Shayna, a stepmum to two boys, talks to psychotherapist Claire Asherson-Bartram about how she is struggling to establish her role in her blended family.

Nicola, a mum to a teenage son talks about her relationship with her boyfriend, his 12 year old daughter who has Nonverbal autism and her birth mother.

In episode three of Step Life, Rachel Silver talks to Claire Asherson Bartram, a psychotherapist who specialises in working with stepfamilies. Claire talks about how and why she started to work with blended families and gives her advice on a number of common issues and how to deal with them.