About Pei-I Yang

Integrative Family & Systemic Psychotherapist

Clinical Director, Rainbow Parenting Practice and Rainbow Family Therapy Service

I’m Pei-I Yang, a UKCP-accredited Family & Systemic Psychotherapist.

For over 30 years, I’ve supported children, adolescents, parents, and entire family systems through moments of uncertainty, rupture, transition, and repair.

My work draws from four disciplines: family systemic therapy, psychology, psychoanalytic thinking, and child development.

But more than that, it’s rooted in the belief that relationships are where we struggle—and where we heal.

I offer a space where change becomes possible. In our work together, we create space to slow things down. To look underneath what’s happening. To understand patterns that may go back generations, but are still playing out now. To restore a sense of safety—for each person and for the system as a whole.

This may look like:

Feeling less reactive with each other
Being able to sit in the same room without tension
Rebuilding trust after breakdowns
Making meaning of things that were never named

No two families are the same. And there is no single path back to connection.
But when families begin to feel safe again—everything else becomes possible.

This work is for you if...

You're ready to explore your family life with compassion
You're open to understanding the system, not just the symptoms
You want support that honours both the complexity and the love inside your family
You value depth, trust, and long-term change—not surface strategies

In the 30 years of experience working with families, adults, children, and professionals facing complexity in managerial, clinical, and consultative roles, I learned that difficulties don’t live inside one person. They live in relationships, histories, and systems. Every one in the family is part of the solution.

Pei-I Yang, Family Therapist sitting thinking about family therapy

My Background

For nearly 30 years, I’ve supported families across education, volungary sectore, local authorities, and private practice. What connects every space I’ve worked in is this: families come carrying so much more than what shows on the surface.

I’ve walked alongside families navigating:

Ongoing conflict or emotional breakdowns
Experiences of trauma, loss, or rupture
The challenges and richness of neurodivergence
Patterns that repeat across generations—despite everyone’s best efforts
Encounters with systems that mislabel or misunderstand them

My approach is grounded in Family & Systemic Psychotherapy and shaped by three additional lenses: Psychology, psychoanalytic thinking, and child development. Together, these perspectives help me hold both emotional depth and practical direction—without reducing anyone to a diagnosis or a behaviour.

How I Work

I don’t work to “fix” individuals. I work to help families understand what’s happening between them, how past experiences are shaping present responses, and how new patterns can be built safely and sustainably.

Who I Work With

Every family is different. I work with a wide range of relationships, life stages, and challenges, including: (This is not an exhaustive list)

Families navigating high conflict, emotional disconnection, or relational shutdown
Parents struggling to respond to a teenager’s out-of-control or frightening behaviour
Families caring for children or adolescents with experiences of trauma, care, or disrupted attachment
Parents and adult children working through long-standing tension or distance
Families living with neurodivergence, mental health challenges, or complex developmental histories
Relationship difficulties at home—between siblings, co-parents, or across generations
Care-experienced children and the families, carers, or systems around them
Professionals and services supporting families who need systemic consultation or reflective space

I also provide consultation and training to organisations working with families, including care, fostering, adoption, and frontline services — helping professionals think systemically without burning out.

Why Rainbow Family Therapy

Families are often offered support in pieces. One person sees the child. Another works with the parent. Advice comes in fragments—but no one is holding the whole story.

At Rainbow Family Therapy, I work systemically—helping families see what’s happening between them, beneath the surface, and across time. We take a wider view. And we begin to make sense of what’s felt stuck for too long.

This work is thoughtful, careful, and grounded in deep respect for each person’s experience. If you’re feeling unsure, overwhelmed, or simply tired—know that you’re not alone.

Families respond to what they’ve lived through. With the right kind of support, those responses can begin to shift. That’s what this space is for.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

Families: Enqurie here to explore whether family therapy is the right starting point.

Professionals, Services & Businesses: Enquire here about systemic case consultation, team trianing and bespoke Family Therapy and Parenting Support For Employee Wellbeing.

Qualification

MSc in Childhood Studies
MSc in Psychological Studies
MSc in Psychoanalytical Thinking: Skills to work with children and young people
MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, UKCP Registered
Member of Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice
Trainee membership for British Psychoanalytical Council
Senior member of The Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings