The very foundations of my desire to relieve and aid children’s mental health and emotional issues emerged with my experience of having a child diagnosed with special needs. His SEN school offered so much support with helping my son learn to speak and make progress. I was inspired by their care and dedication to myself and my son, so decided to train as an early year’s teacher to offer similar support and make a difference for parents and their children.

I worked for a number of years in early years settings and during this time, I saw year on year an increase of children starting school with emotional and anxiety issues. I setup a number of support groups however it became apparent to me that I wanted to do more to defend the mental health of these children as the issues they were facing were affecting both their education and their day to day lives.

I have the firm belief that early intervention and aid in emotional and physical well-being is the key to children making progress and developing into well-adjusted stable adults.

All of this led me to retraining as a play therapist. Fundamental to play therapy is the relationship between therapist and client and I have witnessed the improvement and growth of children’s well-being through this therapy.