As an education expert and a neurodiversity specialist, I provide a bespoke service to young people, their parents and schools around the world. With expertise, compassion and great care, I work to restore joy to how young people feel in life and learning.

After gaining my first degree in Education and English Literature at Cambridge University in 1994, I started my career as a primary school teacher. I returned to Cambridge in 1999 to complete a Masters degree with an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) scholarship and then a PhD, both in Education. My doctoral research was focused on understanding parents' experiences of working with education professionals when their child is struggling in school, and ultimately how to develop better frameworks for establishing authentic parent-professional partnerships. The insights and understandings that I gained from that time, continue to inspire and inform the way I work to this day.

I now work solely in private practice but over the course of my career, I have worked in a range of educational settings and almost always with a lead inclusion/advisory role. For the last eight years of my in-school career I was at Harrow School, and for much of this time led their provision for boys who have additional educational needs. Alongside my work with young people, families and schools, I have continued to write, cascading support and guidance to parents, educators and society at large.

Pre- and post- diagnostic work, young people who experience anxiety around learning or in a school context, complex cases often intersecting with mental health challenges, and situations which involve boarding school settings are areas of specialism. My expertise and passion also especially lies with young people who are autistic (especially girls and young women), have ADHD or attentional issues, and/or experience specific learning differences such as dyslexia or dyspraxia.

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