After reading Education and English Literature at Homerton College, Cambridge, I began my career as a teacher. Inspired my experiences in the classroom, I returned to Cambridge a few years later, this time to Clare College, to complete a Master’s degree and then a PhD, both in Education. My doctoral research examined the experiences of families navigating systems when a child is struggling at school, and explored how meaningful partnerships between parents and professionals can be established. Since then, I have held a range of inclusion and advisory roles across educational settings and sectors. The last eight years of my in-school career were at Harrow School and for much of this time, I led their provision for boys with additional needs.
In 2020, I founded Speros Consultancy, a bespoke education and neurodiversity consultancy based in London but serving families worldwide. This brought together my academic learning, my professional experience and life-long commitment to enabling young people to thrive in life and learning.
As an education and neurodiversity specialist, my work includes: empowering families to navigate educational questions and dilemmas, and spans neurodiversity guidance and advocacy, designing personalised home-learning programmes, mentoring support for young people at school and university, family guidance, and working in coordination with other leading specialists.
Families seek my guidance on a wide range of educational matters. These include:
• Thinking and learning differences and how best to understand and support these at school or university.
• Anxiety related to attending school
• Their child is struggling in tests and exams
• Complex situations where it is unclear how to move forward
• Situations where mental health challenges and neurodivergence intersect.
• Boarding school contexts
I have a particular specialism and passion for working with autistic young people (especially girls and young women), and those with AUDHD, ADHD or attentional differences.
Alongside my work in private practice, I often write about education, neurodiversity and wellbeing to enable better understanding and support for young people and families.
