Hi everyone, lovely to be here, I am so grateful for the opportunity to become part of Mother-Daughter Coaching International and looking forward to being your UK and Ireland Coordinator and hoping to make new connections at home and abroad. I am an Integrated Counsellor, Mediator and Certified Mother-Daughter Coach.

My interest in learning more about the mother-daughter relationship grew out of my time spent working with young people across the Northern Ireland school counselling service and providing counselling at home to older adults. Even though both groups of clients were at the opposite ends of the age spectrum, I was seeing similarities and common themes of conflict, emotional stress, separation, and unresolved grief and loss between mothers and daughters.

I found myself becoming curious and wanting to learn more about the specific dynamics that often play out within the mother-daughter relationship and started to pay more attention to how this relationship is often portrayed within society. While looking into further training on mother-daughter attachment, I came across Rosjke, having the opportunity to listen to her experience of working with mothers and daughters and talk about the mother-daughter attachment model, was enough for me to know that I had found what was missing from my work with women and girls.

I then went on to train and become a Certified Mother-Daughter Coach myself. The training has enriched my practice and how I work with clients and given me the opportunity to work with mothers and daughters of all ages at home and internationally.

Being the only girl in my family with two brothers, I have been fortunate to have had a good relationship with my mum, she never allowed for any differences to be made between us as siblings based on gender, but I know that’s not always the case.

I am acutely aware of the wider family, societal and generational expectations that are often placed on women and girls. I can see from my own country’s history how religion has influenced the status of women in families and the mother’s role and the devastation caused by women being forced into mother-baby homes, separated from their children, given no choice and no voice. The emotional impact on women during the “Troubles” also brought about its own generational trauma, and I am inspired everyday by the women and girls that I work with who have found their voice, chosen their own path, and are working towards generational change. www.cathygreencounselling.com