Meet the Team
Louise Michelle Bombèr is pleased to introduce you to her team at TouchBase. All team members are experienced and skilled up in their field. All are well on the attachment aware and trauma responsive developmental pathway in their practice. Currently we have team members based in Brighton, Lewes, London, Bristol and Devon.
Louise Michelle Bombèr
Louise Michelle Bombèr – Founding Director, Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher & Therapist
Louise Michelle Bombèr is qualified as both a specialist teacher, a therapist and a DDP certified practitioner. She has worked with individual pupils, classes, whole school settings, local authorities, teachers and support staff across both the primary and secondary phases.
Maisie
Maisie is a young apricot cockapoo who is part of the TouchBase™ team.
Maisie provides therapeutic support to some of our children and young people in the therapy room, at Plot 22 and out and about in local schools in Brighton & Hove and around Sussex
Alice Mallorie
Alice Mallorie – Strategic Therapeutic Attachment Lead & Psychotherapist
Alice has an MA in Integrative Child Psychotherapy from the Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education (IATE) where she studied among others, with Dan Hughes (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) and Éadaoin Bhreathnach (Sensory Attachment Intervention) including a two-year infant observation paper as part of her training.
Anisha Charania
Integrative Child, Adolescent & Adult Therapist
Anisha is a qualified Integrative Humanistic Therapist (PGdip) and a registered member of the B.A.C.P. (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy). She completed her training at Wealden Institute of Psychotherapy in 2015 and since then has worked with children, young people and adults presenting with various challenges.
Anna Cimmino
Support Services Co-Ordinator
Anna is our Support Services Co-Ordinator in our Engine Room Team leading on the referrals side of the work here at TouchBase, working very closely with our Therapy and Education Leads to ensure a timely response and the efficient running of all the support services offered, in the specialist area of trauma recovery.
Cat Merrick
Community Groups Co-Ordinator
Cat is our Community Groups Co-Ordinator in our Engine Room Team, overseeing and liaising with our existing groups as well as exploring the needs and interests of our community here in Brighton.
Emma Nichols
Touchbase Operational Director
Emma Nichols is our Operational Director here at TouchBase, overseeing the Engine Room Team, and facilitating our regulatory and quality assurances processes. Emma completed a degree in English Literature and then embarked on a variety of commercial roles over a twenty-year period.
Gemma Mallyon
Specialist Teacher & Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Gemma is an Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Specialist Teacher working on both the therapy and education teams to support trauma recovery. She trained at The Institute for Arts and Therapy in Education where her training utilised a range of neuroscientific and psychotherapeutic theory.
Hannah Auton
Training Co-ordinator
Hannah is a highly organised and experienced administrator having worked in different roles over a number of years, in a busy dental practice in Brighton. She also enjoyed working in a nursery whilst doing
Helen Wright
Helen Wright – Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher & Therapist
Helen Wright is a qualified Teacher and a Therapist, registered with BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy). She has additional training as a trainer of Whole School Quality Circle Time; in Theraplay ®, DDP and Sensory informed practice. Helen is in the process of certification for DDP.
Jennie Fellows
Education Lead and Strategic Therapeutic Attachment Lead
Jennie Fellows is a Therapeutic Attachment Lead for TouchBase™ and a regional Attachment Lead across Sussex. She practices as both a BACP accredited therapeutic counsellor and a specialist
Jenny Tasker
Accounts Assistant
Jenny is our Accounts Assistant overseeing payments in our Engine Room team. Jenny is responsible for the management of grant income, donations, and community funds. Jenny also works closely with our Financial Accountant to ensure the smooth running of the finance function.
Julia Wilde
Julia Wilde – Education, Training and Community Team
Julia is a Strategic Attachment Lead teacher and is part of the TouchBase™ team. With a background teaching in Secondary Education and experience in the Primary setting, her work in schools has focused on inclusion and supporting vulnerable students. Julia has completed and continues to follow the recommended pathway for TIE (Trauma Informed Education).
Kerri Tilson
Clinical Lead
Kerri is the Clinical Lead of TouchBase. She is a BACP registered Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and was previously a social worker. She has extensive experience in leadership positions and has much multi-cultural experience having worked overseas and in London for a well-established charity.
Lou Bowd
Support Services Co-ordinator
Lou oversees our reception here at TouchBase, whether you are contacting us by email or coming in to see us in person. She also co-ordinates our support services, working very closely with both our Therapy and Education Leads to ensure everyone receives a timely response and the most appropriate support provision.
Louise Kilshaw
Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher
Louise is a valued member of our national training team at TouchBase. She is passionate about embedding attachment aware and trauma responsive practices at home, school and out in the wider community.
Luke Palmer
Specialist Therapist & Educational Psychotherapist
Luke has an MA in Educational Psychotherapy from the Caspari Foundation and is a qualified Educational Psychotherapist (UKCP reg.). The principle focus of his career to date has been to use the attachment framework to develop therapeutic practices and thinking in schools, to support the school community at large to overcome emotional barriers, build a sense of belonging and connection and help foster confidence in the value of the individual’s own voice to make positive change.
Mandy Richards
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Mandy is a UKCP accredited Integrative Child Psychotherapist who works therapeutically with children, young people and their families to develop and promote emotional and psychological wellbeing. Mandy’s speciality is providing long-term psychotherapeutic support for an in-depth exploration of difficulties and lasting change.
Michael Reeves
Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher & Psychotherapist
Michael is an Integrative Child Psychotherapist (BACP member). He is also an Educational Psychotherapist, (UKCP)
Natalie Miller
Natalie Miller – Strategic Attachment Lead Teacher and Training Lead
Natalie Miller is a Strategic Attachment Lead across Sussex. She has worked in Primary Education for 20 years, specialising in Inclusion and SEN. Natalie has completed and continues to follow the recommended pathway for TIE (Trauma Informed Education).
Nicola MacKinnon
TouchBase Trainer
Nicola MacKinnon is a strategic attachment lead teacher and successfully completed the year long trauma responsive education course developing an authority wide relational policy embedded in DDP. Nicola is an experienced education and children’s services professional with a passion for trauma informed practice and relational approaches.
Ross Cormack
Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychotherapist & EMDR Therapist
Ross is a UKCP registered Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist. Ross attended the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, completing the PGDIP in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts, qualifying with a PGDIP and MA in Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy at Terapia.
Ruth Dudman
Trainee Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychotherapist
Ruth is a deeply empathic and creative trainee therapist in the final year of her MA in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She studies at one of the UK’s leading training organisations Terapia, which together with her professional experience qualifies her to work across all age groups, including with adults and parents.
Suzi Lambert
Strategic Therapeutic Attachment Lead & Therapist
Suzi is an accredited Play Therapist (registered with B.A.P.T), Suzi has a wealth of experience working therapeutically with children and adolescents who have suffered developmental trauma and relational loss. Suzi has experience both in the UK and abroad. She also has worked with children in Brazil.
Tania Druce
Therapy Lead, Strategic Therapeutic Attachment Lead & Psychotherapist
Tania is a UKCP accredited Integrative Child Psychotherapist, specialising in working with children and adolescents who have experienced relational and developmental trauma and loss. She
Vanessa Jones
Strategic Therapeutic Attachment Lead & Therapist
Vanessa is a qualified therapist and registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy). She recently completed the PGCert in Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Well-being Multidisciplinary Practice, which is accredited by the Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice.
