Speakers

Shahana Knight is an award-winning childhood trauma specialist and the founder and director of TPC therapy Ltd, a mental health service for children and young people. She works within the education and care sector as well as with charities. She is the founder of the ‘Therapeutic Schools approach’ through which she is working with schools across England to put children’s wellbeing at the core of education. Pioneering a vision for all schools to become trauma informed, therapeutic schools. Her unique approach is making a significant impact and has been recognised by BBC NewsRound and BBC Teach who have both done features in which Shahana has appeared. Shahana writes a regular segment in Head Teachers Update, the national magazine for primary schools where she shares therapeutic teaching ideas and techniques, she is also a radio presenter on Smile Radio- a station that patrons mental health and wellbeing.  She has been a governor of two primary school and has sat on two foster care panels.