Why "Yellow Tractor"?
As a child I would spend hours on my yellow tractor going on the most wonderful imaginative journeys. Being a second generation migrant, I often wondered where I fitted in as a I navigated my way through the different cultures. It was on my yellow tractor I could imagine what the future held. Now, as an adult looking back, I am filled with warmth and fond memories as I realise it was a place where I was able to think, ground myself and reconnect with reality - my safe haven.
At Yellow Tractor Therapy I hope to create a safe haven for you - where you can explore, reconnect and move forward as a family.
Southgate, bounds green, wood green, winchmore hill, palmers green, enfield, cockfosters, barnet, totterridge, finchley
About Me
My name is Tricia and I am a child and family psychodynamic psychotherapist with over 30 years experience working with parents and children.
I started my journey 30 years ago as a nursery nurse. It was as a nursery nurse my fascination with childhood development started and subsequently led me to train as a social worker. I worked as a children & family social worker in various London boroughs specialising in parenting assessments. My passion for an even deeper understanding pushed me to a career in Child and Family Psychotherapy. I worked in a London CAMHS team for 11 years from 2010.
I provide specialist interventions for parents around a range of difficulties including: sleep, feeding, anger and behavioural, attachment difficulties, separation anxiety, bereavement and loss. I undertake short and long-term psychotherapy, parenting guidance, communication work and assessments. I further provide consultations to professional organisations such as schools, social services and GPs.
I have an in-depth understanding of social care and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Throughout my career, I have gained a reputation for my ability to connect with people from all backgrounds. I have a distinctive warm and approachable style, together with a bright sense of fun that puts children and families at ease. I provide a calm and emphatic space, am non-directive and follow cues from children of all ages.
Southgate, bounds green, wood green, winchmore hill, palmers green, enfield, cockfosters, barnet, totterridge, finchley
My Credentials
Experience You Can Count On
Nursery Officer
My journey began with seven years working in a nursery, where I discovered something that has never left me — that the relationship between a parent and their child is the most important thing in a child's life. Working alongside families every day, I began to understand how much parents want to get it right, and how much it matters to feel supported rather than judged. The nursery's ethos was simple: every child and every parent deserves to feel valued. That belief has stayed with me through everything I have done since.
Social Worker
For many years as a social worker, I worked with families at some of the hardest points in their lives — families who were struggling, frightened, and who often felt that no one was truly on their side. I sat with parents who were doing their best under impossible circumstances, and I saw first-hand how much courage it takes to ask for help, and how much difference the right support can make.
That experience taught me more than any training could. It gave me a deep and honest understanding of how complicated parenting really is — how our own histories, our fears, our relationships and our circumstances all shape the parents we become. And it gave me an unshakeable belief that, with the right support, things can be different. It is that belief that inspired me to train as a therapist, and it sits at the heart of everything I do today.
CAMHS Therapist
For 11 years I worked in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, first as a clinical social worker and later as a child and family psychotherapist. During that time I worked with children, young people and their families at some of the most difficult and worrying moments of their lives. I know how frightening it can be to feel that your child is struggling and not know how to help. I also know that reaching out — to a school, a GP, a service like this — takes real courage. My role was always to make that experience as human and as helpful as possible, and to work alongside families rather than simply at them.
Academic Qualifications
BSc Social Work
2003 - Buckinghamshire University
MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development
2008 - Birkbeck University
MA Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working with Children, Young People & Families.
2019 - Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Distinction
Further Training
In addition to my core qualifications, I undertake ongoing specialist training to deepen my clinical practice. Recent training includes:
Mellow Parenting Training (May 2007) — an evidence-based group work programme supporting parents to understand the impact of their own experiences on their parenting and strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Improving Effectiveness and Understanding the Evidence Base: Working with the Impact of Parental Conflict on Children and Young People's Mental Health, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (June 2013)
Increasing the Awareness of the Couple/Parental Relationship and its Impact on Children, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (March 2014)
Developing Skills in Couple Work Summer School, Tavistock Relationships (July 2022) — a four-day intensive in psychoanalytic couple work.
Couples and Parenting, TR Together, Tavistock Relationships (November 2024) — specialist training exploring the couple relationship in the context of parenthood.
Healing Days with Gabor Maté (October 2025) — exploring trauma, compassionate inquiry and its relevance to therapeutic work with families
