Joanne Jackson has over 25 years’ experience of working with children and families. She holds the Diploma in Social Work and a Certificate in Higher Education from Greenwich University and a Practice Teachers Award from Christ Church University. She has worked in a statutory capacity as a Social Worker in child protection for 10 years with various Local Authorities. She has worked within Child and Adolescent Services since 2000, predominantly undertaking intensive parenting assessments and treatments of children and their families, preparing reports for the courts and appearing as an expert witness. Much of her court work has included assessing children’s emotional, behavioural, social functioning, parental capacity for change, and relationships of families where there have been extreme discord and inadequate parenting that have impacted upon child development.

Joanne is currently employed as a Family Therapist/Social Worker, at the Anna Freud Centre where she works in the Specialist Trauma And Maltreatment Service (STAMS). A branch to her work includes working with families with very serious and complex parental conflict and alienation, including contact disputes. She has been teaching in the field of family therapy since 2006 and currently is an academic tutor at The Prudence Skynner Couple & Family Clinic delivering teaching on their systemic family therapy course and at Institute of Family Therapy teaching on their agency-based courses.