Charity Coordinator & Specialist Teacher

Sarah qualified as a primary school teacher in 1995 and has worked with autistic children for over 23 years.  She has developed our anxiety management courses, social understanding groups, communication groups and 1-1 programmes with children.  She also manages our parent courses, volunteer training and workshops for parents, schools and local organisations. Sarah leads our sibling support group for primary aged children. 

Senior Occupational Therapist

Francis is a qualified occupational therapist (OT) with over 20 years experience of working in paediatrics.  She worked as an OT for the local authority children’s services and the NHS children’s therapy services before starting Mustard Seed in 2011.  Francis has post graduate training in Sensory Processing Disorder and autism; DIR Floor Time; Motor Coordination Disorders and Therapeutic Listening.  Francis leads our teens sibling support group.

Occupational Therapist

George is an occupational therapist (OT) with over 25 years experience working in paediatrics. She has worked both in NHS children’s therapy services and independently. George works in mainstream and specialist schools and provides regular occupational therapy in a specialist centre for autistic children within a secondary school.

​George has been providing occupational therapy services for Mustard Seed since 2015. George has post graduate training in sensory processing, motor co-ordination disorders, handwriting difficulties, Therapeutic Listening® and the CO-OP Approach™

Office & Finance (AATQB)

Nicola has over 20 years administration experience and has been with us since 2022. She is the first point of contact for the charity on the main phone number and email address, looking after the booking of all appointments and initial queries. She also looks after our bookkeeping, website and database.

Nicola has two children, the eldest diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome.

Contracted Occupational Therapist

Pippa is an occupational therapist (OT) and is contracted by Mustard Seed to support our work with autistic children and our OT for Schools Service.

Contracted Play Therapist

Julia qualified as a play therapist in 2018 and is a registered British Association Play Therapist (BAPT). She is also a mum of three and worked in a school as an LSA for 10 years before deciding to retrain.  As a trainee play therapist Julia completed her placement work with Mustard Seed and is now our play therapist. In addition, Julia runs play therapy sessions in schools across North East Hampshire and Surrey.