Sinead Reed-Forrester is a visual anthropologist and specialist mentor at University of the Arts London, with accreditations in NLP coaching, counselling and neurodiversity. She has over a decade of experience in wellbeing and mental health across education, including work with UAL, UCL, The Open University and Ascend Education.

Sinead founded InnerMap to create the support she didn’t have: personalised, accessible and built around self-awareness. It brings the work she does with clients one to one into a form anyone can use, for as long as they need it.

Sinead Reed - Founder

Holly is a dramatherapist who qualified from Roehampton University in 2021. She works privately and within NHS CAMHS, where she specialises in therapy for young people in the care system, adopted young people and unaccompanied minors.

Holly's practice is non-pathologising, trauma-informed, collaborative and creative. She is committed to anti-oppressive practice and to decolonising her work through ongoing learning, training and supervision.

She has worked across a wide range of communities, including refugee and asylum seeker groups, primary, secondary and SEN schools, alternative provisions, adult psychiatric hospitals and charities.

At InnerMap, Holly advises on safeguarding, reviewing content and escalation pathways to help keep the app safe and supportive for young people.

Holly Smelt

Psychotherapist And Advisor

Paula Samantha

Advisor And Facilitator, Adolecent Psychotheraphy and Counsellor

Paula is a child and adolescent counsellor and psychotherapist with over ten years of experience in the education sector. Her work is rooted in supporting young people’s mental health, emotional development, and overall well-being.

Through her therapeutic background and experience in education, Paula brings a compassionate, grounded approach to helping young people better understand themselves, manage emotions, and build healthier relationships