Having had a successful first career as a singer songwriter in a 90’s indie band who released 3 albums worldwide and toured extensively for 10 years, I then made a radical change into the therapeutic world. Since then I have spent over 25 years working within therapeutic and support services for vulnerable people, becoming a clinical practice & service development consultant and heading up large scale services within the charity sector. My specialist focus is on developing and managing effective services to significantly improve outcomes for service users and to support the organisations and individuals who deliver frontline support. I have considerable breadth and depth of experience developing services for children and families and substantial expertise within child protection and safeguarding. I have a varied portfolio of national organisations with whom I have worked from strategic planning to frontline service delivery. I specialise in the development of effective service provision via systemic, organisational & clinical learning programmes to support complex teams and services to be cost and outcome effective. In leadership roles I have been responsible for multi-site national services that exist to address a range of complex needs. I favour creative, playful, innovative and empowering approaches to serious issues and have particular success in the creation of effective evidence based practice models. As a leader I am a highly skilled communicator, team builder and empathic motivator, able to support & direct highly performing teams towards organisational goals. I currently work as head of department within the leadership team of a non-conventional national charity within suicide prevention. I combine my senior strategic and service management experience with substantial clinical knowledge along with well developed leadership, communication and change management skills. I can find creative solutions to ingrained social problems and create interventions, teams and services that are effective, healthy and efficient. I am a qualified therapist with training in play therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and systemic practice.