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Network
The LAH Network is comprised of survivor activists, community advocates and multidisciplinary practitioners from various backgrounds.
The Network has four CIC Directors, two operational and two consultants, who work alongside a Coordinating Group (CG) responsible for the management of the Network based on proactive collaboration and co-production between survivors and professionals. Our Network Members also play an important role in developing our activities and resources via consultations, experience sharing and ideas to bring our communities together and make London a truly ACE-aware metropolis.
Learn about our roles, passions and commitments below and get in touch if you would like to contribute to our work.
Meet Us
Leading Members
Judith Rees
Safeguarding Team Lead
Judith is Director of Operations at The For Baby's Sake Trust. She took up this role in July 2015, having previously worked in the NHS for 33 years. Over this time she was a Staff Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor, Practice Teacher, Safeguarding Children's Nurse and Team Leader for Health Visitors and then led the Family Nurse Partnership Team in Hertfordshire before joining the Trust. She completed her MSc in Child Protection and Child Welfare at the University of Hertfordshire and her passion for early intervention and safeguarding in relation to domestic abuse along with her training, supervision and safeguarding skills are now being put to excellent use in For Baby’s Sake.
https://www.forbabyssake.org.uk
https://www.forbabyssake.org.uk
Judith is Director of Operations at The For Baby's Sake Trust. She took up this role in July 2015, having previously worked in the NHS for 33 years. Over this time she was a Staff Nurse, Midwife, Health Visitor, Practice Teacher, Safeguarding Children's Nurse and Team Leader for Health Visitors and then led the Family Nurse Partnership Team in Hertfordshire before joining the Trust. She completed her MSc in Child Protection and Child Welfare at the University of Hertfordshire and her passion for early intervention and safeguarding in relation to domestic abuse along with her training, supervision and safeguarding skills are now being put to excellent use in For Baby’s Sake.
https://www.forbabyssake.org.uk
https://www.forbabyssake.org.uk
Vittoria De Meo
Co-Production Lead
Vittoria is an active campaigner of mental health and is passionate about supporting people to have a say in the mental health services they receive. She is an Independent mental health advisor, workshop’s facilitator and a mentor with coaching skills.
Vittoria works with a variety of organisations including Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS providers and the Royal College of Psychiatrist. She co-facilitates away days, educational sessions and training to hospital staff, particularly emergency department staff and mental health nurses. She has been invited to various Conferences as a speaker. Her main topics: Self-empowerment, how do you define compassion, searching for a meaning and purpose in life and self-awareness.
She is the founder of The Happiness Corner model: ‘The Happiness Corner is the embodiment of my life experiences, the different techniques and modules I learned and the right answer to an unwavering passion for elevating the lives of others and help them make progress’.
In 2019, she founded FOR WOMEN CIC whose mission is to assist and encourage women to strive for wellness in all areas of their lives and to create spaces where women can support and encourage each other through their lived experience. So far, she has facilitated over 100 sessions to over 300 women coming from different cultures and background.
She joined the London ACEs Hub in 2019 as an expert by experience and is now a proactive member of its Coordinating Group.
Learn more about Vittoria's work outside the LAH here:
https://www.forwomengroup.org.uk/
Vittoria is an active campaigner of mental health and is passionate about supporting people to have a say in the mental health services they receive. She is an Independent mental health advisor, workshop’s facilitator and a mentor with coaching skills.
Vittoria works with a variety of organisations including Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS providers and the Royal College of Psychiatrist. She co-facilitates away days, educational sessions and training to hospital staff, particularly emergency department staff and mental health nurses. She has been invited to various Conferences as a speaker. Her main topics: Self-empowerment, how do you define compassion, searching for a meaning and purpose in life and self-awareness.
She is the founder of The Happiness Corner model: ‘The Happiness Corner is the embodiment of my life experiences, the different techniques and modules I learned and the right answer to an unwavering passion for elevating the lives of others and help them make progress’.
In 2019, she founded FOR WOMEN CIC whose mission is to assist and encourage women to strive for wellness in all areas of their lives and to create spaces where women can support and encourage each other through their lived experience. So far, she has facilitated over 100 sessions to over 300 women coming from different cultures and background.
She joined the London ACEs Hub in 2019 as an expert by experience and is now a proactive member of its Coordinating Group.
Learn more about Vittoria's work outside the LAH here:
https://www.forwomengroup.org.uk/
CIC Operational Directors
CIC Consultant Directors
Tiane Graziottin
Operational Director, LAH Co-Founder
Tiane is a Brazilian psychologist with an MSc in Counselling who has been working for over twenty-five years in clinical, educational, and community settings in diverse contexts.
She is a person-centred practitioner with a passion for inclusive and empowering practices and communities.
Tiane has worked in London since 2005 in the areas of substance misuse, mental health, and family and young people’s support.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma-informed care have been an important focus of her work since 2017. She is one of the founders of the London ACEs Hub (LAH) and has been proactively involved in developing the network and its activities since the creation of the group in 2019.
In July 2021, Tiane became one of the founding directors of the LAH Community Interest Company.
She remains committed to making the LAH a lively and creative organic network that nurtures and welcomes multiple voices and experiences, and promotes ACEs awareness and resilience throughout Greater London's communities and beyond.
Tiane is a Brazilian psychologist with an MSc in Counselling who has been working for over twenty-five years in clinical, educational, and community settings in diverse contexts.
She is a person-centred practitioner with a passion for inclusive and empowering practices and communities.
Tiane has worked in London since 2005 in the areas of substance misuse, mental health, and family and young people’s support.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma-informed care have been an important focus of her work since 2017. She is one of the founders of the London ACEs Hub (LAH) and has been proactively involved in developing the network and its activities since the creation of the group in 2019.
In July 2021, Tiane became one of the founding directors of the LAH Community Interest Company.
She remains committed to making the LAH a lively and creative organic network that nurtures and welcomes multiple voices and experiences, and promotes ACEs awareness and resilience throughout Greater London's communities and beyond.
Joanna Oliver
Operational Director, Racial Justice Co-Lead
Joanna Oliver has a diverse professional and educational background, in a range of sectors including
universities, charities, parent support groups, social care and therapeutic communities, underpinned by a degree in Advertising, Media and Marketing, a Masters degree in Therapeutic Child Care and a Masters degree in Education. Research experience includes Masters level research in race and ethnicity in therapeutic work, Doctoral research in collaborative working in services for children, young people and families and current Doctoral research focused upon black young men with autism and their experience of the criminal justice system. More recently, Joanna undertook narrative research, to explore the stories of black and brown women, who have experienced the removal of their children to Local Authority care. As a lecturer, Joanna has taught on a BA (hons) programme in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring, including modules in Therapeutic Work with children and young people and Working with Clients in groups, in Equality and Diversity, MA level module in Equality and Social Justice and foundation studies in Education. Joanna holds professional qualifications in vocational assessment, supervision and FE teaching. Joanna’s experience includes working with care leavers, delivering professional training, including culture, race and identity with foster carers and DEI training for a recruitment agency. Her academic career led to her speaking at conferences in European universities, including Milan, Padua, Thessaloniki and Seville and the UK. Joanna has developed a range of professional supervision and therapeutic mentoring programmes, mainly related to personal and professional growth and development, and a funding bid mentoring programme, to consolidate 15 years of tender and bid writing experience. Joanna first became interested in the work of the LAH, through their Racial Justice series and has remained a champion ever since, with a particular interest in the intersect between race as a potential source of trauma, alongside other ACEs. Joanna is also the LAH Racial Justice Co-Lead with Derek Williams.
Joanna Oliver has a diverse professional and educational background, in a range of sectors including
universities, charities, parent support groups, social care and therapeutic communities, underpinned by a degree in Advertising, Media and Marketing, a Masters degree in Therapeutic Child Care and a Masters degree in Education. Research experience includes Masters level research in race and ethnicity in therapeutic work, Doctoral research in collaborative working in services for children, young people and families and current Doctoral research focused upon black young men with autism and their experience of the criminal justice system. More recently, Joanna undertook narrative research, to explore the stories of black and brown women, who have experienced the removal of their children to Local Authority care. As a lecturer, Joanna has taught on a BA (hons) programme in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring, including modules in Therapeutic Work with children and young people and Working with Clients in groups, in Equality and Diversity, MA level module in Equality and Social Justice and foundation studies in Education. Joanna holds professional qualifications in vocational assessment, supervision and FE teaching. Joanna’s experience includes working with care leavers, delivering professional training, including culture, race and identity with foster carers and DEI training for a recruitment agency. Her academic career led to her speaking at conferences in European universities, including Milan, Padua, Thessaloniki and Seville and the UK. Joanna has developed a range of professional supervision and therapeutic mentoring programmes, mainly related to personal and professional growth and development, and a funding bid mentoring programme, to consolidate 15 years of tender and bid writing experience. Joanna first became interested in the work of the LAH, through their Racial Justice series and has remained a champion ever since, with a particular interest in the intersect between race as a potential source of trauma, alongside other ACEs. Joanna is also the LAH Racial Justice Co-Lead with Derek Williams.
Derek Williams
Consultant Director, Racial Justice Lead
Derek Williams is a Wellbeing Practitioner. He has a wealth of experience in working with communities and young people and is keen to unite with anyone who is of a similar mindset.
As a former professional boxer, he became the Commonwealth and European Heavyweight Champion.
Derek now uses his success as a champion, to deliver motivational talks around the country, where he is able to empower young people and to motivate employees within business organisations and corporations.
Derek is the Chairman at The Pedro Club in Hackney, which is a youth club that serves the Community and young people from the ages of 16 – 21.
Derek has been interested in the progress of Black Lives Matter and is hoping to see more people from the black and ethnic minorities being given equal opportunities and progression across all fields including, Media, Law and in Government/Legislation so that there is better representation for the people that they serve.
Derek set up the Parents Against Crime (PAC) Campaign to tackle youth violence especially in the local communities and ending the County Lines operations which is a major concern for law enforcement.
London ACEs Hub is doing amazing work and Derek is happy to be a part of this team which has such a great variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and activists.
Derek Williams is a Wellbeing Practitioner. He has a wealth of experience in working with communities and young people and is keen to unite with anyone who is of a similar mindset.
As a former professional boxer, he became the Commonwealth and European Heavyweight Champion.
Derek now uses his success as a champion, to deliver motivational talks around the country, where he is able to empower young people and to motivate employees within business organisations and corporations.
Derek is the Chairman at The Pedro Club in Hackney, which is a youth club that serves the Community and young people from the ages of 16 – 21.
Derek has been interested in the progress of Black Lives Matter and is hoping to see more people from the black and ethnic minorities being given equal opportunities and progression across all fields including, Media, Law and in Government/Legislation so that there is better representation for the people that they serve.
Derek set up the Parents Against Crime (PAC) Campaign to tackle youth violence especially in the local communities and ending the County Lines operations which is a major concern for law enforcement.
London ACEs Hub is doing amazing work and Derek is happy to be a part of this team which has such a great variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and activists.
Jonathon Tomlinson
Consultant Director
Jonathon has been a GP in Hackney for over 20 years and has been taught about how life experiences affect the development, experience and meaning of illness and disease throughout the life course by sticking with the same patients over all that time. He expects there to be a lot more lessons to learn over the next 20 years or so. He writes about the relationships between doctors, patients and politics on his blog: https://abetternhs.net/ and can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/mellojonny
Jonathon has been a GP in Hackney for over 20 years and has been taught about how life experiences affect the development, experience and meaning of illness and disease throughout the life course by sticking with the same patients over all that time. He expects there to be a lot more lessons to learn over the next 20 years or so. He writes about the relationships between doctors, patients and politics on his blog: https://abetternhs.net/ and can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/mellojonny
Network Members
Roger Grimshaw
LAH Co-Founder & Former Operational Director
Dr Roger Grimshaw is currently Research Director at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies based in London.
Roger has sustained a long career in applied social research working in voluntary sector organisations concerned with children and with crime and justice. He was responsible for the My Story project which asked young people convicted of grave crimes such as murder and rape to tell the stories of trauma and violence in their childhoods.
He has published evidence reviews on knife and gun crime which analyse the evidence for public health approaches compared with the results of criminal justice.
Roger believes that trauma in childhood forms a key element in any full understanding of violence among young people. At the same time he is conscious of the traumatic impact of criminal justice interventions that isolate and target vulnerable people exposing them to further risk. The toxic effect of racism must be part of this analysis. He is interested in research and policy initiatives which bring to light underlying trauma and identify long-term, collaborative ways of preventing violence.
Roger says: "All Londoners have a right to understand what ACEs mean for their health, their services, and their communities. The urgency of our task is profound.
I came to this understanding after years working for charities seeking to apply knowledge towards solving problems in children’s services and criminal justice.
Listening to young people talking about their experiences of trauma and violence convinced me that this awareness was for everybody, not just for specialists.
I feel privileged to be a founder member of the LAH and now co-director of the London ACEs Hub Community Interest Company. Working with others, I hope we can demonstrate the value of ACEs science and practice for all Londoners."
Learn more about Roger's work in the link below.
Dr Roger Grimshaw is currently Research Director at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies based in London.
Roger has sustained a long career in applied social research working in voluntary sector organisations concerned with children and with crime and justice. He was responsible for the My Story project which asked young people convicted of grave crimes such as murder and rape to tell the stories of trauma and violence in their childhoods.
He has published evidence reviews on knife and gun crime which analyse the evidence for public health approaches compared with the results of criminal justice.
Roger believes that trauma in childhood forms a key element in any full understanding of violence among young people. At the same time he is conscious of the traumatic impact of criminal justice interventions that isolate and target vulnerable people exposing them to further risk. The toxic effect of racism must be part of this analysis. He is interested in research and policy initiatives which bring to light underlying trauma and identify long-term, collaborative ways of preventing violence.
Roger says: "All Londoners have a right to understand what ACEs mean for their health, their services, and their communities. The urgency of our task is profound.
I came to this understanding after years working for charities seeking to apply knowledge towards solving problems in children’s services and criminal justice.
Listening to young people talking about their experiences of trauma and violence convinced me that this awareness was for everybody, not just for specialists.
I feel privileged to be a founder member of the LAH and now co-director of the London ACEs Hub Community Interest Company. Working with others, I hope we can demonstrate the value of ACEs science and practice for all Londoners."
Learn more about Roger's work in the link below.
Leroy Logan
LAH Co-Founder & Former Consultant Director
Leroy was a founder of the Black Police Association Charitable Trust and one of the founders of the Black Police Association. Now retired from the Met Police, Leroy is perhaps one of the UK’s most highly decorated and most well known black police officers.
Leroy is a highly respected and well regarded commentator on policing in black communities and fundamentally believes that there is still much work to do in creating a more equitable and fair criminal justice system.
Leroy's autobiography titled "Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop" was published in September 2020. His journey from a young scientist to a Met police officer has inspired the film "Red, White & Blue", part of the Small Axe series by the director Steve McQueen, where John Boyega plays Leroy. The film premiered on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 29 November 2020.
Leroy states: "I’m honoured to be a part of the LAH since its inception in 2019, because it identifies with the importance of an ACE’s informed approach to public services, in particular trauma informed policing. LAH is at the cutting edge of these issues and I truly believe it is in the process of being one of the most significant change agents in the new era of trauma informed public services.".
Leroy was a founder of the Black Police Association Charitable Trust and one of the founders of the Black Police Association. Now retired from the Met Police, Leroy is perhaps one of the UK’s most highly decorated and most well known black police officers.
Leroy is a highly respected and well regarded commentator on policing in black communities and fundamentally believes that there is still much work to do in creating a more equitable and fair criminal justice system.
Leroy's autobiography titled "Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop" was published in September 2020. His journey from a young scientist to a Met police officer has inspired the film "Red, White & Blue", part of the Small Axe series by the director Steve McQueen, where John Boyega plays Leroy. The film premiered on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 29 November 2020.
Leroy states: "I’m honoured to be a part of the LAH since its inception in 2019, because it identifies with the importance of an ACE’s informed approach to public services, in particular trauma informed policing. LAH is at the cutting edge of these issues and I truly believe it is in the process of being one of the most significant change agents in the new era of trauma informed public services.".
Simon Partridge
LAH Co-Founder & Former Consultant Director
Simon Partridge is a freelance writer and researcher – he “missed” formal higher education. He is also a survivor of years of orthodox psychoanalysis, and complex trauma associated with his Brit upper-class background and private boarding schools [age 6-17]. He has covered: community broadcasting; devolved politics; the British-Irish conflict; ethno-cultural mingling across Our Isles; the psycho-biological consequences of upper class child rearing and boarding schools; inter-generational war trauma due to PTSD; and developmental trauma/Complex-PTSD. He is a devotee of John Bowlby, Judith Herman and Donald Winnicott – not to mention Vincent Felitti & Robert Anda.
Since 2017, inspired by the film “Resilience”, he has been focusing on the issues of “adverse childhood experiences” [ACEs]. This led to close involvement with the founding of the London ACEs Hub, encouraged by similar ventures in Wales and Scotland. Along the way he discovered that John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, unsurprisingly, had first used the term as long ago as 1981. This led to three related articles in the Attachment journal, June 2019 and July 2021 respectively, for which he writes. At 73, in semi-retirement, he continues to monitor the ACEs scene and feed relevant information to LAH as one of its Consultant Directors.
Read Simon's review of the book "The Deepest Well" by Nadine Burke Harris at the link below.
Simon Partridge is a freelance writer and researcher – he “missed” formal higher education. He is also a survivor of years of orthodox psychoanalysis, and complex trauma associated with his Brit upper-class background and private boarding schools [age 6-17]. He has covered: community broadcasting; devolved politics; the British-Irish conflict; ethno-cultural mingling across Our Isles; the psycho-biological consequences of upper class child rearing and boarding schools; inter-generational war trauma due to PTSD; and developmental trauma/Complex-PTSD. He is a devotee of John Bowlby, Judith Herman and Donald Winnicott – not to mention Vincent Felitti & Robert Anda.
Since 2017, inspired by the film “Resilience”, he has been focusing on the issues of “adverse childhood experiences” [ACEs]. This led to close involvement with the founding of the London ACEs Hub, encouraged by similar ventures in Wales and Scotland. Along the way he discovered that John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, unsurprisingly, had first used the term as long ago as 1981. This led to three related articles in the Attachment journal, June 2019 and July 2021 respectively, for which he writes. At 73, in semi-retirement, he continues to monitor the ACEs scene and feed relevant information to LAH as one of its Consultant Directors.
Read Simon's review of the book "The Deepest Well" by Nadine Burke Harris at the link below.
Felicity De Zulueta
LAH Co-Founder & Member
Felicity de Zulueta is an Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Traumatic Studies at Kings College London. She developed and headed both the Department of Psychotherapy at Charing Cross Hospital and the Traumatic Stress Service in the Maudsley Hospital. Daughter of a WHO Malaria doctor, she was born in the civil war in Colombia and brought up in the jungles of Borneo, French speaking Switzerland, British ruled Kenya and still peaceful Lebanon before coming to the UK, Felicity aimed to provide a culturally sensitive psychotherapeutic approach to the treatment of individuals and families suffering from effects of trauma due to Childhood Adverse Experiences, torture and war abroad and racist violence in the UK. It was particularly with the latter in mind that she joined Simon Partridge in developing the London ACEs Hub in order to promote ACEs and a Trauma Informed Care approach in the London community, on the lines of the work being carried out in Scotland, the first ACE aware Nation.
Felicity is an international lecturer in the field of trauma and ACEs as well as author of “From Pain to violence, the traumatic roots of destructiveness” (2ndedition, 2006) and many papers on the subject as well as a TEDx lecture on you tube.
Felicity de Zulueta is an Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Traumatic Studies at Kings College London. She developed and headed both the Department of Psychotherapy at Charing Cross Hospital and the Traumatic Stress Service in the Maudsley Hospital. Daughter of a WHO Malaria doctor, she was born in the civil war in Colombia and brought up in the jungles of Borneo, French speaking Switzerland, British ruled Kenya and still peaceful Lebanon before coming to the UK, Felicity aimed to provide a culturally sensitive psychotherapeutic approach to the treatment of individuals and families suffering from effects of trauma due to Childhood Adverse Experiences, torture and war abroad and racist violence in the UK. It was particularly with the latter in mind that she joined Simon Partridge in developing the London ACEs Hub in order to promote ACEs and a Trauma Informed Care approach in the London community, on the lines of the work being carried out in Scotland, the first ACE aware Nation.
Felicity is an international lecturer in the field of trauma and ACEs as well as author of “From Pain to violence, the traumatic roots of destructiveness” (2ndedition, 2006) and many papers on the subject as well as a TEDx lecture on you tube.
Mpume Mpofu
LAH Member & Former Racial Justice Co-Lead
Mpume Mpofu is the Programme Director for the iCoN service at Trauma-Informed Practice Environments Ltd (Tipe). He specialises in designing and translating individual and organisational transformation aspirations into trauma-informed, attachment-based and compassionate practice.
He designed the iCoN programme (www.creatingourtipe.com) in conjunction with various youth justice teams in the Midlands. Elements of the iCoN programme have now been applied in London and nationally with services for children and young people.
Mpume is passionate about civil rights, especially associated with children and young people from under-served communities. He operates by Ubuntu principles in his practice when appropriate. To this end, he has embarked on a Master’s in Arts programme to develop new and different knowledge about the circumstances of children and young people from immigrant sub-Saharan African backgrounds.
Mpume is a father, Christian and (in borrowing the words of Sting) a legal alien Ndebele tribesman living and working in London.
Learn more abour Mpume's work outside the LAH at the link below.
Mpume Mpofu is the Programme Director for the iCoN service at Trauma-Informed Practice Environments Ltd (Tipe). He specialises in designing and translating individual and organisational transformation aspirations into trauma-informed, attachment-based and compassionate practice.
He designed the iCoN programme (www.creatingourtipe.com) in conjunction with various youth justice teams in the Midlands. Elements of the iCoN programme have now been applied in London and nationally with services for children and young people.
Mpume is passionate about civil rights, especially associated with children and young people from under-served communities. He operates by Ubuntu principles in his practice when appropriate. To this end, he has embarked on a Master’s in Arts programme to develop new and different knowledge about the circumstances of children and young people from immigrant sub-Saharan African backgrounds.
Mpume is a father, Christian and (in borrowing the words of Sting) a legal alien Ndebele tribesman living and working in London.
Learn more abour Mpume's work outside the LAH at the link below.
Amanda McIntyre
LAH Member
Amanda McIntyre is CEO of The For Baby’s Sake Trust. She was the charity’s first employee and led the multi-agency and interdisciplinary teamwork between experts to create the charity’s ground-breaking programme, For Baby’s Sake. This trauma-informed and attachment-focused programme works with both parents, starting in pregnancy, to break cycles of domestic abuse and create the best possible start in life for their baby. An independent evaluation of For Baby’s Sake, led by King’s College London, found that it is the first programme to address key limitations of responses to domestic abuse.
Amanda is from Belfast. She studied economics at Reading University and moved to London, working for the CBI for 18 years, including as Head of Modernising Government. She was Public Affairs Director at Accord plc and Director of the Employment Related Services Association. Her career has focused on bringing together the public, private and voluntary sectors to improve public services and strengthen local communities. Amanda is a primary school Chair of Governors in Ponders End, Enfield.
You can hear Amanda and others talking about For Baby’s Sake during a webinar to launch a powerful short animated film in which parents tell their stories:
Amanda McIntyre is CEO of The For Baby’s Sake Trust. She was the charity’s first employee and led the multi-agency and interdisciplinary teamwork between experts to create the charity’s ground-breaking programme, For Baby’s Sake. This trauma-informed and attachment-focused programme works with both parents, starting in pregnancy, to break cycles of domestic abuse and create the best possible start in life for their baby. An independent evaluation of For Baby’s Sake, led by King’s College London, found that it is the first programme to address key limitations of responses to domestic abuse.
Amanda is from Belfast. She studied economics at Reading University and moved to London, working for the CBI for 18 years, including as Head of Modernising Government. She was Public Affairs Director at Accord plc and Director of the Employment Related Services Association. Her career has focused on bringing together the public, private and voluntary sectors to improve public services and strengthen local communities. Amanda is a primary school Chair of Governors in Ponders End, Enfield.
You can hear Amanda and others talking about For Baby’s Sake during a webinar to launch a powerful short animated film in which parents tell their stories:
Elena Alexandrou
LAH Member
Elena Alexandrou is a Clinical Psychologist based in East London with over fifteen years' experience in the NHS. She currently leads on the implementation of trauma informed care and psychological therapies with adults who present with complex trauma and dissociation aspiring to empower communities through therapy, wider system change and social action.
She has worked on a number of projects with health, forensic, social care and charity sector partners including alongside young men impacted by youth violence, with survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire and in specialist services for refugees and asylum seekers. She trains others in psychosocial trauma responses and has special interest in the experiences of people understood through a psychosis lens, the links between poverty and distress and healthcare staff wellbeing. She is committed to the advancement of EMDR therapy for people with early life trauma, a Chartered member of the BPS and an affiliated supervisor for the London and Thames Valley clinical psychology doctorate courses at University College London, Royal Holloway and the University of East London. Elena believes that ACEs and trauma are everybody’s business, that the body is our greatest vessel for healing and continuously challenges herself to go beyond professional borders to be the best humanitarian possible! Follow her on Twitter: @Elena_londonCP Check out her LinkedIn profile here:
Elena Alexandrou is a Clinical Psychologist based in East London with over fifteen years' experience in the NHS. She currently leads on the implementation of trauma informed care and psychological therapies with adults who present with complex trauma and dissociation aspiring to empower communities through therapy, wider system change and social action.
She has worked on a number of projects with health, forensic, social care and charity sector partners including alongside young men impacted by youth violence, with survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire and in specialist services for refugees and asylum seekers. She trains others in psychosocial trauma responses and has special interest in the experiences of people understood through a psychosis lens, the links between poverty and distress and healthcare staff wellbeing. She is committed to the advancement of EMDR therapy for people with early life trauma, a Chartered member of the BPS and an affiliated supervisor for the London and Thames Valley clinical psychology doctorate courses at University College London, Royal Holloway and the University of East London. Elena believes that ACEs and trauma are everybody’s business, that the body is our greatest vessel for healing and continuously challenges herself to go beyond professional borders to be the best humanitarian possible! Follow her on Twitter: @Elena_londonCP Check out her LinkedIn profile here:
Eli Anderson
LAH Member
Eli Anderson is the Director of StoryAID, applying storytelling, poetry and
narrative coaching to enhance the dignity, equality, & diversity of those
currently working, studying, and supported by the Healthcare & Education
sector. The purpose of this work is to ensure people feel empowered, gain
confidence to tell their story, reduce their social isolation and to reconnect and
rediscover a balanced life.
He has worked with Public and Commercial institutions to explore a more
personalised and culturally appropriate healthcare and education. In addition,
delivering work with children, young people and adults affected by mental
health and those with complex learning difficulties to explore a range of
challenging social issues and intergeneration activities.
He is a published author and poet, and has written for theatre and film.
Current workshops and presentations, include Introductory and advanced
Storytelling courses and Intergenerational practice, etc.
Eli Anderson is the Director of StoryAID, applying storytelling, poetry and
narrative coaching to enhance the dignity, equality, & diversity of those
currently working, studying, and supported by the Healthcare & Education
sector. The purpose of this work is to ensure people feel empowered, gain
confidence to tell their story, reduce their social isolation and to reconnect and
rediscover a balanced life.
He has worked with Public and Commercial institutions to explore a more
personalised and culturally appropriate healthcare and education. In addition,
delivering work with children, young people and adults affected by mental
health and those with complex learning difficulties to explore a range of
challenging social issues and intergeneration activities.
He is a published author and poet, and has written for theatre and film.
Current workshops and presentations, include Introductory and advanced
Storytelling courses and Intergenerational practice, etc.
Emma Crace
LAH Member
Emma has over twenty five years of experience as a facilitator in the field of Wellbeing. She has collaborated with adults, young people and children in one-to-one and group contexts in clinical and education settings, hospitals, summer camps and communities.
Trauma-informed practice training has been essential in Emma’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual integration and balancing for over ten years. She is thankful for the learning undertaken in the course “Therapeutic Communication Skills and Community Wellbeing for Children, Young People, Families and Communities” with Wellbeing Education from the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She has also been hugely influenced by the incredible work with young people at the Lifebeat Uk, based on the Creative Community Model via the Partnership of Youth Empowerment Global.
In 2010, Emma came across Adverse Childhood Experiences initiated by Felliti & Anda. Fortunately, synchronicity in conversation has brought the amazing group of practitioners and survivors of the London ACEs Hub together in the past two years, midwifing this important Hub at a critical transitional time of our lives globally.
With a personal ACE count of 8, Emma’s journey is daily balancing internal experiences with honing self-nurture. Alongside developing a forged lens for thriving, resilience, flourishing and reaching for joyful open hearted moments in the mundane.
Emma has over twenty five years of experience as a facilitator in the field of Wellbeing. She has collaborated with adults, young people and children in one-to-one and group contexts in clinical and education settings, hospitals, summer camps and communities.
Trauma-informed practice training has been essential in Emma’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual integration and balancing for over ten years. She is thankful for the learning undertaken in the course “Therapeutic Communication Skills and Community Wellbeing for Children, Young People, Families and Communities” with Wellbeing Education from the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She has also been hugely influenced by the incredible work with young people at the Lifebeat Uk, based on the Creative Community Model via the Partnership of Youth Empowerment Global.
In 2010, Emma came across Adverse Childhood Experiences initiated by Felliti & Anda. Fortunately, synchronicity in conversation has brought the amazing group of practitioners and survivors of the London ACEs Hub together in the past two years, midwifing this important Hub at a critical transitional time of our lives globally.
With a personal ACE count of 8, Emma’s journey is daily balancing internal experiences with honing self-nurture. Alongside developing a forged lens for thriving, resilience, flourishing and reaching for joyful open hearted moments in the mundane.
Jocelyne Quennell
LAH Member
Jocelyne Quennell has been working as a psychotherapist for over thirty years with all ages and stages of life and is former Principal of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE). She
has been responsible for postgraduate and undergraduate training in psychotherapy and the arts
therapies.
She has pioneered quality and standards in education, training, practice and research in the United
Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) for many years, where she was made an Honorary
Fellow. She has been the lead on Training Standards in the European Interdisciplinary Association for Therapeutic Services for Children and Young People (EIATSCYP) https://eiatscyp.com/ for ten years.
Jocelyne is committed to increasing access to effective therapeutic support which is culturally
attuned and responsive to the needs of young people. She was Clinical Director of a Schools Programme in 40 schools in London and works with Margot Sunderland at IATE. She worked with Camila Batmanghelidjh for 3 decades.
Jocelyne currently works with Oasis St Martins Village Tulse Hill ( https://oasisstmartins.org/), enabling creative approaches to therapeutic counselling. She
remains committed to embedded and creative therapeutic approaches in education for community
wellbeing.
Jocelyne Quennell has been working as a psychotherapist for over thirty years with all ages and stages of life and is former Principal of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE). She
has been responsible for postgraduate and undergraduate training in psychotherapy and the arts
therapies.
She has pioneered quality and standards in education, training, practice and research in the United
Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) for many years, where she was made an Honorary
Fellow. She has been the lead on Training Standards in the European Interdisciplinary Association for Therapeutic Services for Children and Young People (EIATSCYP) https://eiatscyp.com/ for ten years.
Jocelyne is committed to increasing access to effective therapeutic support which is culturally
attuned and responsive to the needs of young people. She was Clinical Director of a Schools Programme in 40 schools in London and works with Margot Sunderland at IATE. She worked with Camila Batmanghelidjh for 3 decades.
Jocelyne currently works with Oasis St Martins Village Tulse Hill ( https://oasisstmartins.org/), enabling creative approaches to therapeutic counselling. She
remains committed to embedded and creative therapeutic approaches in education for community
wellbeing.
Rebecca White
LAH Member and Former Network Secretary
Rebecca has a background in public health and psychology. She is particularly interested in how health systems, community-based services and communities themselves can enable the right circumstances for people to thrive. Most recently she has worked in policy and programme management for Body & Soul charity, focusing on embedding trauma-informed practice within and beyond the charity’s doors.
It was through this work that Rebecca came to know the London ACEs Hub (LAH) at its inception. LAH’s aim to promote trauma-informed and resilience-led practices across London connected with Rebecca’s passion for social justice and a desire to create lasting systemic change towards a healthier, more equitable society.
Rebecca has a background in public health and psychology. She is particularly interested in how health systems, community-based services and communities themselves can enable the right circumstances for people to thrive. Most recently she has worked in policy and programme management for Body & Soul charity, focusing on embedding trauma-informed practice within and beyond the charity’s doors.
It was through this work that Rebecca came to know the London ACEs Hub (LAH) at its inception. LAH’s aim to promote trauma-informed and resilience-led practices across London connected with Rebecca’s passion for social justice and a desire to create lasting systemic change towards a healthier, more equitable society.
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