About
Starting as a special needs teacher in Germany, I’ve spent over two decades working alongside children, families, and communities. Supporting those navigating emotional challenges, additional needs, and systems that don’t always fit, using brain science, regulation, and relationship-based approaches.
I have worked across very different contexts and cultures: in schools, community organisations, and NGOs in Germany, Ireland, Uganda, and England. With refugee and migrant children, children with additional needs and learning disabilities, complex and sensory needs, neurodivergent children, children with trauma backgrounds, and adults with learning disabilities.
I set up and managed inclusive provisions and special-needs departments, outreach programmes, and parenting support. I worked at global and community-based organisations, national rehabilitation centres and hospitals, as well as at international and local schools serving children the system had overlooked or could not accommodate.
My focus now is on supporting parents and educators to understand behaviour rather than manage it, to build emotional resilience for themselves and the children, and to create calmer, more connected family lives and schools.
When parents and teachers are supported, everything changes for the child. My work is based on values of inclusion, connection, and dignity.
I combine children’s mental health and emotional-regulation strategies, disability and SEND expertise, trauma-informed practice, and practical, real-life support. I see the whole system, not just the child. I offer online and face to face support, and tailor resources specifically to your child and family setting.
Education
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MSc Children's and Adolescent's mental health and wellbeing Anglia Ruskin University 2024-2025
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MA Disability Studies Liverpool Hope University 2016-2019
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MEd Inclusive Education University of Cologne 2003-2006
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BA Special Needs Education University of Cologne 1998-2003