Shoshanah is the Director and founder of Beacon House and brings to her role twenty years’ experience of working therapeutically with children and adults across a wide range of contexts. Shoshanah is a specialist in complex developmental trauma across the lifespan, and she has dedicated her life’s work to developing a deep understanding of how individuals and systems can heal from experiences of adversity, loss and trauma. She understands mental health through a trauma-informed lens and is a fierce advocate for inviting others to join in with this way of thinking.

Shoshanah’s approach to leading Beacon House is rooted in the core value that each and every one of us is driven to survive, and how we are in the world at any given time is the wisest, most adaptive version of ourselves in that moment. There is no ‘us and them’ – and Shoshanah works hard to walk the walk and talk the talk; paying careful attention to the dignity and safety that she and everyone in the team here needs so that we can offer a service that is sensitive, safe and respectful.

In her role as Director, Shoshanah oversees the smooth running of the service as a whole. She works closely with her colleagues in the leadership team to deliver a robust and innovative approach to therapeutic assessment and interventions for people of all ages and families with complex unmet needs. The dissemination of easy-to-understand trauma informed information is very important to Shoshanah, and she collaborates with our in-house artist to create training and resources freely shared on our website. Shoshanah is also the Responsible Individual for our Adoption Support Agency and is accountable to Ofsted for our work with children and adults who are adopted.

Shoshanah feels energised and full of hope that change is possible for individuals, and the communities around them, given the right opportunities for relationships that repair and heal.

Shoshanah is registered with the Health Care Professions Council (membership number PYL15710) and chartered with the British Psychological Society (membership number 042977).

  • Advanced Attachment-Focussed EMDR for Complex Trauma
    Laurel Parnell, CCPE London, three days, 2015
  • Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) – Initial Training Course Attachment and Psychopathology, a three day course on the Dynamic Maturational Model of attachment
    An effective intervention for improving the relationship between parents/carers and their children, 2014
  • CARE-Index Assessment – level 3 reliability
    An evidence-based risk assessment of patterns of interaction between infants and their carers based on the Dynamic Maturational Model of attachment, a nine day course completed in July 2014
  • Story Stem Attachment Assessment Profile Training
    The Anna Freud Centre, London, 2014
  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) – Level 1
    An attachment-focussed therapy for traumatised children and their carers. Family Futures, London, 2013
  • Certificate of Expert Witness Accreditation – Family Law Specialism
    Cardiff University & Bond Solon, 2009
  • EMDR Training – Child Specialism
    Joanne Morris Smith, London, 2008
  • EMDR Training with Adults – Levels 1, 2 and 3 
    EMDR Workshops, London, 2007 & 2008
  • Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy)
    Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003-2006
  • MSc in Experimental Psychology
    University of Sussex, 2001-2002
  • BA (Hon’s) in Philosophy
    University of Sussex, 1997-2000