Rowan Baker

About

People generally contact me at the point where they have exhausted their friends. The first few weeks are absorbed by whoever is closest, and then it becomes apparent that those conversations are going in circles and that everybody involved has an opinion. An affair generates an enormous amount of advice and very little useful thinking. Friends are partisan by design, which is what makes them good friends and poor counsel in this specific situation. What I offer instead is someone with no stake whatsoever in your outcome and a clear sense of how these situations actually unfold over time. I supervise newer clinicians alongside my own work, and the error I most often correct is the urge to reassure too early. Premature reassurance closes down the very conversation that needs to happen. I will not do that to you. If your friends have run out of road, get in touch.