Erin Shanks is a senior practitioner at the YUVA service run by the Domestic Violence Intervention Project – a division of the Richmond Fellowship. She has a background in dance movement psychotherapy, low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy and mentalisation-based therapy. She has worked with Women’s Aid and at inpatient forensic mental health services and alternative learning provision with survivors of domestic abuse and young people using child and adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse.