Non Executive Board Member
Sinead is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. She went on to train as an Art Psychotherapist, having previously studied Psychology at Glasgow University. She found employment as an Art Therapist in the NHS and voluntary sector in the areas of adult mental health and children and young people in residential/foster care. Most of her post-qualifying training has centred around attachment-informed therapeutic practices and Mindfulness. Sinead is around half-way through a Professional Doctorate at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Her research interests have mainly focused on the role of early attachment in the promotion of positive mental health outcomes. Sinead continues to provide training on art therapy to nursing and medical students in her NHS role.