Director of Innovation & Research
- Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health, London, Honorary Visiting Fellow at London Metropolitan University, Senior Associate of the Royal College of Medicine
- Child Psychotherapist with over thirty years experience working with children and families
- Author of over twenty books in child mental health, which collectively have been translated into eighteen languages and published in twenty-four countries
- Psychotherapist for Looked After Children and Teenagers for 10 years in residential care homes
- Author of the acclaimed book, 'The Science of Parenting' which achieved First Prize in the British Medical Association Book awards 2007 (Popular Medicine section). The book has also been voted one of the top 'brain books of our time' by The Dana Foundation
- 'Helping Children with Feelings’ series (Speechmark) are used as key therapeutic tools by child professionals all over the UK and abroad
- Co-Founding Director of the Higher Education College, The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education, academic partner of University of East London which runs Masters degree courses and Diplomas in Adolescent Therapy, Child Counselling and Parent-Child Therapy
- Principal Educator in Trauma Informed Practice
Margot is a member of the Early Years Commission, the Centre for Social Justice, Westminster, and co-author of the Cross Party Advisory Report ‘The Next Generation’ (early years intervention). She is Founder of ‘Helping Where it Hurts’ which is a programme offering free arts therapy to troubled children in North London Primary schools. Underpinning all her work is Margot's lifelong interest is neuroscience. Her research in this field originated with her Doctoral Thesis 'The Art and Science of the Psychological Treatment of Children'. This was based on 10 years of neuroscience tuition from the founder of Affective Neuroscience Professor Jaak Panksepp.
