Meet Debbie Walker

Debbie Walker is the founder and CEO of Family Connections Essex, a respected service offering supervised contact, welfare visits, and holistic family support across Essex and beyond. With over 25 years’ experience spanning health, social care, education, and family services, Debbie brings a calm, child-focused approach to even the most complex family situations.

Her extensive background includes managing family and children’s centres and working across safeguarding, early intervention, and behaviour support services. She is passionate about ensuring children have safe, nurturing spaces to maintain or rebuild relationships with family members following separation or during court proceedings.

Family Connections Essex is built on Debbie’s values of neutrality, empathy, and respectful communication. The service works closely with families, legal professionals, and local authorities to provide structured, trauma-informed support at times of uncertainty, always keeping children’s emotional well-being at the heart of the process.

At Mediation Matters Midlands, we are proud to collaborate with professionals like Debbie, whose values of neutrality, compassion, and integrity echo our own. Her expertise complements our family mediation work by offering families a robust, child-safe environment for maintaining or rebuilding contact, especially where court orders or safeguarding concerns are in play.