Janine Smith is a highly skilled and experienced registered mental health nurse, specialising in Child & Adolescent mental health. She has over 25 years experience working with young people and their families, predominantly within NHS services including a specialist inpatient unit and community settings. She has recently retired from her role in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health Crisis Team and is now working in independent practice. She has previously also worked in a specialist Looked After Children Team. She works therapeutically with individuals, parents/carers, and the systems around them, using a range of interventions including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive 




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​​​​Emma is an independent specialist social worker/therapist with over 25 years experience working within the social care sector, 7 of which in a therapeutic social work team and 8 years based in a CAMHS Children in Care team. She has undertaken a wide range of roles within statutory and voluntary sectors and has undertaken further training in a range of specialist skills such as Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, CAPA, Attachment models, Sensory Integration Awareness, Emotion Coaching and self-harm awareness.  She practises from an approach that is based within a systemic and trauma informed attachment model offering individual work with children and adolescents, consultations to professionals, supporting residential children's care 

Julie's other passion for Non Violent Resistance (NVR) work began at this time, after attending a conference and listening to parents who had been part of an NVR programme.  NVR has formed an important part of Julie's work both in practice working alongside parents and professionally, co-facilitating NVR Informed Training to professionals with her colleague Helen.


Julie retired in 2020 and but has since rejoined the world of work and has continued to develop her practice.  She continues to be inspired and to learn from those she works alongside and it's this passion and enthusiasm that she takes into her work.  When she is not working, she enjoys developing her skills in painting and drawing and family life.


particular, assessment around developmental trauma and attachment and trauma related difficulties from childhood through to adulthood. Her therapeutic approaches include attachment-based therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP – level 1), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR). She is trained in the assessment of Autism across both children and adults, with particular experience in assessments with additional complexities regarding a developmental trauma history. Her aim is to provide a comprehensive, meaningful assessment for individuals and their support networks. This can then be used to develop an understanding around an individual’s support needs and can provide guidance moving forwards.

Katie has experience of providing supervision and consultation within the NHS and social care services. She has led on the development and facilitation of reflective practice groups across services, working with professional groups, Multi-disciplinary Teams and Care Providers. Support has included complex case discussion, psychological formulation, reflection on clinical practice and understanding systemic influences and challenges.

Theraplay (Level 1), Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment, Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents, systemic practice and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.


Lucy can offer psychological assessment and psychological formulation to develop therapeutic recommendations in complex cases. She is experienced in working with individuals, families and staff teams, including through consultation and supervision.

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Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). In addition to individual work, she delivers groups interventions to young people as well as consultations to professionals. She has a specialist expertise and passion in working alongside emotionally dysregulated young people, helping them to make sense of themselves and how to effectively manage intense and distressing emotions which can often lead to self-harming behaviours.

children and through the development of a trusting child-therapist relationship, play therapy helps children to access and process their innermost thoughts and feelings, promoting healing and growth. Rachel also supports parents and carers to understand and respond to the needs of the children in their care.

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Melissa Blockley is a qualified social worker, working part-time as a Social Work Practice Consultant (therapeutic lead) and part-time with Synchrony Psychology Ltd. She is Theraplay trained to level 2 and a DDP certified practitioner and has attended training in various topics around attachment and trauma including sensory processing, the neurosequential model of therapeutics, and sexual exploitation and its links to early adversity. She offers direct therapeutic work to children, young people and families and has developed a 3-tiered, DDP-informed model of therapeutic life story work. She also provides training and workshops to networks around attachment and trauma.

homes, offering supervision and counselling to a broad range of professionals across social care, health and education settings. Alongside this work, Emma supports the application of an established school-based project commissioned by health partners to provide emotional health training and mental health support for a large number of schools within the Staffordshire area.

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​Rachel is a qualified play therapist and registered member of the BACP with several years experience of working mainly in mainstream and special schools. She is also a respite foster carer for Lincolnshire County Council. Rachel has undertaken post-qualifying training relating to developmental trauma as well as a Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Counselling for Adolescents. In addition to working in schools, Rachel has also worked as a clinical volunteer for a children's bereavement service. Rachel works predominantly 1:1 with children within a child-centred, non-directive model of play therapy. Play is the natural language of 

​Dr Zoe Webb (BSc, PhD, DClinPsy) is a qualified clinical psychologist with 15 years experience of working with young people & their families. Having worked previously within Child and Adolescent Mental Health services in the NHS, she has been in full-time independent practice since 2015. 


Zoe works therapeutically with both young people and adults, individually, dyadically or systemically on a range of mental health & well-being difficulties (inc. anxiety, depression, anger, self-harm etc..) with a specialist interest in developmental trauma & attachment difficulties. She is trained in the core therapeutic models used within clinical psychology practice (inc. CBT, systemic, and narrative) and has completed additional training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP; certified practitioner), Theraplay (to level 2), the Dynamic Maturational Model of attachment, The Meaning of the Child, Child Attachment & Play Assessment (CAPA), and EMDR (level 1 & child). She is able to undertake psychological/cognitive assessments with young people; AIM 2 assessments (re. sexually harmful behaviours) and has specialist skills in developing comprehensive psychological formulations for networks that can assist in developing a better understanding of an individual's complex needs to inform decision-making around their care & promote healthy psychological well-being.


​Zoe has designed and delivered a range of training programmes on topics pertinent to understanding developmental trauma & the mental health needs of young people, available to parents, carers, and professionals within social care, education and health. She provides supervision & consultation to networks.

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​​All members of the team at Synchrony Psychology Ltd firmly believe that the young person needs to held at the centre of all the work that they carry out. They are all committed to high standards of professional conduct and confidentiality and will work towards achieving the best outcomes for young people, their families and professionals. They follow their ascribed codes of conduct according to their individual professions and qualifications and are in receipt of enhanced DBS checks. All the team are registered members of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and have professional liability insurance.

Dr Katie Fanning (BSc, MSc Health Pschology, DClinPsy) is a qualified clinical psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) with over 15 years’ clinical experience. She has worked with clients of all ages and has experience within both Child and adolescent Mental Health services and Specialist Adults Provisions, working within mental health services and with Neurodivergent populations. 


​Katie has specialist interests and experience providing assessment and therapeutic intervention for a range of psychological difficulties, in 

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Dr Lucy Redstone (BSc, D.Clin.Psy) is a qualified clinical psychologist with over ten years experience working with young people and their families. She has worked within NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, as well as with independent mental health, education and residential children's services. Her core clinical training included therapeutic models such as CBT and systemic models. She is passionate about working with a range of difficulties impacting emotional wellbeing and mental health. Lucy has a special interest in attachment-informed approaches and has completed additional training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (Level 2 with ongoing supervision), 





​​​After many years of working as a nurse, midwife and health visitor, Julie began to specialise in Children's mental health and in 2013 qualified as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist and subsequently a supervisor. Julie is accredited by The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice (AFT) and is a member of the UK Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP). Her passion for working with children, young people, and their families started in 2009 when she worked within children's mental health services. Since that time, she has worked within both community and specialist teams offering systemic work and systemic family psychotherapy.