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Who Are We?
Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse (NRCSA) has become an area of debate and research and all sectors and stakeholders are calling for change. All members of the Network already work with Non-Recent Child Sexual abuse, and bring diverse expertise. The Network are working together to educate, inspire and support anyone, and everyone, who wishes to be part of this change.
Dr Louise Allnut
Louise is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at UCLH NHS Trust. She trained in child and adolescent psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre. She has worked in a number of a trauma focused services throughout the last 20 years, including family assessment services providing expert witness reports for family courts. Louise has taught and supervised on a number of courses at the Tavistock Centre, British Psychotherapy Foundation and UCL since 2009, including the Trauma Workshop for doctoral students. Louise has a particular interest in supporting clinicians on the frontline to manage the emotional impact of their work. She runs several work discussion and reflective practice groups for staff groups working in the NHS, including those working in acute care settings. She also supports a specialist service for children and young people who have experienced sexual abuse withs staff support and reflective practice. Louise regularly presents and writes about early developmental trauma in children and young people and has a particular interest in the impact of trauma on the body in adolescence.
Dr Susannah Alyce
Susannah was 50 when she discovered, during EMDR therapy, the roots of her life-long trauma distress. While her mind had forgotten all but the smallest fragments of CSA, her body could re-enact precisely the events she had endured and survived. To cope with this discovery Susanna embarked on a PhD at University of Essex to add academic weight to her own experience of what helps survivors embrace life fully: relationships of empathy with self and others, including befriending the body, heart and mind. Susanna has practiced meditation and yoga for 35 years, teaching both survivors and others. She had an early career in Business at IBM and SmithKline Beecham and has an MSc in Teaching MBSR and MBCT from Bangor University.
Dr Maria Eyres
Maria is a consultant medical psychotherapist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She trained and worked in East London and in the Tavistock Clinic.She combined her early personal interest in the effects of trauma on individuals, families and society with the clinical reality at work and made it a special interest in her career. She is trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (tf-CBT), Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). She co-chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists Expert Reference Group on non-recent child sexual abuse. After 22 years in NHS, she is now the clinical director at DocHealth, a not-for-profit consultation service for doctors. She is the former Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Emma Facer-Irwin
Emma is a Clinical Psychologist, academic, and lecturer. She currently works clinically with children and adolescents at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, and is trained in both TF-CBT and EMDR. Emma also works as a programme lead and clinical lecturer on the Clinical Forensic Psychology MSc at the IoPPN (King’s College London). Emma’s PhD research was the first to examine PTSD and Complex PTSD amongst the male imprisoned population, using a longitudinal design. She has published several research articles on the impact of complex trauma and PTSD, and has presented her research at national and international conferences, including annual conferences for the European and International Societies for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her research interests lie primarily within the intersection between trauma and the justice system, including the development and evaluation of Trauma Informed Care.
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Dr Kiki Hassen
Kiki is a HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist currently working within the NHS, with experience across a range of clinical settings including specialist forensic services, complex trauma services, and community and inpatient contexts. Across these roles, she has worked therapeutically with many survivors of childhood trauma, including childhood sexual abuse. Her doctoral research explored the lived experience of dissociative identity disorder, focusing on identity fragmentation and the ways in which trauma is experienced and organised through dissociative processes. Alongside this, she conducted a research project exploring the experiences of racially minoritised survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the UK. She has contributed to professional guidance through authorship of a chapter on cross-cultural considerations in working with dissociation for the ACP-UK book Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice, and through providing diversity stakeholder review across the wider text. Kiki is particularly interested in the experiences of marginalised survivors and the ways in which intersecting identities shape both trauma and access to care. She regularly delivers training across clinical and academic settings on trauma-informed, culturally-informed, and dissociation-aware practice, with a focus on moving beyond theory into meaningful, embodied, and systemic change.
Michael May
Michael has worked with victims and survivors of Child Sexual Abuse for more than 15 years. His primary interest lies in the intersecting identities of those who experience CSA. He has campaigned for recognition of the needs of men, ethnic minority and disabled people. His efforts to detoxify the narrative around men as victims of sexual abuse has led to national changes to funding and reporting nationally and stimulating conversations that have resulted in year on year increases in reports from male survivors. At the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, he led inclusive thinking and ensured that the experiences of survivors with protected characteristics were sought and included so that their needs could be recognised in the reports and recommendations of that body. Michael currently works alongside organisations to help them develop thinking and activities that better include minority stakeholders and voices in their staff and stakeholder groups.
Once told by a psychiatrist she would 'never recover from severe and enduring mental illness,' Sophie is a survivor activist, founder of The Flying Child CIC, and author of The Flying Child - finding a purposeful life after Child Sexual Abuse through compassionate and creative therapy. Through survivor-led training, campaigning, and support, The Flying Child aims to normalise conversations about the “unspeakable” across society, professional settings, and the survivor community. She developed and leads Side by Side CSA, a programme that supports professionals to recognise and respond to child sexual abuse and its lifelong impacts. Sophie's work highlights the limitations of viewing trauma solely through a diagnostic lens and advocates for compassionate, accessible, and human-centred support for all survivors, including those working in frontline roles. She is a mother of four.
Dr Khadija Rouf
Khadija (pronouns she/her) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in the NHS. She is also a member of the British Psychological Society’s Safeguarding Advisory Group. Khadj has worked on resources for young people and adults, and written professionally regarding mental health issues, both for clinicians and the public. She has also written personally from her perspective as a survivor of child abuse.
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Maggie Schaedal
Maggie is the founder and clinical lead for The Woman’s Service, an award-winning, specialist psychotherapy service for survivors of historic child sexual abuse. Consultant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Over many years Maggie has worked in concurrent University and NHS settings and has taught the work of D.W. Winnicott at The Squiggle Foundation , Arbours Association and on masters and doctoral programmes within the university. She has been invited to give many keynote speaker presentations including the Women and Leadership Conference in September 2019 for the South London Partnership. In 2019 Maggie was awarded a special commendation from British Psychoanalytic Council for a service that has been influential in the development of specialist psychotherapy services for survivors of child sexual abuse. Most recently (2020) she presented to the Tavistock External Lectures on Trauma: Ghosts Don’t Turn Corners. Publications in Sex and Sexuality (2005, Karnac), and Her Hour Come Round At Last (2011 Karnac). She has a private practice near Sevenoaks.
Sara Scott
Sara is a UKCP and BCP registered psychotherapist at the Fitzrovia Group Analytic Practice, working with individuals, couples, and groups. She manages the historical childhood abuse service as part of the Tavistock Trauma Service. In a previous role at the Women’s Therapy Centre she worked as a senior manager and ran groups for refugees, young women, and women who experienced severe trauma as children. Her first training was at Goldsmiths College, where she trained as an art therapist. She qualified as a group analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis and has been a tutor on the qualifying course as well as running seminars. She is a training group analyst. She trained as an individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust as well as taking courses in organizational consultancy there. She supervises both groups and individual work.
Dr Joanne Stubley
Joanne is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She is the lead clinician of the Tavistock Trauma Service, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a psychoanalyst who has also been trained in trauma-specific modalities of care. She has written widely on trauma, teaching nationally and internationally. She is co-editor of “Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model” with Linda Young, published in 2022, which was nominated for a Gravida Award. Her latest book, co-edited with Daniel Taggart is Talking About Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse published in 2026.
Dr Daniel Taggart
Danny is the Academic Director on the doctorate in clinical psychology program at the University of Essex. He also works at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Daniel has also worked with the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry Redress Board and the Jersey Citizen’s Panel for the Care Home Inquiry. He has worked clinically with survivors of child sexual abuse for over 20 years. His research interests include the impacts that child sexual abuse has across the lifespan and the barriers survivors face in accessing support. Daniel has published widely in the area.
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Dr William Tantam
William is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Bristol University. Prior to joining Bristol he worked as a Senior Research Officer with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. His previous academic research has focused on issues of race, gender, and embodiment, and his publications include An Ethnography of Football and Masculinities in Jamaica: Letting the football talk (2019), and the co-authored Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (with Jack Webb and Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, 2020).
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Tom Robinson
Tom trained as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman, where he continues to work in a specialist forensic psychotherapy service. His research interests and clinical work centre on the complexities of psychotherapeutic intervention with those who hold a dual identity as both victim and perpetrator of abuse. His previous psychotherapy roles include general CAMHS, NHS eating disorder services, and work with adolescents in a community setting. He is experienced in offering group work, reflective practice, professional consultation and teaching at post-graduate level. Before training as a psychotherapist he worked as a sexual violence advocate in a specialist service for children who have experienced sexual abuse. He also worked for many years with adolescents and adults in NHS sexual health and HIV services, in hospitals including the Royal Free and Chelsea and Westminster. Tom’s clinical work has demonstrated the damage that sexual abuse can cause from both the victim and perpetrator perspectives. He strongly believes in the need to look towards disturbance and darkness to tackle cycles of abuse and abusing.