Colby Pearce
Colby Pearce is a Clinical Psychologist and author who lives and works on Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, and Nukunu country in the land known as Australia. Across the last thirty years Colby has worked continuously with children and young people recovering from a tough start to life, and adults who interact with them in care and professional roles. He maintains three busy psychotherapy clinics, but also finds time to write and deliver programs intended to enhance awareness of the experience, needs, and therapeutic care of young people who have experienced complex childhood trauma, including in Ireland. Colby also works with individuals and teams who support the stabilisation of kinship care arrangements, transition from- and post-guardianship care, and family reunification. Colby is the author of A Short Introduction to Attachment Disorder (2016) and A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children (2011).