The Team

Child & Family Therapist

Sara has recently joined the team and brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge. She works across all ages – using her  skills to deliver our Connecting The Dots programme, as well as working in schools and supporting teachers and professionals.

She has been a qualified therapist for 9 years, as well as worked in schools for over 15 years. Sara’s practice is person-centred and integrative, drawing on creative and play-based approaches, alongside talking therapy, to meet each client’s needs. She has extensive experience supporting attachment difficulties, neurodivergence, trauma, anxiety, emotional and relational challenges, emotional dysregulation, and sensory processing needs.

Sara is a creative therapist - skilled at working with parent and carers, social workers, school based staff always with the child at the centre of all the work.

Child & Family Therapist

Jane’s passion for working with children, young people and families has been the foundation of her career. With over 15 years experience within the mental health services, Jane joins us to work across our therapeutic support offer.

She creates a warm, collaborative and safe space, working together with young people and families, for them to feel heard, understood and empowered. 

Jane believes that every family has unique strengths and therapy can be a safe space to explore emotions, improve communication and build stronger connections.

Child & Family Therapist and Yoga Teacher

Amy is a compassionate therapist with a core belief that each individual is shaped by their own life experience. Movement, body awareness and creativity are central to Amy’s way of working, however she will always be led by the client’s needs.

Amy has worked within the field of mental health for the past 15 years as both a social worker and therapist, her practice has included her working within education, social care and the NHS.

Amy specialises in working with those impacted by developmental trauma and with the neurodivergent community.

Occupational Therapist  

Natalie has worked as an Occupational Therapist for the past 14 years in both private and NHS settings, over this period of time she has refined her practice to become Sensory Integration qualified.

Natalie has 10 years experience of working specifically with young people presenting with complex needs and Autism, including working on a low secure ward for young people and adults. This experience in different settings has given her a wealth of knowledge for what is possible and effective in the realms of sensory. 

Natalie enables us to provide necessary specialised sensory integration informed services to adopted children and their families. 

Child & Family Therapist

Laura's work with Curiosity Project fits with her core values of integrity, honesty and respect, which can be seen in the way she approaches her clients with humility and warmth.

Laura has worked with children and families for over 12 years both as therapist and as service manager. She has a wealth of experience in working with children with learning and/or physical disabilities and with those impacted by developmental trauma.

Laura is passionate about her work with children and families and this is evident through her investment in the connection from beginning to end.

Therapeutic Life Story Work

Within Curiosity Project, Maartje takes the lead on Therapeutic Life Story Work and has experience working with those impacted by developmental trauma, neurodiverse clients and those with attachment difficulties. Maartje has worked with vulnerable children and young people for over 20 years, including supporting unaccompanied children seeking asylum.

Maartje’s background in Drama Teaching means she is extremely skilled at connecting with children and young people. She has a natural warmth, a playful spirit and embodies a non-judgemental way of being.

Play Therapist

Rhiannon is a thoughtful and gentle therapist with a passion for movement, metaphor, and the outdoors. She has worked therapeutically with children and families for the last 10 years before training as a Play Therapist in 2019. Rhiannon loves seeing each child’s uniqueness and helping them to feel safe, grounded, and free to express themselves.

Alongside this she is motivated by listening to parents’ and carers’ parenting challenges and helping them to feel more in control, understood, and able to enjoy their children.