Pam is a formally qualified social worker who spent many years working with familial violence both in the statutory services and voluntary organisations over a period of 40yrs. She also helped develop the first child to parent abuse programme in the UK.

Pam is now a consultant and trainer on attachment and trauma and works primarily with fostering and adoption carers and those social work teams helping to understand how attachment and trauma can impact children and the family they live with, that can lead to violence and abuse in the home.