About Us

Sarah Naish’s work is grounded in deep lived experience. She draws on her background as a former social worker, foster parent, and adoptive mother to a family of five profoundly traumatised siblings—bringing rare authenticity and credibility to everything she teaches and leads.  Sarah is widely recognised as a trailblazer in child trauma and therapeutic parenting. She has developed specialist parenting models that have had national impact, significantly increasing recognition of the complex needs of traumatised children.

Sarah Dillon brings together powerful lived experience and extensive clinical expertise to shape trauma-informed practice across fostering, adoption and kinship care.  At the heart of Sarah’s work is her own lived experience. She spent much of her childhood as a looked-after child within the care system. This perspective deeply informs her practice—bringing compassion, realism and credibility to everything she does.

Alison Douglas has decades of social work experience, her vocation initially inspired the adoption of her sons.  An interest in neuroscience research, linking childhood neglect to impaired brain development, led to a meeting with Sarah Naish. Alison was a Regional Director for the UK’s largest IFA before founding SAfER Fostering, and she has led fostering agencies to OFSTED Outstanding. Her passion for this work is driven by the insights and resilience gained through her own life journey.