Name: Tina

Role: Managing Director / Founder

Worked at The Link since: 2010

Favourite Food: 

Superpower of choice: 

Favourite TV show/ Film: 

A day in your role...

Name: Nathan

Role: Therapeutic Lead/Supervisor & Trainee Child Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

Worked at The Link since: September 2013

Favourite Food: Steak

Superpower of choice: Invulnerability

Favourite TV show/ Film: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

A day in your role…

Most of my day is spent working directly with children, young people and families to provide a variety of therapeutic interventions including, Systemic Family Practice, Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Furthermore I offer supervision and work with the other members of the senior management team to shape service delivery and support the other clinicians in their work.

Name: Sarah

Role: Operations Manager/Training Coordinator

Worked at The Link Since: October 2014

Favourite Food: Tagliatelle Carbonara

Superpower of Choice: Ability to control time

Favourite Film/TV show: The Heat

A day in the role:

 A typical day in the role involves overseeing, managing and developing the operational running of the staff and service here at The Link, screening referrals, monitoring of waiting lists, managing allocations and work outputs, and conducting operational case management supervision with all the clinical team. As the Deputy Safeguarding Lead, being the secondary point of contact for all Safeguarding queries in the service. As well as delivery and evaluation of both accredited and non accredited training.

Name: Amy 

Role: Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner

Worked at The Link since: January 2019

Favourite Food: Pizza and BBQ dip

Superpower of choice: Flying!

Favourite TV show/ Film: Game of thrones (but not the ending...)

A day in your role...

Every day is different and always rewarding. My role as an enhanced evidence based practitioner can range between supporting young people and their families with things such as anger, friendship difficulties, emotional regulation, to difficulties with anxiety and low mood. I work with children between primary and secondary schools ages and feed into the service level agreements we have with schools.

Name: Jon

Role: Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner (EWP)

Worked at The Link since: September 2020

Favourite Food: Fish n Chips at the coast and out of newspaper

Superpower of choice: To be able to fly

Favourite TV show/ Film: Two and a Half Men (Charlie Sheen era)

A day in your role...

My typical day involved going into schools to carry out supportive work with children and young people between the ages of 4 - 18 and develop/deliver training to external stakeholders. I carry out Psychoeducation to parents in parent-led work to give parents the tools to therapeutically support their own children. I also collaborate with partner agencies in supporting Management plans and strategies that best suit the needs of children and families. 

Name: Chloe

Role: Low Intensity CBT Practitioner & Outreach

Worked at The Link since: July 2019 

Favourite Food: Mushroom Pizza

Superpower of choice: Teleportation

Favourite TV show/ Film: Friends

A day in your role...

My day typically starts at a Redcar or Middlesbrough based school at 9am, providing therapeutic support to a child or young person usually experiencing anxiety or low mood. From here, I will drive to another school (and do this three or four times throughout the day) before going back to the office to complete my paper work for the interventions I have facilitated. I usually eat lunch between appointments, or back at my desk while I chat to the lovely people I share a room with.

Name: Esther

Role: Therapeutic Social Worker/Art Therapist

Worked at The Link since: August 2020

Favourite Food: Curry

Superpower of choice: To be able to fly like a bird!

Favourite TV show: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross

A day in your role…

My role has a lot of variety. I am a social worker so I do some work from different social care settings, this can include working therapeutically with children who have a social worker and being a Practice Teacher for student social workers who come to the Link for their first or second placements.

I am also a qualified art therapist which I love. I work with children and young people here at the Link, or in schools, on a one to one basis using art to help them understand and express themselves and their feelings. I love this part of my role as sometimes it can be difficult to explain to others how we are feeling and art therapy can be a bit like the voice that says things for us.

A day in my role will involve me checking I have my art materials ready before I see someone and that it is the right materials for them.  I need to make sure I have lots of different types of art materials like glitter, glue sticks, play-doh, coloured felt pens, pencils and paper because every art therapy session is different and children use different things.

Name: Rosina Collins

Role: Administration Assistant for the Mental Health Support Team

Worked at The Link since: 24th September 2021

Favourite Food: London Pizza

Superpower of choice: Healing

Favourite TV show/Film: Film - Harry Potter, TV Show - Castle

A day in my role....

Is supporting the Mental Health Support Team by inputting data onto the system and booking appointments. Along with scanning & uploading documents and sending out letters.