- Writer
- Poet
- Psychologist
- Advocate
- Mother
I want to wake parents up before hindsight does.
I’m a psychologist and a mother. My son disclosed sexual abuse at daycare, and the investigation closed with three words: no offence detected. I write so other families see sooner.
this is how harm travels, and how it stops.
- From 'Remarkable'
- No Offence Detected
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- The Work
Three bodies of work, one purpose.
- Poetry
- October 2026
No Offence Detected
Visceral, evidence-led poems that refuse to look away — and refuse to be only grief. Police language turned against itself, a body that knew first, a dinosaur lamp still on. What ‘no offence detected’ forges
- Children's book
- In production
Wings to Fly: Courage and Tricky Secrets
This story follows a boy and his peer, and a friendship that turns tricky. Alongside the boy is a little bird who mirrors his feelings when he has no words for them, and who becomes the quiet shape of his recovery when he is hurt. It’s gentle protective behaviours carried by story and metaphor.
- Memoir
- Preorder
The Signs We Miss
A mother and psychologist who missed the signs in her own child after they return from daycare, and turned that reckoning into a life’s work. Read about the project, add your voice, and preorder ahead of publication.
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- The Poetry Collection
No Offence Detected
No offence detected. Three words that closed an investigation, and named a collection. These poems are not about what happened to my son. They are what I became.
Accountability is not violence.
Ignorance is what abuse depends on.
So does familiarity.
Know their name. Not their reassurances. Their record.
From 'Know Their Name'
I read in a low voice and the words build walls around us, a fortress the institutions do not have the key to.
This is the only jurisdiction I have won.
From 'Sanctuary'
Performed at the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival poetry slam. Written in a lineage rooted in Negro spirituals and carried forward by activist poets — after Neal Hall, who writes after Martin Luther King Jr., and after Rob Waters. Voice passed from one throat to another. Hear the poems aloud on the, Poetry & Performance page.
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- Poems
- Seven movements
From $25
- Trade paperback
- Writing
The Protective Insight
Analysis that protects and insight that heals. A trauma psychologist, writer, poet and mother survivor on a journey to bring awareness, introception and courage to child protection. This is my human revolution. Every piece is gathered here.
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- About Hayley
Standing on the same wound, twice.
'These poems are not about what happened to my son. They are what I became.'
- Hayley Jones
- Writer
- Poet
- Psychologist
- Advocate
I’m a psychologist and a court appointed expert who understands disclosure, abuse signs, dissociation, and grooming clinically. I’m also a mother whose child did not get justice. Most people writing in this space have one form of standing. I have both.
My son disclosed sexual abuse at daycare. I knew the research, and I still waited, held by the same normalcy bias and dissociation I now name for other parents. By the time I acted, critical evidence was gone. The investigation closed with three words. I sold a seven figure psychology practice and began again, as a writer and advocate.
The work moves parents from passive trust to informed vigilance: to recognise warning signs earlier, trust their instincts sooner, and ask harder questions of the institutions they were told to trust. Curiosity is not paranoia. Vigilance is not violence.
For my family’s safety, I write under a pen name and use altered imagery. This work is literary and true to my lived experience.
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New poems, the road to publication, and the conversations in between. The latest lives on Instagram.
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