Sarah is an experienced specialist mental health worker, with a background in nursing, psychology, literature and medical anthropology. In her 18 years of work with Brent Centre for Young People, as clinician, researcher and experienced safeguarding lead, she also held a senior executive role, and pioneered research and groupwork approaches with young people within the youth offending service, contributed to the development of the practical support and engagement service, as well as creating and leading Brent Centre Highlands, an accessible psychotherapy service for young people in the Highlands. Sarah is passionate about working with young people, and has also worked on projects with MIND, The Anna Freud Centre, Great Ormond Street, alongside her experience of working in NHS adolescent in-patient units. Sarah studied originally at the University of St Andrews, University College London, and The Tavistock, as well as additional training at the Women's Therapy Centre in London, and has previously taught Social Psychology with the Open University. She has been delighted to serve as a Trustee with Mikeysline and contribute to efforts to tackle the high suicide rates here in Highlands. Happily rooted in the Highlands, she is currently in the final stages of her training as a Psychoanalyst with the Institute of Psychoanalysis. As the Institute's most Northern candidate, she hopes Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective will be a gateway and community to anyone here with an interest in training or learning more about psychoanalysis, as well as building accessible psychotherapy services.