Experience

Blue Smile

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• School Clinical Lead, St Andrews Primary

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Managing a team of therapists and Mentors giving therapeutic support to children. Supervision of mentors. Meetings between teachers, carers and relevant professionals. I also hold a caseload.

• Therapist, Deputy teamleader, outreach therapist

  • Sep 2013 - Jan 2019

  First as a volunteer therapist, then as a deputy, supporting children with emotional difficulties in main stream primary schools through art and play. As part of the deputy role I also supported trainee therapists.



Self-employed

• Suffolk, UK

• Art Therapist, Dyadic Art Therapist

  • Nov 2008 - Present

  I believe in child-centred, child-led therapy using art materials, clay, sand trays and puppets. I help children to find a way to express their thoughts and feelings through creativity and play. Together I work with the child or young person to identify new strategies for expressing and managing feelings, thoughts and behaviours at home and at school. I also work dyadically with parents/carers and children using the creative process to strengthen relationships. Dyadic art therapy is a way of working that focuses on the relationship between the child and the parent. The sessions are intended to enhance a parent’s understanding of their child’s thoughts, feelings and mental landscape. Through this understanding it is hoped the parent will have a greater ability to support their child. Dyadic art therapy draws on attachment theory, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and developmental psychology.