I avoid her but still feel bad about it' February 2024Chana Hughes presented a TEDx Talk – Zooming out: the next mental health revolution. She reveals the transformative power of ‘zooming out’ which, if done effectively, can lead to a healthier outlook on life, more expansive thinking and may offer an antidote to loneliness. Here is a recording of 4th February's 1 Show Live on PBC SKY775 where Parveen Kaur took part in a discussion about the importance and sensitive topic of domestic abuse in Punjabi communities. With a great panel of experts they considered the nature, causes, impacts and solutions to domestic abuse both in relation to women and men. The show is a mix of Punjabi and English. Please watch and share. January 2024Parveen Kaur was invited to appear on the Punjab TV channel (Sky 755) and spoke on the topic of children’s mental health in the Punjabi community. You can view the Panjab Broadcasting Channel ‘Child Mental Health and the Punjabi Community: The 1 Show live’ broadcast here: Youtube link October 2023Hannah Sherbersky took part in a podcast: Managing the In-Laws with psychotherapist Hannah Sherbersky – Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri | Acast (Season 6, Ep. 4, Friday, October 20, 2023) Michael Henry participated in a documentary, White Nanny Black Child, broadcast 5 October on Channel 5, where he led a group of Nigerian adults who were privately fostered in their childhood through the 'Tree of Life' narrative model to process and re-author their stories to a path of healing. You can watch it here. August 2023Hannah Sherbersky contributed to an article by Annalisa Barbieri in The Guardian on 11th August: My wife finds her mother’s rightwing rants hurtful. Should we cut her off? July 2023Ged Smith has an article appearing in Family Process, available as 'early view': A 1.5-Order Therapy: Between knowing and not knowing. February 2023Hannah Sherbersky contributed to an article by Annalisa Barbieri in The Guardian on 10th February: My adult daughters are angry with me for leaving the country. What can I do? October 2022Kate Daniels contribited to an article by Olga Smirnova & Lucy Manning on the BBC website: New crisis looms for Ukrainians in the UK. Almost 30,000 Ukrainian refugees have been in the UK for almost six months, analysis by BBC News shows. It means nearly a third of the total arrivals under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are facing the end of their initial hosting arrangements. So what happens to them now? September 2022Ged Smith contributed to an article by Emma Beddington in The Guardian, 15 September: It struck me like a thunderbolt’: how to survive empty-nest syndrome – and come out smiling July 2022Kate Daniels was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' Friday 15 July about the project to equip host families with the emotional skills necessary to make the transition as easy as possible for the people displaced by war. Listen here. February 2022Ragni Whitlock is cited in this article for The Telegraph by Jenny Tucker: Britain's 'sandwich' generation are burning out: How to cope when ageing parents and children need you most January 2022Hugh Palmer was interviewed for i-news in an article by Sally Guyoncourt (Downing Street party: Son who only saw mother through window in months before she died slams ‘rank hypocrisy’) after tweeting about some writing by him and his mother on the Pandemic as System Flux website (May 2020): Through a glass, darkly: Reflections on a pandemic November 2021Reenee Singh contributed to an article by Annalisa Barbieri in The Guardian, 26 November: Do I need to leave my partner for the sake of my fragile son? August 2021Ged Smith was featured in The Guardian in this article by Annalisa Barbieri: Help! My parents won’t accept my move to my wife’s home country March 2021Ged Smith and Reenee Singh appeared in the Channel 4 programme 'Strangers Making Babies' and were listed in the credits as consultants. January 2021
11 January 2021: Joanne Hipplewith offered advice in a Good Housekeeping magazine article by Megan Sutton, 'Experts share their advice on coping with the stresses of home schooling'. December 202023 December 2020: Reenee Singh was quoted in a BBC News website article by Anisa Subedar, 'Covid my excuse for not seeing relatives at Christmas' November 2020Nicola McCarry provided thoughtful systemic advice in a piece by Annalisa Barbieri for The Guardian, 'My father-in-law criticises my parenting. How do I deal with that?' which is available to read here. Joanne Hipplewith was was contacted by UKCP and interviewed for a report by Nick Smith, for ITV News broadcast on 10 November 2020: 'West Country sees rise in virtual childcare since coronavirus lockdown'. October 2020Joanne Hipplewith was interviewed for a Good Housekeeping magazine article by Megan Sutton, which you can read here: Experts explain how to deal with feelings of loneliness this winter: Worried about being apart from loved ones at Christmas? Therapists and a GP give their perspective…, (15 October 2020). This included a link to the AFT website. September 2020Hendrix Hammond has contributed to a Metro online article by Faima Bakar on racism: How to call out racism without destroying your relationships. (28 September 2020). Hendrix says: "It’s a very simple guide about having conversation about racism and not very technical. I hope members will find it helpful!" July 2020Joanne Hipplewith was a panellist on BBC Four’s 'Woman’s Hour', discussing ‘How to end a relationship’ on 31 July. The podcast is available here. June 2020Reenee Singh was consulted as part of an article by Annalisa Barbieri in The Guardian on 19 June: 'I can't stand my in-laws. Why do I feel such rage towards them?' Reenee was again featured providing advice for an article by Claire Gilbody-Dickersonon BBC News on 23 June: 'Mum died and we were left to fend for ourselves' April 2020
Reenee Singh was featured in an article in The Guardian by Mattha Busby on 11 April, 'I gulp back feelings of regret’: how I found my long-lost sibling' about the estrangement of siblings. February 2020Lorraine Davies-Smith was part of a panel discussing family and lifestyle at the 'Roberto Perrone Show'. January 2020Reenee Singh spoke to the Huffington Post about interracial-intercultural couples' experiences in light of the decision of Harry and Megan to leave the UK. Please follow this link for the article December 2020Reenee Singh spoke to Kathy Weston in a podcast, where they discussed supporting children through parent separation. You can listen to the podcast here October 2019Hendrix Hammond on BBC Radio 5 Live: Hendrix Hammond, from the Institute of Family Therapy, was interviewed on the Nihal Arthanayake show on BBC Radio 5 Live on 23 October. AFT received a mention in the Huffington Post. There is also a mention of AFT in the Crawley Observer here September 2019Reenee Singh contributed to an article about ‘Nervous Breakdowns’ that was picked up by Yahoo and Netdoctor.
July 2019
Hannah Sherbersky has provided a comment on a piece on ‘Family Division’ in the summer issue of the New Psychotherapist. Reenee contributed to a piece in Psychologies magazine titled ‘Dealing with Uncertainty’ and this article can be accessed here. June 2019I Blame my Parents: You can now view the programme ‘I Blame my Parents’ on the digital-resources page. Sherbersky, H. (2019) ‘I Blame my Parents’. BBC 3 Documentary. |