Pauline Gerrard knows exactly what it feels like to be helpless in the face of professionals who insist there is nothing wrong with a clearly unhappy child. Her own daughter suffered stress and anxiety as she tried to respond to a teacher's sharp advice to 'pull her socks up'.
Pauline finally found help in new techniques used by the Institute for Neurophysiological Psychology. This experience of a treatment which restored her distressed daughter's naturally bubbly personality led her to retrain to offer the same sort of help to others.
Based in Aberdeen, Pauline's abilities are so valued that parents travel hundreds of miles from throughout the Highlands and Islands so their children can benefit. She says she is only too aware of the efforts parents will make to find the right help for their children, having personally experienced similar frustration herself over the course of four years'
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