Dr Nina Jones and Jonathan Ruchpaul are in the final stages of incorporating the Bristol Family Therapy Collective, a community interest company that will facilitate the delivery of family therapy on a pro bono basis so that families (or the couples or individuals involved within it) who would struggle to find the resources to benefit from family therapy will be able to be funded, or partly funded by fee-paying clients who are in a position to contribute.

To get an idea of what family therapy might address, just think of the complexities that go to make a family (of whatever shape or form), and of all the relationships and individuals involved in it. Then think of all the circumstances that life will inevitably impose upon those individuals and their relationships, and the breadth of the subject becomes more clear. Families change and develop and, of course, just one cause can have many effects within them so finding a way to identify and address these may need expert help.

Community Interest Companies are limited companies which operate to provide a benefit to the community they serve. Their purpose is primarily one of community benefit so the ethos of the Bristol Family Therapy Collective speaks for itself.

Nina can be contacted here: ninajones.bftc@gmail.com