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Dr Tina Rae

BA (hons) PGCE MA(Ed) Msc RSADipSpLD DipPsych ALCM Doc App Ch Ed Psy MBPS

HCPC registered Child and Educational Psychologist, Author and Educational Consultant

Dr Tina Rae has over 30 years' experience working with children, adults and families in both clinical and educational contexts within local authorities and specialist educational services. She is currently working as a Consultant Educational and Child Psychologist in a range of SEBD/SEMH and mainstream contexts and for Compass Fostering as a Consultant Psychologist supporting foster carers, social workers and Looked after children. She was also an Academic and Professional tutor for the Doctorate in Educational and Child psychology at the University of East London from 2010-16. She is a registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council and a full member of the British Psychological Society. Tina is also a member of ENSEC (European Network for Social and Emotional Competence) and, until recently, a trustee of the Nurture Group Network (NGN) now Nurture UK.

Tina is also a member of the editorial board for the journal Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and for the International Journal of Nurture in Education.

Tina is a prolific author and has over 100 publications to date which can be accessed via Sage publications, Paul Chapman publishing, Folens publishers, Jessica Kingsley, Speechmark, Routledge, Hinton publishers, NGN and Optimus publications. She is currently working on research into staff well-being and resilience and writing 2 books on this topic including one which focuses on peer group supervision systems. She is also developing and trialling an intervention for girls who have been the victims of child sexual exploitation as part of her role as Consultant Psychologist with Compass fostering. Tina also contributes to national and international conferences and events on a regular basis including those for Giraffe Training, NurtureUK, BSA and Optimus whilst also providing training courses and consultancy on a wide range of Well Being issues and supervision for school based staff in both special and mainstream contexts and Educational Psychology services and specialist teaching services across the country and abroad. She most recently delivered a key note on staff well being and vicarious trauma resulting from working with self-harming CYP at the South East Asia Counsellors Networking Conference in Hong Kong.

She currently offers training and consultancy on the following topics:

• Promoting children's social and emotional skills across all key stages
• Attachment disorders and implications for the classroom
• Therapeutic parenting
• Emotion coaching
• Critical Incidents
• Self harm and suicide
• Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
• Working with teenage girls to prevent gang participation
• Developing study skills
• Anger and stress management
• Cognitive behaviour therapy approaches with children
• Motivational interviewing approaches with children
• Solution focused approaches with young children and adolescents
• Bereavement, Grief and Loss education
• Emotional Well being and Mental health in schools
• Teacher Coaching
• Motivation in the classroom
• Confidence, Assertiveness and Self esteem building
• Trauma and resilience building
• Positive Psychology interventions
• Sensory Integration