Adult Services Counsellor. Patsy works as a counsellor for PAC-UK. She completed the Adoption Counselling Expertise (ACE) course in 1998 and regularly undertakes trainings to increase her skill base. Patsy previously worked as a senior social worker for five years in Wandsworth’s post adoption service gaining experience with special guardians, adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees; children and adults. Prior to that she was part of the Wandsworth multidisciplinary tier four CAMHS service for twenty years. Her former social work role was as an approved mental health practitioner. Patsy’s roles within PAC-UK have included delivering training in life story work, self-care skills and caring for children with developmental trauma. She is also a parent advisor for the Enhancing Adoptive Parenting Programme and offers short term intensive assessments. Patsy has trained in DDP – Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and AIT- Advanced Integrative Therapy.

Adult Services Counsellor. Rose’s role at PAC-UK is as a counsellor in the adult counselling service, providing counselling to adults affected by adoption or other permanent placement. These include adopted adults, care experienced adults, birth parents and other birth relatives, adoptive parents and special guardians. Rose has a particular interest in the impact of early trauma, separation and loss, identity issues and support around search and reunion. Rose was a social worker with over 30 years’ experience of providing adoption support services and post care services for adults. She has an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling and has completed PAC-UK’s Adoption Counselling Expertise (ACE) diploma and undertaken PAC-UK’s Enhancing Adoptive Parenting training. Rose – who is also a registered member of BACP – has worked as a research interviewer/team member on several major adoption research studies into the experience of adopted adults and their birth and adoptive families.

Child & Family Therapist. Veronique Faure studied and qualified in France as a Social Worker (HCPC Registered), and in the UK as an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist (UKCP Registered). She also obtained a Diploma in Child Psychotherapeutic Skills, and a Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy. She works privately with adults, children and adolescents, and as part of the Child and Family team at PAC-UK. She has 25+ years of multi-cultural inner-city professional experience, in the field of child protection, children in care and adoption. Amongst other things, she has managed a Residential and Outreach Family Assessment Centre; she has worked as a Court Expert in Family Proceedings, as a Child Protection Conference Chair and as an Independent Reviewing Officer; she also trained Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists for 7 years.

Child & Family Therapist. Jeanine is an Art Psychotherapist, and an NVR-UK accredited Group Practitioner and Supervisor. Her background is in education and residential care. Jeanine completed her Undergraduate training as a Creative Expressive Group Facilitator in 2009 and went on to working in residential care with looked after children and young people. During her 9 years of residential work, she became interested in expanding the limited interventions available to staff for supporting the children process their relationships and their experiences. In 2014 Jeanine began working in education across mainstream and specialist settings as a School Counsellor, NVR Parent Group Facilitator, Staff Trainer and Safeguarding Lead. Jeanine’s various roles have given her experience of working with young people with a wide range of needs and presenting difficulties including; young people with SEN, social emotional mental health needs affecting their behaviour, adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, loss of significant people and separation from caregivers. She has also worked with young people who have been exploited by their peers as well as young people who present with harmful sexual behaviour. Jeanine has a BA in Creative Expressive Therapies from the University of Derby and an MA in Art Psychotherapy from the University of Hertfordshire and has HCPC registration. Jeanine has been involved with NVR since 2014 and joined the PAC-UK Child & Family Service in May 2020. Jeanine is particularly interested in experiential group processes and supporting families who struggle with social and emotional mental health difficulties through the use of creative play.

Adult Services Counsellor. Deborah (Debs) is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor who prior to clinical training, worked for 14 years in Local Authority Child, Family, and Targeted Youth Support Services, including Adoption and Fostering, Youth Justice, and Young People’s Homeless Support. Undertaking restorative youth justice and working with young people separated from their families, Debs managed the Child in Need and Early Help work in a large multi-disciplinary amalgamated Youth Support Services team. Whilst in counselling training, Debs moved into the charity sector, as lead advice worker for a national charity for children in care, designing and delivering trauma informed training for professionals and young care experienced adults whilst also undertaking direct work with young people. Prior to joining PAC-UK, her clinical placement was in the NHS within a busy London GP practice, and it was at this time she moved into a role within Family Action’s London Young Carer Services, before being seconded into a lead role delivering an emotional support service for care-experienced young adults during Covid-19 lockdown, where she oversaw the work of volunteers and their supervisors. Debs is in the London Clinical Team at PAC-UK and also works on the advice line. In her counselling work Debs draws on several therapeutic approaches, holding the view that our past continues to affect us, and it is by developing insight and understanding that we can begin to gain compassion for ourselves and our choices.

Data and Business Support Administrator. Jin joined PAC-UK in 2023 and is based at our Family Action Head Office in London. Jin’s role includes administrative, data collection, data reporting and analysis, financial management and monitoring tasks, working closely with our National Operational Lead to manage these functions across all PAC-UK services and projects. Jin has a Bachelor of Science in Business Studies and sees his role at PAC-UK as a great opportunity for growth and personal development.