Wholehearted Family Services

My name is Kylie Taylor. I am a registered Social Worker in Hawkes Bay. I have spent 4 and a half years working with families in schools and in the community. I have spent three years providing education to families and school communities around Hawkes Bay on child anxiety and trauma.  I also spent three years as a schoolteacher in Hawkes Bay.

As a child I grew up living with chronic and crippling anxiety that had a major impact on my life well into adulthood. A part of this condition was based on my experience of growing up in a family where I felt disconnected and misunderstood. I experienced my own trauma but also unconsciously took on the trauma experiences of my family. The anxiety was a symptom of this. My unresolved early childhood trauma followed me into the education system which further perpetuated my trauma and continued into adulthood.