Step Up: Step-parenting and the art of creating a healthy, happy, blended family
By (Author) Katherine Walker
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Home
27th May 2025
27th February 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Family psychology
Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues
Paperback
304
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
In this new book for couples forming blended family units, practising psychotherapist and coach Katherine Walker explores all the issues that couples face when combining their families. From how to maintain the couple's own loving relationship, to handling teenage tantrums, this is an easy-to-follow guide that answers every key question, and offers practical solutions.
Forming a blended family is a complex process. Each person in the unit arrives with their own expectations and understanding of the situation, and encompassing everyone's needs is not easy. Katherine offers advice on setting goals and values for the new family unit, techniques for handling conflict, and optimistic, experienced advice at every turn. Covering the main milestones from introductions to moving in together and beyond, and providing helpful tips and exercises at every stage, this book is a vital, inclusive guide to forming a blended family as consciously and cohesively as possible.Reading this book is like experiencing a personal coaching session with Katherine. Her wisdom is personal, practical and profound; grounded in the theory but delivered in a straightforward way - Damian Hughes, Sunday Times best-selling author and co-host of The High Performance Podcast
Katherine Walker is a psychotherapist, couples' therapist and blended family coach in her professional life, and both a step-child and step-parent in her personal life. With extensive experience of blended families, she is uniquely qualified to write this ground-breaking book.