Child & Adolescent Therapist

Mali is a qualified Child-Centred Play Therapist, registered with the British Association of Play Therapists (BAPT). She holds an MA in Play Therapy from the University of Roehampton and a BA (Hons) in Early Childhood Studies from Middlesex University.

With over ten years of experience supporting children across a wide range of settings including schools, an NHS bereavement service, charities, and early years environments. Mali offers a warm, empathetic, and attuned approach to helping children express and process their inner worlds through play.

Mali creates a safe, creative space in which feelings and experiences can be explored symbolically and at the child’s own pace. Her therapeutic approach is child-led, relational, and grounded in empathy, patience, and respect. She works collaboratively with families, schools, and other professionals to ensure that children are understood and supported both inside and outside the therapy room.

Mali supports children who experience difficulties in managing their feelings. Some of these feelings may relate to:
• loss/bereavement
• separation/divorce
• trauma
• abuse
• neglect
• adoption
• illness
• disabilities
• neurodiversity
• low self-esteem
• bullying
• attachment difficulties
• anxiety and mood disorders

Her MA research, “Who is playing now? A playful discovery of children and their dissociated self-states,” reflects her interest in the ways play can help children integrate and make sense of complex trauma and dissociation.