About Robyn

I have been a psychologist for 30 years and for the past eight years have specialised in midlife development with the recent publication of my third book, Navigating the Empty Nest: re-creating relationships. 

When I started to experience depression, anxiety, lethargy and a desire for change in my late thirties I did not have the understandings I have today. As I started to write my own midlife story in my late forties I read over 100 books, mainly psychological ones, not easily accessible to the everyday reader. I discovered why these feelings are normal and in fact important at midlife as they encourage us to go on the significant psychological and spiritual journey of midlife transition – a journey towards a second half of life full of personal meaning. 

For the past eight years, since starting to write my first book, I have carried out research through intensive one to one interviews and read widely on subjects pertaining to healthy midlife development. 

Through my books, articles and public speaking my aim is to share my own journey and that of others and couple this with my professional experience to inform you about:

• Why midlife transition is a vital stage to navigate if you are to make the most of the second half of your life, including if as a parent you are to create healthily attached relationships with your young adult children 
• Practices you can bring in to your everyday life to create balance, well-being at healthily connected relationships at midlife 
• The types of activities that will support you at midlife