Co-Parenting Matters Ltd (CPM) is very much the brain child and product of founder Trish Barry-Relph. It embodies her core philosophy, values and belief in the importance of co-parenting as the bedrock of a nurturing childhood and that this is arguably more important if/when parents have to part.
CPM offers a standalone bespoke therapeutic service to parents and children affected by strained child: parent relationships, where there are no justified reasons for “resist/refuse” dynamics which prevent a child from enjoying a meaningful relationship with both parents.
Unlike many practitioner firms, Trish is the lead for every aspect of the work of CPM. Trish adopts an interdisciplinary collaborative approach when working alongside other professionals from different disciplines. Where appropriate, she works in partnership with a collegiate, select group of talented, very experienced interdisciplinary professionals who also favour her shared, gender-neutral, culturally sensitive, child-focused ethos when and where necessary.
Trish and her network span a wide range of skills and experience covering the separated family consultancy field. Disciplines include: consultant on Family Law Courts, family law and procedure, researchers, professional ethics and jurisprudence medicine; consultant child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology; specialist systemic family therapy; psychodynamic psychotherapy; counselling; play therapy; PACE therapeutic parenting therapists, resist/refuse dynamic specialists; Guardian-Ad-Litum; independent social work ISW parenting assessments, section 7 assessments and welfare reports; expert witness work; contact supervisors; family law consultancy; parenting co-ordinators; family mediators; McKenzie Friend’s and mentoring and coaching specialists.
- Attachment, Trauma, Family Systems Narrative Therapy 2023
- Hearing the Voices of Formally Alienated Children, Palace of Westminster, Baroness Meyer 2023
- Working Collaboratively to Provide Better Outcomes for Children 2023
We look forward to helping you.
Trish Barry-Relph
Founder Co-Parenting Matters Ltd, Child and Family Consultant
“Trish is a senior professional of exceptional talent and long experience and has worked as a social worker/psychotherapist in the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic which is part of our extensive CAMHS for North London and Home Counties commissioners. She is a sensitive and thoughtful clinician who can sustain long term contacts with sometimes demanding patients to good clinical effect.
Trish has a wide range of experience in managing organisations, developing systems and
services (including budgets), and assessing complex service environments. She combines these capacities with a strong continuing commitment to her own clinical and therapeutic development, and her practice as a social worker and therapist.She is especially good at producing assessments of service needs based on negotiation and discussion with staff, while also attending to policy imperatives and resource constraints.
Study of contemporary ‘policy processes’ has been part of the curriculum she has followed on
Andrew Cooper, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Professor of Clinical Social Work.
the Masters/Professional Doctorate in Clinical Social Work, and she displayed creativity, flair and
realism in her thinking. She also has a commitment to multi-disciplinary working and a good
understanding of the potential for tension as well as creativity in multi-professional organisations”
