• Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health, London, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University, Senior Associate of the Royal College of Medicine
• Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years experience working with children and families
• Author of over twenty books in child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries
• Psychotherapist for Looked After Children and Teenagers for 10 years in residential care homes
• Author of the acclaimed book, 'The Science of Parenting' which achieved First Prize in the British Medical Association Book awards 2007 (Popular Medicine section). The book has also been voted one of the top 'brain books of our time' by The Dana Foundation
• 'Helping Children with Feelings’ series (Speechmark) are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals all over the UK and abroad
• Co-Founding Director of the Higher Education College, The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education, academic partner of University of East London which runs Masters degree courses and Diplomas in Adolescent Therapy, Child Counselling and Parent-Child Therapy
• Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice

Margot is a member of the Early Years Commission, the Centre for Social Justice, Westminster, and co-author of the Cross Party Advisory Report ‘The Next Generation’ (early years intervention). She is Founder of the ‘Helping Where it Hurts’ which is a programme offering free arts therapy to troubled children in North London Primary schools. Underpinning all her work is Margot's lifelong interest is neuroscience. Her research in this field originated with her Doctoral Thesis 'The Art and Science of the Psychological Treatment of Children'. This was based on 10 years of neuroscience tuition from the founder of Affective Neuroscience Professor Jaak Panksepp.

• Former Headteacher of a School for Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
• Over 17 years experience as a qualified teacher in supporting children and young people with social, emotional and mental health difficulties and/or challenging behaviour at both a practitioner and senior leadership level within both the mainstream and specialist sectors
• Trust Lead for Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) and Inclusion for the Bright Tribe and Adventure Learning Academy Multi Academy Trusts
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team with responsibility for SEMH at Penryn Primary Academy
• Independent freelance Consultant supporting teachers, education professionals and counsellors with individuals and groups of challenging and/or vulnerable children
• Extensive experience in training, coaching, mentoring and supervision
• Co-Director of Training for Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK) informing delivering and supporting mental health training to schools in the UK
• Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice

Julie is passionate about supporting children and young people to be the best they can be helping them to remove the barriers preventing full engagement in life and learning. She has a particular interest and expertise in supporting schools to develop a fully inclusive approach with both students and members of the school community, facilitating an environment where the mental health and well being of all is central to the school ethos.

Julie divides her time between working at the chalkface in both a practical and advisory capacity, with training, supporting and challenging schools to embed and develop their trauma informed practice. Julie is delighted to be working with Trauma Informed Schools, focusing on supporting professionals to understand and embed a whole school approach to good mental health and emotional well being.

MSc Gestalt Psychotherapy, B.Ed. (hons),Dip Gestalt Psychotherapy

I was a secondary school teacher, a Local Authority Advisor, Inspector, OFSTED Inspector, psychotherapist and Founding Director of Thrive.

I was a teacher for many years always concerned for those young people we failed to reach.

My training in Psychotherapy helped me to begin to refine my understanding about how we could begin to meet the needs of traumatised children more effectively. I was part of a team of 4 who created Thrive,, a project aiming to help adults meet the emotional developmental needs of children and young people.

Currently I am delighted to be part of the inspirational TISUK project because it aims to fundamentally change the life trajectory of children and young people who are in pain.

• Former Deputy Head Teacher for 10 years of a local authority special school in Bristol for children with SEMH needs and over a year as acting Headteacher
• Former Head of Foundation at Mulberry Bush Organisation; a psychotherapeutic institution for very traumatised children
• 24 years experience as a qualified teacher and then Senior Lead in supporting children and young people within the mainstream and those with social, emotional and mental health difficulties and/or challenging behaviour
• Qualified Nurture group teacher; Professional Certificates in Educational Therapy and in Understanding and Managing Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
• Outdoor Learning consultant and Level 3 trained Forest School leader; experienced in supporting the strategic and philosophical development and practice of outdoor learning
• Experienced Trainer and Consultant in the theory and potential of Outdoor learning and Animal Assisted Interventions for learning
• Independent freelance Consultant supporting teachers and other education professionals with individuals and groups of challenging and/or vulnerable children. Specialising in understanding and supporting behaviour for better learning
• Extensive experience in training, coaching, mentoring and supervision
• Experienced researcher, speaker and presenter in the above fields
• Owner of a registered ‘Pets as Therapy’ dog who regularly accompanies her with work
• Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice

Coral now spends much of her time as a freelance consultant and trainer, and some as a practitioner at the chalk-face. Coral is delighted to be working with Trauma Informed Schools, focusing on supporting professionals to understand and embed a whole school approach to good mental health and emotional well being.

• Over 25 years’ experience in education as a teacher and senior leader in mainstream and special schools and as a Local Authority Adviser
• Local Authority adviser: supporting and advising primary, secondary and special school senior leadership teams and school staff in all aspects of policy and practice regarding inclusion, pupil behaviour, social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) and overcoming pupils’ barriers to learning
• Head of an Education Partnership, working strategically to provide a range of additional intervention and support services for the ten partnership schools and the families and communities they served
• Extensive experience as trainer, mentor and assessor of trainee teachers on school-based initial teacher training programmes and as a trainer supporting adoptive and foster parents
• Qualified restorative practices facilitator; solution-focused teacher coach; Massage in Schools Programme trainer; infant massage instructor
• Independent freelance consultant working with schools and professionals from other agencies to support troubled and troubling children and their families
• Extensive experience in training, coaching, mentoring and supervision

Chris is passionately committed to supporting colleagues and families to improve the life chances of troubled and troubling children and young people. She is fascinated and inspired by the ever-deepening knowledge and understanding of the brain and body that neuroscience gives us and how that is now being woven into the understanding and practice of clinicians. She is enormously excited by the potential impact of this research on school culture and on improved outcomes for children, young people and for families.

• Project Manager for TISUK & HeadStart Kernow workforce training delivery, overseeing the training of all schools and many community organisations in Cornwall
• South West Regional Co-ordinator for Mental Health Training
• Senior trainer in Trauma Informed Practice
• Extensive experience in an Area Recourse Base Nurture Group supporting children on the brink of exclusion from mainstream provision
• Former Primary school Lead rolling out a whole school approach to support children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
• Nurture Group Outreach worker supporting children in mainstream schools and working with school staff to implement strategies to support children with SEMH difficulties
• Learning mentor in a primary school working with children with SEND
• Voluntary group leader for Pyramid Kernow, running groups for children to raise self-esteem and confidence, whilst building relationships, resilience and tackling bullying
• BSC hons Psychology

• UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist
• Clinical Supervisor and Senior Consultant in working with children and young people with Complex Trauma
• Previously Acting Manager and Head of Therapy at residential therapeutic community
• Developed 52 week group work programme for traumatised children and young people in residential therapeutic school and community setting
• Senior Tutor, Masters Degree Programme in Child Psychotherapy (Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education/Academic Partner (University of East London))
• Senior Lecturer The Centre for Child Mental Health London
• Extensive experience in training, supervision and consultation with adoptive families and/or young people with complex trauma
• Contributing Author to Helping Teenagers with Anger and Low Self Esteem, M. Sunderland (2012) Hinton House Publishers Ltd.
• Approved Author for TeachIt online educational resource website for CPD blogs and articles on mental health in the classroom

• Former Headteacher of three schools, all facing significant challenges
• Former Local Education Authority Adviser for Torbay (responsible for the development of alternative provision for primary aged children and working for all Primary, Special and Secondary Schools to implement new programmes and support for the most vulnerable children
• Former Ofsted Inspector
• Over 30 years experience in education (a range of settings from small rural primary schools to large urban schools in areas of considerable deprivation)
• Leader of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools Programme and worked with agencies from Health, Social Care and Education to develop services to support families and children in need. Delivered training in Developing Emotionally Healthy Schools and Change Management to support schools in changing the culture of their settings to put the well being of staff and children at the heart of their vision and values
• Educational Consultant specifically supporting schools in developing inclusive practice and meeting the needs of vulnerable learners
• Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice

• Headteacher of two different schools with over fifteen years experience
• Extensive experience in education, including Special Education and mainstream schools, both in Devon and the North West
• A wide range of teaching experience across Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stages One, Two and Three
• Experience in training, mentoring and supervision focusing on social, emotional and mental health needs in school
• Embedded a whole school approach based on inclusion and understanding of the importance of relationship
• Created a support network addressing social, emotional and mental health needs across local learning communities, with continual professional development
• Experience of working with a wide range of agencies and ensuring effective communication

• UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist
• Educational Consultant and Trainer Masters Degree programme in Child Psychotherapy leading to nationally recognised registration (UCKP). Adolescent Counselling and Emotional Literacy
• 28 years of experience in the field of Education and Emotional Literacy, Psychotherapy and Psychology working with adults, adolescents and children
• Psychotherapeutic work in hospitals, schools, private practise and for Parenting Groups, and Art Therapy Groups
• Founder of HeartSpace, Holistic, Education and Art Related Therapies
• Principal Trainer for Headstart Kernow roll-out for 3 Years Big Lottery Project to promote emotional wellbeing in schools
• Chair for The Centre for Child Mental Health international conference programme
• Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice

Ellie believes in the healing power of The Arts, Nature and Animals and regularly teaches accompanied by her therapy dog Gem

• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, Adolescent Therapeutic Counsellor, Group Analyst and Supervisor.
• UKCP Ethics representative on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee for Children and Young People
• Worked extensively with children, adolescents, adults, families, couples and groups for over 15 years in various settings e.g. schools, community projects, children’s homes and within the NHS.  
• Works in private practice and for organisations offering supervision and reflective staff group sessions.
• Delivers MBT group supervision for couple therapists at the Tavistock Clinic where there has been high conflict / DV.
• Special interests:  sexual abuse, DV, dissociation, divorce and separations, developmental trauma, looked after children or adults who have been in the care system and / or adoption,  issues of identity with adults and children who have been placed trans-racially or via intercountry processes.

• Senior Consultant and Trainer in Trauma Informed Practice and Emotional Health
• Educational Psychotherapist (MA in Therapeutic Education) Caspari
• Senior Trauma Informed Trainer for Trauma Informed schools UK

Previously

• Mental Health Practitioner for CAMHS, leading a programme of training on Emotional well being, attachment and mental health across Dorset. 
• Consultant for the Primary Strategy Team in Dorset, coordinating Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) and later as the Emotional well being Adviser for the Borough of Poole.
• Advisory teacher in Tanzania, East Africa
• Advisor for an East London Behaviour and Advisory Team
• Led a number of LA and multi- agency initiatives and has written and created PSHE materials for schools.
• Has a range of experience in training and consultative work having been a facilitator and trainer at National Conferences and a consultant trainer for the Institute of Education, London.
• Manager for Chesil Emotional Health and Behaviour Service, a team of professionals working to support children, families and schools, and created  Thrive Education Zones that operated as Thrive nurture bases for  children at risk of exclusion and supported families and schools to enable the children to return to mainstream provision. The project also worked with parents to support them and to enable them to build their own self-esteem in supporting their children.

• Former Vice Principal of Alternative Provision/Pupil Referral Unit.
• Almost 18 year’s experience as a qualified primary teacher and SENDCo supporting children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND), and/or challenging behaviours at both a practitioner and senior leadership level.
• A background in inclusion, behaviour and emotional wellbeing in a range of settings from village schools to large urban schools and schools in significant areas of deprivation
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team at numerous schools across Plymouth and Devon.
• Team Manager within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Lead for the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) Team in Plymouth.  Interim responsibility held for the Primary Mental Health Work (PMHW) Team and the Infant Mental Health (IMH) Team.
• Additional qualifications in Family Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Counselling, Child IAPT Supervisor Training and qualified Strengthening Families Programme facilitator.

Sonya Anjari: MA, Accredited MBACP is a Gestalt Centre trained Counsellor (2005) and Integrative Adolescent Therapeutic Counsellor (IATE 2009), Group Facilitator (2018), Child, Adolescent and Adult Clinical Supervisor (Terapia and Gestalt Centre 2018), Trauma Informed Schools Trainer (2018).

Sonya draws on 16 years of counselling experience in a variety of settings: in Japan with international teachers; secondary schools in London and Cornwall; West London drug and alcohol settings; Feltham Young Offenders Institute. Sonya developed an online counselling service for young people affected by another’s addiction and delivered Equine Assisted therapy. Sonya is a guest tutor with teaching institutions in Cornwall and is part of the senior trainer team with Trauma Informed Schools UK. Sonya provides clinical supervision and group facilitation to private practitioners, schools and charities working with people affected by trauma, alongside private practice.

• Senior Consultant and Trainer in Trauma Informed Practice and Emotional Health
• Educational Psychotherapist (MA in Therapeutic Education) Caspari
• Senior Trauma Informed Trainer for Trauma Informed schools UK

Previously

• Mental Health Practitioner for CAMHS, leading a programme of training on Emotional well being, attachment and mental health across Dorset. 
• Consultant for the Primary Strategy Team in Dorset, coordinating Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) and later as the Emotional well being Adviser for the Borough of Poole.
• Advisory teacher in Tanzania, East Africa
• Advisor for an East London Behaviour and Advisory Team
• Led a number of LA and multi- agency initiatives and has written and created PSHE materials for schools.
• Has a range of experience in training and consultative work having been a facilitator and trainer at National Conferences and a consultant trainer for the Institute of Education, London.
• Manager for Chesil Emotional Health and Behaviour Service, a team of professionals working to support children, families and schools, and created  Thrive Education Zones that operated as Thrive nurture bases for  children at risk of exclusion and supported families and schools to enable the children to return to mainstream provision. The project also worked with parents to support them and to enable them to build their own self-esteem in supporting their children.

• Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist for over 20 years.
• Group Analyst.
• Past Internal Advisor on Child and Family Mental Health for the Department of Health (1990-91).
• PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies.
• Author of several book chapters and journal articles including Integrating Object Relations Narratives in Analytic Work with Children and Adolescents (2002), and ‘Narrative and Interpretation’ in Heart and Soul: The Therapeutic Face of Philosophy (1999, Mace, C.(Ed).

• Clinical Lead CAMHS, Kernow NHS Commissioning Group
• Independent Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Cornwall)

Previous Posts include:

• Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychology and Therapy Service, Cornwall Council, Children, Psychology, Schools and Families
• Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist, Cornwall Partnership Trust, Learning Disabilities Service
• Director of Children’s Services (Project Liberty) New York State Office of Mental Health, USA
• Consultant Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Barnet CAMHS
• Principal Clinical Psychologist, Northgate Clinic, London
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Cassell Hospital, London
• Lecturer in Psychology, Kings College, London University

• Fellow of The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
• Director of the University of East London validated trainings in Therapeutic Wellbeing Practice (Therapeutic Wellbeing Practice and Community Wellbeing: Families, Organisations and Communities)
• Co- Director Clinical Supervision Training at IATE
• Convenor of the Working Group for Children and Young People in the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College HIPC within the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy UKCP
• Former Course Leader Central/Sesame Training in Drama and Movement Therapy at Central School of Speech and Drama
• Former Principal of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and Course Leader MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy
• Clinical Director of The Schools Programme
• Registered Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and Child Psychotherapist UKCP
• Drama and Movement Therapist and Art Psychotherapist HCPC
• MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies
• Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice

• Paul Harris, (MA UKCP) has more than 20 years of experience working with children and young people in a variety of different contexts including Education, CAMHS, the Community Arts as well as in private practice.

• He is a senior faculty member on the MA in Integrative Child Psychotherapy at The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education; a qualified supervisor (Minster Centre); and Group work Practitioner (Institute for Group Analysis). He is also a senior training consultant for The Centre for Child Mental Health as well as Trauma Informed Schools.

• He specialises in somatic arts-based and trauma -informed practices as well as eco-psychotherapy in his work with children and families. His work has focused amongst other areas on addiction and trauma; attachment difficulties with Looked After Children; and children with alternate and non-standard forms of communication including ASD and other nuerodiverse expressions.

• Paul is a qualified Yoga-therapist (Minded Institute); Cranio-sacral Therapist; and Continuum Movement Practitioner and is director of Ahimsa Associates Ltd: A Creative Wellbeing Consultancy.

• He works in 4 different community languages, including English, French, Spanish and British Sign Language."

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” ― Kahlil Gibran

• UKCP registred Integrative Arts Psychotherapist, consultant, trainer and supervisor
• Interpersonal Psychotherapist for adults and adolescents(IPTUK)
• UKCP Child College Chair and Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity for children and young people
• Worked with children, adolescents, adults, families and couples for over 20 years in schools, community projects, CAMHS, adult mental health services, learning disabilities services and local authorities.
• Specialism: Working with trauma, developmental trauma, looked after children and adolescents, adoptions, adults who have been in the care system, women who have experienced abuse and violence in relationships.
• Commited to organisational and sytemic change.

• UKCP Reg Psychotherapeutic Counsellor working internationally with children and young people who have suffered extreme sexual and physical violence
• Established an Art Therapy service in Kitgum (Uganda) in an orphanage for former child soldiers, AIDS orphans and young people affected by murder of close relatives and extreme trauma.
• Foreign Consultant in Karachi (Pakistan) for the psychological treatment of children/ teenagers who have suffered extreme sexual and physical violence
• Trainer with over 15 years experience working with challenging youth
• Author of several books on working with traumatised teenagers: You Think I’m Evil: Practical strategies for working with aggressive and rebellious adolescents (2011). I, Monster: Positive ways of working with challenging teens through understanding the adolescent within us (2016). The Rage for Life (2017): A psycho-educational resource for professionals working with young people who have experienced abuse or witnessed domestic violence
• Produced Film ‘Kitgum’s Orphans; Invisible Wounds’ on children and teenagers affected by extreme trauma (Entered Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA 2013). View Here

• BSc in Policing and Investigation
• Police officer for over 13 years and accredited Trauma & Mental Health Informed Practitioner (embedded this within her daily practice direct with children)
• Working with children to prevent offending and reoffending,
• Responsible for cases of repeatedly missing children so works very closely with social care, youth offending service, schools, substance misuse support teams and child support services.
• An ABE ‘achieving best evidence’ trained interviewer for child victims
• Ran a police cadet unit with vulnerable children.
• Lead on an Erasmus+ program into ACE aware practice with European partners on behalf of Devon and Cornwall Police.

• Over 20 years experience working with young children and their families
• Working in OFSTED Outstanding Nurseries where her particular service was
  highlighted in the OFSTED report
• Family Support worker in various settings, nursery, Hospital based
  children and families social care team
• Extensive training and experience in working to improve attachment in very troubled infants and parent- infant relationships
• Working in partnership with parents/carers and other professionals to improve the outcomes for children and families most in need
• Holding caseloads of families ensuring they receive the right support from the appropriate agency at the right time
• Play and Communication Early Intervention Practitioner (Several Children’s Centres)
• Assessing the needs of troubled infants and their families
• Providing specific support packages that enable children to develop their communication skills
• Supporting parents in attuned regulating interactions with their infants and addressing attachment ruptures
• Working in partnership with outside agencies to provide a service to the local community
• Co-Director: Parent- Child Relationship Spa (Centre for Child Mental Health London) - supporting parents to interact with their infants through attachment play to optimise relational and emotional health
• Co-Presenter DVD series Best Relationship with your Child with Parenting Expert Dr Margot Sunderland

• Working in Devon as an Educational Psychologist  for over 15 years, providing psychological support and advice to schools, families, children and young people, many of whom have suffered abuse, neglect and trauma
• Extensive experience working across educational settings from pre-school, primary, secondary, special schools and pupil referral units and children out of education.
• Developed training for professionals working in social care and for foster carers and adoptive parents.
• Senior Educational Psychologist Babcock LDP
• Generic EP providing an applied psychology service of consultation, assessment and intervention regarding the educational needs of children and young people in Devon
• Works closely with children, parents, teachers and other agencies and delivering a range of services to schools and other settings

Micki has a background in project and contract management, having previously worked in construction managing the restoration of historic buildings for a community interest company. She is passionate about children receiving the best emotional support they can and combines this with her love of all things design to lead TISUKs Marketing and Social Media.

Lisa looks after TISUK training bookings, managing enquiries and supporting the training team.

• Former SEMH lead and coordinator in a primary school continuing to embed and implement a whole school approach
• Family support worker within mainstream schools providing care and support to families and children within the home to support and enable learning
• Lead playworker across five inner city primary’s for children with SEMH needs
• Learning mentor for 14-19 yeas olds within secondary schools
• Qualified Complementary Therapist
• BA Hons Business Administration
• FDSC Complementary Health Studies