This work is personal — and professional.

I’m Emma — a counsellor, a mum, and the founder of DYF Parents.

💛 WHY I DO THIS

There was a time I thought I should already know how to be calm, connected, and present — no matter what my child was doing.


But the truth is, I was overwhelmed. I loved my child fiercely… and I still struggled.

Like so many mums, I carried the weight of everything — the emotional load, the invisible expectations, the guilt.


I started learning how to lead with presence, not pressure. How to stay calm without performing calm.


And eventually, how to teach it to others.

🎓 MY PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

I’m a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor with over a decade of experience supporting mothers, families, and individuals navigating emotional overload, identity shifts, and intergenerational pain.


My work is rooted in trauma-informed practice, emotional regulation, nervous system science, and deep compassion.

I bring everything I’ve learned — as a professional and as a mum — into the tools and courses I share through DYF Parents.

🏛️ OUR CIC WORK AND ONLINE BRANCH

In 2019, I co-founded Dream Your Future Families CIC to provide low-cost and accessible support to families in my local area.


From drop-in groups to emotional wellbeing workshops, our mission was always the same: to honour parents as people and create spaces where they feel safe and seen.

As the needs grew — and funding became less reliable — we expanded online. DYF Parents is the natural evolution of this work:
a sustainable, scalable way to offer high-integrity emotional tools to more mums, without losing the heart of what we started.

Dream Your Future Families 2025

DYF Parents is a trading name of Dream Your Future Families CIC, a registered Community Interest Company (No. 11882255)