MONIQUE HANNA.

Psychotherapist,
writer and creator of

Dark Inheritance.

Monique Hanna is a psychotherapist,
writer and creator of Dark Inheritance,
a psychological framework exploring
the hidden family patterns we carry into adult life.
Her work sits at the intersection of psychology,

lived
experience
and storytelling,

using archetypes to make
complicated emotional dynamics
immediately recognisable.
But Monique did not discover the Forest
from a textbook.
She lived inside it.

She has been the daughter of a Ghost and a Ghoul,
the woman drawn to False Gods,
the Rescuer, the addict —
and eventually the therapist
trying to understand the architecture beneath it all.
Her perspective therefore comes
from both sides of the therapeutic room:
professional knowledge and lived experience.

Dark Inheritance grew from a question
that was both personal and professional:

Why can we understand that a
relationship is hurting us —
and still feel
powerfully drawn towards it?

The answer led backwards, into childhood,
family systems and the
nervous system’s extraordinary tendency
to recognise the familiar as home.

Monique’s work is not about blaming parents
or remaining trapped in the past.
It is about naming what was inherited,

understanding what we became
in response to it,
and discovering that an adaptation
which once protected us
does not have to direct the rest of our lives.