Founder
Dr. Carolina Herbert — PhD, Integrative Arts Psychotherapist (UKCP), Clinical Supervisor (UKCP), Trainer (PGCE), Life-Cycle Celebrant. Carolina is a psychotherapist and creative arts practitioner with over 25 years of experience working in some of the most challenging places in the world. She spent over a decade in Cambodia where she co-founded the country's first Creative Arts Therapy institute and worked alongside organisations like Save the Children, the UN, and the Red Cross. She has worked with communities navigating war, displacement, and trauma across Asia, the Middle East, Turkey, India, and beyond — including supporting humanitarian workers and frontline staff in conflict zones.

Glenn Miles PhD is a child sexual abuse survivor, researcher and advocate in child safeguarding and human trafficking. He is a PhD supervisor in Holistic Child Development. His research interests include sexual exploitation of boys, men and transgender people, and understanding perpetrators, as well as a wide range of child labour in tea and cocoa plantations. He has 30 years' experience on these issues primarily in Asia. He is an author/editor of 5 books.   

Chansophal Mak (Sophal) is originally from Cambodia. Sophal received her PhD in Human Development and Family Science with Emphasis in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Georgia, USA, in 2023. In 2023-2025, Sophal completed a prestigious President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota, USA. Her postdoctoral research focused on parenting practices of Cambodian refugees in the United States.

Amy is an Expressive Arts Psychotherapist; trained as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). Her approach to psychotherapy integrates alternative, holistic, and traditional healing practices with mental health psychotherapies. She works with individuals of all backgrounds with a  specialization in complex cases, trauma, and international development work. Her practice includes expressive arts, somatic body-based techniques, mindfulness practice, and depth psychologies.

Matthew Fairfax is Co-Founder and Chair of the Justice and Soul Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit fighting human trafficking by training survivors and at-risk youth in cosmetology through the Kate Korpi Salon and Academy in Cambodia, giving them a trade and independence. He brings three decades of Human Resources and organizational development experience to this work, including as Director of Human Resources for Washington Dental Service (now Delta Dental of Washington), where he led compensation, benefits, organizational development, labor relations, and training.

Carrie MacLeod is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar-practitioner who has worked worldwide with communities, non-profit organizations and educational institutions for three decades. Her socially-engaged work moves at the intersections of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, involuntary migration, decolonial memory practices, performance and experiential pedagogy. Carrie is grateful to make a home on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. The syncopated songs of the sea and storied root systems in the forest floor shape the rhythms of her creative practice. 

Enda brings 25 years experience supporting MHPSS needs in Emergency and Developmental contexts.  His passion is working with individuals, groups, organizations & neurodiverse communities co-creating trauma informed and culturally attuned well-being support services that strengthen resiliencies, wellbeing, learning and creativity. His background is in Clinical Psychology and Expressive Arts Therapy; Facilitation/training; Organisational & Community Development.  He works with organizations, teams and individuals of different abilities to co-create empowering systems that promote and enable holistic well being.

Caroline Essame  is an early years specialist with over 40 years’ experience in clinical practice, education and international development. Trained in occupational therapy, arts psychotherapy with a Master’s in Educationshespecializes in nature, creativity and play and their impact on development and wellbeing.