I completed an undergraduate degree in Human Psychology in 2007 and during this time worked within a specialist school for children who had a diagnosis of autism. As a result of my enjoyment working with this client group, I continued to provide respite care for families who had children diagnosed with autism whilst also working as an Assistant Psychologist at the National Autistic Society. It was during my time working as an Assistant Psychologist that I was introduced to Ayres Sensory Integration Intervention and decided to pursue a Masters degree in Occupational Therapy in order to undertake the postgraduate training in sensory integration. I have since trained as an Advanced Sensory Integration practitioner and undertaken Sensory Attachment Intervention training.

I have worked within an NHS community paediatrics team, an independent sensory integration clinic, and currently work at a community interest company that provides assessment and treatment for children who have been adopted and experienced developmental trauma as well as working as a Registered Intermediary supporting the police to interview children who have learning or mental health difficulties. I specialise in the area of attachment and developmental trauma, am currently on the practicum to train as a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist, and have a particular interest in the co-morbidity seen with autism and developmental trauma.

I joined Wellbeing in 2019 as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist – I graduated with an MSc in Speech and Language Therapy from University of Essex and have worked with Provide CIC ever since. I have worked with children with a range of  needs and have developed a number of specialist skills, including differential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, language disorders and speech sound disorders. I love meeting the children and young people and getting to know them.

I qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1996 after completing my BSc (Hons) in Birmingham. I came back to my home county of Essex to start my first post for the NHS in Mid Essex working with children with a range of communication needs. My focus area of work became preschool/ school age complex needs and autism. I moved on to work in Mansfield and also worked in London and Nottingham. Whilst having a family I continued some work as an Independent S&LT and volunteered for two military charities. In 2014 I came back to Essex to work in the Mid and West Essex area for Provide CIC, including work in autism assessment.

Ruth qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2000 and has specialised working in Paediatrics since 2002. During this time, she has worked in many different clinical settings in the community, including children’s developmental centres, hospitals, special needs schools, mainstream schools and within family homes. She has a wide experience assessing and treating children therapeutically with a range of difficulties and diagnoses. She has worked as part of the multi-disciplinary diagnostic team since 2008. She specialises in play, developmental delay, fine motor skills, children with social communication disorders, sensory, specialist equipment and children with complex needs.