An Evolving Man Podcast
An Evolving Man Podcast
Piers Cross
Jane Barclay: Boarding School, the Body, and the Long Road Back to Love | AEM #152
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Feb 20, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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In this episode, Piers Cross is joined by Jane Barclay, a humanistic psychology practitioner, UKCP-accredited, and a member of the BACP. Jane shares her journey into counselling and trauma work — beginning with a major life move, a profound sense of disorientation, and what she later recognised as a traumatic reaction to separation. Her story moves into the heart of boarding school experience: early attachment rupture, lack of privacy, “settling in” as dissociation, and the survival str...