Our Therapists

Sorcha is an Integrative Therapist that qualified in 2016 with Distinction from Interpsyche (based within the NHS and accredited by the BACP). She is registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Her specialisms are primarily Trauma and Attachment. She also has significant experience working with those that have experienced abuse.

Sorcha has significant experience of working with children and young people with SEN, particularly in the areas of ASD and Emotional & Behavioural needs. She also has experience of supporting Looked After Children and their carers.

Jutta has a Postgraduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy and is a Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and Member of the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (ASLTIP).

  Emma has worked with young people in many settings over the years; schools settings, therapeutic settings, in family’s homes and specialist provisions. Emma has worked with varying ages on 1-1 basis and in small group settings. She has gained many years of amazing experiences of working with varying levels of need and crisis. 

Emma qualified as a registered social worker in 2013 and still maintains her social work registration. Emma has also completed her Certificate in Therapeutic Play and is also a registered THRIVE practitioner. Emma’s social work training has equipped her with the skills to remain open minded, approachable and practical when working with young people. This means any work completed is on a bespoke basis dependant on the young persons needs. Every individual is unique and therefore any work is treated in this manner.

Caroline qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2013 she worked within a specialist High Functioning Autism Adult community service, then started working within Medium forensic services, and then progressing to clinical lead. 

Caroline is trained in sensory integration, sensory attachment interventions and Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation. Caroline is passionate about working and supporting the whole family and all those involved in the child’s care.

As part of her service at Oak Therapies Caroline works within SEN schools, provides training, delivers 1:1 and group sessions, consultations, assessments and reports. Caroline is focussed on supporting SEN children in achieving their goals and supporting their families. 

Nicki’s experience started when she worked in a Play School and as a Teaching Assistant in a primary school setting. Whilst working, engaging and observing children in their play and other interventions she became interested in children’s emotional wellbeing, their attachment styles and neuroscience, causing them to disengage emotionally or socially at times. This presented as behavioural changes and emotional disengagement. This is when she began training as a therapist in 2012. 

  Play and Creative Arts therapy allows the pupil to project their inner thoughts and feelings onto a medium of play and creativity, whilst providing them a safe space while processing their internal world at a deeper level. Projection is a way of safely disconnecting them from their unconscious process coupled with the therapeutic relationship, trust and in time bridging the gap to allow their process to become conscious.