Carly Kingswood  is a Attachment & Trauma Therapist, Consultant, Supervisor, Trainer, Author and DDP Practitioner. She lives and works in Southwest England. Since 2010 she has worked as a therapist with adopted and fostered children and their families, including kinship placements. She specialises in work on attachment and trauma. This work has included supporting and advising parents and carers in understanding the effects of trauma and attachment difficulties on their children, how to read the messages behind their children’s behaviour and help them find therapeutic, creative ways to respond. She is passionate about empowering parents and carers to connect with their children and regulate their emotional pain through the relationship they have with them. Carly also provides Therapeutic Life Story Work and trains other therapists in the model she uses.

Carly was a foster carer for 10 years. She works as a consultant and trainer for an Ofsted Outstanding registered children’s residential provider. She provides supervision, group supervision and training for each home and member of staff. She is a member of Coram BAAF and a member of BACP.