Anna is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Mother based in the UK who specialises in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She works in independent private practice and is the Director and Founder of Elysian Psychology.

Dr. Anna Symonds
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
BA (HONS), MSc, DClinPsy, CPsychol, CSci, AFBPSS

Elizabeth is a lawyer, law professor, author and mother based in France who specialises in Child Online Protection and Digital Parenting. She is an independent expert for the Council of Europe and provides support to Internet Matters, UK Safer Internet Centre and the Family Online Safety Institute. She works internationally, speaks and holds workshops.

Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov
Digital Parenting expert
Trustee The Diana Award

Lauren is a Board Certified Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychologist based in San Diego, CA. She specializes in autism, anxiety, parenting, and behavioural concerns and sees infants through adults. She also consults internationally. For our book for Autistic children Lauren worked closely with Anthony Danielson a 15 year old autistic advocate based in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Lauren Elder
Board Certified Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologist

Donna is a mother of three young children and a sport academic, lecturer and researcher. When she was 3 years old her dad took her to her first football game and she’s been hooked on sport ever since. She has over 17 years experience working with organisations such as the International Olympic Committee, UEFA and many different international sport federations. She is passionate about the positive effects sport and physical activity can have, and she believes everyone should be able to enjoy these benefits.

Dr. Donna de Haan
Associate Professsor at Hague University of Applied Sciences

Nicole holds a dentistry degree, a postgraduate certificate in paediatric dentistry and a doctorate (Dr med dent) in paediatric dentistry. Nicole worked in paediatric dental practices for 7 years, then relocated to London in 2008 to establish Toothbeary an innovative award-winning children’s only dental practice. Nicole has published in numerous national and international scientific journals and regularly features as an expert regarding children’s dental health matters in television, radio and newspapers.

Dr. Nicole Sturzenbaum
Principal dentist and partner of Toothbeary a children-only dental practice.

Charlotte is mum to Amelia, 20. She believes that the hard work put in throughout early childhood has made all the difference to the young person that her daughter has become. When asked to write a book for children with Downs Syndrome for Mind+Matter, Charlotte cast her mind back to when Amelia was 4 or 5 years old and tried to imagine the type of book that would help both Amelia and her friends and peers better understand DS.

Charlotte Elizabeth Bond
Mother to Amelia

Helen Bond is one of the UK’s leading dietitians with 24 years’ experience in food, diet and it’s relationship to health. Passionate about communicating the role of good nutrition towards positive health and wellbeing. She now runs her own successful dietetic practice in Melbourne, Derbyshire, where she provides consultancy for food companies and regularly writes and provide expert comment on nutrition news stories for magazines and national newspapers.

Helen Bond
Registered Dietitian, BSc. (Hons), MBDA

Geoff joined Action Against Abduction in 2012 to produce a major study of child abduction in the UK (‘Taken’) in collaboration with (what is now) the National Crime Agency-CEOP Command. He was awarded a Police Commendation for the quality of this research. Geoff published ‘Beyond Stranger Danger’ in 2014 which has paved the way for the development of Safe, Not Scared – the charity’s new initiative to offer parents and teachers effective abduction prevention materials. In 2007 he became Director of Policy and Research at Missing People, where he led a major programme of research on missing persons and the impact of going missing.

Geoff Newiss
Director of Action Against Abduction