Ash Molloy

As Shropshire’s lead for Reducing Parental Conflict, a national programme, I work with stakeholders to devise strategies for improving parental relationships in the county. This includes working with a wide range of partners across the health and social care sector. One of our priorities is delivering training to upskill the entire workforce to recognise and understand interparental conflict and its impact on children, families, and communities. I deliver training in understanding parental conflict, complex co-parenting, and helping children understand adult relationships. I also offer consultancy to professionals in support of families experiencing ongoing conflict.

I began my career in early years, progressing into coaching parents and carers, and then into specialist youth work. I have worked for five different local authorities in a variety of roles. For a time, I also ran my own health and wellbeing business. I have qualifications in Early Years, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Counselling, and Education and Training. I also have a BA degree and a masters in Cultural Studies, where I focussed on the study of relationship expectations and romantic ideology; an area that I have researched extensively in the last decade. I am now a published author in this field. I have an intense interest in social psychology and relationship science and have developed my own model of attachment theory.

I’m a largely redundant (yet proud) mum of two very independent young women and three spoiled Siamese. If I’m not at work, I’m either up a hill with my dogs or writing songs with my partner.