Alan Cooklin has worked as a family therapist, and adult, and child and adolescent psychiatrist for over 50years.  Within the NHS He developed the ‘Marlborough Family Service’ and later the multi-family Kidstime Workshops for the children of parents with mental illness and their families, In 2012 he  established the charity The Kidstime Foundation, (now Our Time). He was co- founder and first Director of the Institute of Family Therapy, London.