Our Team
Selina Smyth
Selina is Co-CEO of Family Journeys. She has an BA Honours Degree and a 1st class MSc in Psychology with further post qualifications in developmental psychotherapy and extensive education in complex trauma and early attachment. Selina is a strategic thinker and compassionate leader with over 20 years psychology experience working with complex families across Middle East, Africa and UK. Selina has a wealth of experience across private, public and third sector. More recently Selina has spent over a decade in management roles, leading remote, virtual and practice teams across the world, focussed on delivering trauma informed leadership and child led practice which sits at the heart of her leadership and service delivery.
Karen Ramsay
Administration Officer
Eleni Alexandropoulou
Family Connections Worker
Emma McCreadie
Family Connections Worker
Cheryl McAllister
Family Connections Worker
Ciara May
Family Connections Worker - Lead
Charylea Mason
Family Connections Worker
Kat Daly
Mediator
Gordon Wu
Family Connections Worker
Lorina Gilroy
Co-Regional Manager
Federica Southwell
Court & Solicitor Liaison Officer
Meena Hussein
Family Connections Worker
Sarah Pryde
Receptionist, Admin & Finance
Jane Denmark
Jane is a Co-CEO of Family Journeys. She has a BSc Honours Degree and a 1st class BA Honours in Social Work with further post qualifications in Child Safeguarding and Welfare, as well as Systemic Family Therapy. Jane has over 20 years’ experience working with children and family organisations across the third sector and has more recently led and managed the strategic growth of best practice across family services in Scotland. Her passion for the protection and safeguarding of children, children’s rights and holistic family support is at the heart of her leadership and practice.
As newly appointed (2021) Co-CEO's Selina Smyth and Jane Denmark are committed to making sustainable meaningful change within Family Journeys that supports the commitments made at National Level. Their vision is one that significantly promotes the voice of the child and gives paramount consideration to the needs of the child and the families that care for them.
Together they bring 40 years of child protection, trauma, attachment and social work experience plus design and delivery of intensive family support services having worked for many years in the third and private sector with care experienced and vulnerable children and families.
Anne Mealyou
Mediator
Juliet McCann
Family Connections Worker
Lindsay Elliott
Mediator
Charles McGregor
Family Connections Worker
Chelsea Cawkwell
Family Connections Worker
Christine Connerton
Mediator & Family Connections Worker
Emily Magee
Peer Leadership Development & Family Connections Worker
Fiona Cockbain
Family Connections Worker
Katrina MacDonald
Family Connections Worker
Kelly Dunnett
Co-Regional Manager
Lorraine Cruikshank
Family Connections Worker
Sanel Contreras
Fathers Worker
Sarah Monger
Finance Officer
Silke Duncan
Family Connections Worker