About Me

Throughout my career, I’ve supported a wide range of nurseries, schools, and colleges, including specialist and alternative provisions. I’ve collaborated with a wide range of professionals to support children’s needs including speech and language therapists, social workers, paediatricians, occupational therapists, clinical and forensic psychologists. My specialist educational psychologist role within a multi-disciplinary social care team helped me to collaborate with a range of professionals regularly to support the most vulnerable children and families within a London borough.  I have also supported schools and families systemically through workshops and training sessions.  

I continue to work with local authorities contributing on the Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan panel as well as carrying out EHCP assessments and traded work with schools. Alongside this, I now offer private services to both schools and families to support the children and young people in their care. I expanded my role to include private work because I wanted to offer more personalised and timely support to families and schools who were finding it hard to access help through traditional routes. While I still value and enjoy my work with local authorities, I often find there just isn’t enough time to support everyone who needs it. Working privately now gives me the flexibility to connect directly with families—and to work more closely and flexibly with schools. This helps me to offer support that’s responsive, timely and centred around the unique needs of each child and setting. 

I really value the variety in my work with both the local authority and working privately, as it allows me to support children at different stages of need and in diverse communities across the UK.

As a parent myself, I understand how precious children are and how important it is to support their development and wellbeing. My own experiences help me to work with empathy and understanding, whether I’m supporting a family or a professional team that cares deeply about the children in their care.

Prior to working as an educational psychologist, I worked in a range of roles within education such as an English language assistant, teaching assistant, assistant head of year, education welfare officer and trainee educational psychologist. I’ve also had the opportunity to live, study, and work in Spain, Barbados, the United States, and the UK and can speak Spanish at a conversational level. These experiences have deepened my appreciation for different cultures, languages, and education systems—all of which help me connect with and support the families I work with. I continue to enjoy travelling and learning about new ways of life, and I find that this curiosity and openness enriches my professional practice.

I am qualified as an educational psychologist to doctoral level and am registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), following my professional ethical guidelines throughout my practice.