Leia is a qualified Therapeutic Wellbeing Practitioner for children, young people & families. Specialising in early years, with 14 years of early years experience working in a variety of settings, including primary schools, children’s centres and private nurseries.
She has key-worked emotionally vulnerable young children facilitating the development of the child’s self-awareness, self-esteem, self-confidence, communication and social skills, emotional regulation, self-concept, agency, motivation, resilience and recovery to support the child in reaching their full potential.
Leia recognises parents’ and carers’ huge influence on their children’s emotional development and is passionate about facilitating the bonding and nurturing of parent-child relationships through every child’s language – play.
For Leia, it was a true meeting of minds between her and Sandy who are both dedicated to nurturing children’s emotional wellbeing through drama and storytelling. Leia, like Sandy, loves getting in touch with her own inner-child through creativity and play while providing a safe creative therapeutic space for children (and parents too!) to express themselves.
Leia trained with the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education. She is also a licenced Attachment Play Practitioner, trained by Clear Sky Children’s Charity to carry out their Baby Bonding, Toddler Bonding and Heart to Heart parent-child programmes, developed by Debi Maskell-Graham. Leia is also trained in using the Helicopter Stories approach.
