Over the past 9 years I have worked in NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - including for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. This work involved helping children, young people and their families with a wide range of moderate to severe emotional and mental health needs - providing clinical assessment and psychotherapy, consulting to the professionals around the child and supervising mental health practitioners.

To become an accredited member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), I completed a 6 year training, including a 4 year full-time clinical doctorate, funded by NHS England, at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. During my training I specialised in working with adolescents and children who were fostered and adopted.

Before training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist, I worked in the children's charity sector with abused and traumatised inner-city children, as the manager of a therapy centre and a key worker in primary and secondary schools.