Kairo is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered dramatherapist and a British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) registered Time-limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (TAPP) practitioner, based in London, UK. She works in a Community NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and is currently completing a doctorate in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Kairo also writes and speaks about intergenerational trauma and attachment, racial injustice and health inequalities for Black and other marginalised communities. Her work includes: ‘Can Dramatherapy help Black women discover their true self despite racial and gender oppression?’ (2018, Dramatherapy Journal); “As a Black therapist, I want to see action come out of mental health awareness discussions” (online, 2019, Mental Health Today); ‘A Black Therapist Sees Herself: Exploring sameness and difference in the dramatherapy room’, in ‘Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies’ (2022, Jessica Kingsley Publishers). Kairo is passionate about improving the visibility of Black, Asian and other unprioritised therapists and trainees in the UK.

For BWTUK 24 one-day online conference, Kairo offered a dynamic seminar entitled From the Strong Life to the ‘Soft Life’: Why Black women are looking to Change.