Samantha Young has built a highly successful career in working with children and young people for over Twenty years, specialising in work around challenging behaviour, school exclusions, autistic spectrum disorders, work with looked after children and young people and Special Educational Needs.

As a trained youth and community worker and Complementary therapist she uniquely combines both her extensive therapeutic and youth and community work skills and training and has proved to achieve the best possible outcomes for those that she engages with.

She has partnered with several different services and organisations. These include Social Services, Child residential care services, Education (both mainstream and alternative), CAMHS, also working with local charities to deliver her freelance services. She is experienced in one to one and group working, counselling, tutoring, mentoring, emotional support and mental health first aid.

Sam is dedicated to developing the understanding of and responses towards behaviour. She believes that it is vital that we, as care providers become conscious and self-aware of our own behaviours, reactions and responses and adapt our methods and approaches to best suit the developing needs of each individual that we engage with - Particularly those who have additional needs or are neuro divergent.

Samantha is committed to educating, empowering, and upskilling. To building self-confidence and resilience, raising aspirations and sharing skills, knowledge, tools and experiences that enable people to go on to be the best that they can possibly be.