Meet the Directors

Charlene Rolls

SEND Advocate | Parent Voice Champion | SEND Consultant

Charlene Rolls is a passionate and experienced Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) advocate, with a strong personal and professional commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people, and families navigating the complexities of the SEND system.

As a mother to a neurodivergent child with complex needs, Charlene brings an authentic and empathetic voice to her work, grounded in lived experience. Her personal journey through diagnosis, school systems, and EHCP processes has fuelled a deep determination to help other families feel empowered, heard, and supported.

Charlene runs several active online communities and Facebook support groups, offering peer support, resources, and real-time guidance to thousands of parents and carers across the UK. Her accessible, plain-language approach helps families feel confident when dealing with local authorities, schools, and healthcare services.

Professionally, Charlene consults on EHCP applications and reviews, helping families gather evidence, communicate their child’s needs effectively, and understand their rights. Her knowledge spans early years through to post-16 provision, and she is skilled in navigating Section F (provision), tribunals, and common points of dispute such as school refusal, exclusions, and unmet needs.

She also works in collaboration with schools and professionals to improve SEND understanding, champion neurodivergent inclusion, and provide real-life insights into what works. Charlene also has an ADHD diagnosis herself, bringing further personal insight to her work as an advocate.

Charlene’s approach is parent-informed, system-aware, and solution-focused. She believes that every child deserves to be understood and supported, and that parent voices are a powerful tool for systemic change.

At Moving MindSpace At Moving MindSpace, Charlene leads online SEND advocacy and EHCP support, helping families with practical paperwork, evidence, reviews, communication with schools and local authorities, and preparation for SEND appeals. Support is delivered by phone, email and video, including virtual meetings where agreed.

Christopher Cooper

Neurodiversity & Custodial Inclusion Specialist | Trainer | Keynote Speaker

Chris brings nearly a decade of experience in the UK prison service, working across both youth and adult custody as an Officer and Custodial Manager. He developed and now delivers neurodiversity training across the prison estate and successfully led the creation of a neurodiverse support unit within his local establishment, securing funding for additional resources independently.

Chris is also a keynote speaker, trainer, and advisor on reasonable adjustments in workplaces, and a patron of Team Avery Essex. He runs United for Charity, an annual celebrity football event promoting neurodiversity awareness.

Chris is a trained Mental Health First Aider, Suicide & Self-Harm (SASH) trainer and First on Scene instructor. As a dad of six, with two of his children diagnosed with autism, and as someone with ADHD himself, he brings personal understanding alongside professional experience, offering a compassionate and informed approach to support and advocacy.

At Moving MindSpace At Moving MindSpace, Chris contributes his experience in neurodiversity inclusion, training and safeguarding, supporting the organisation’s work with young people, families and professionals.

Peter Dutton

Therapist | Psychotherapist | Sports Psychologist | Educator

MBACP | CPCAB Level 5 | MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice

Peter Dutton is a qualified and experienced integrative psychotherapist with over a decade in private practice, specialising in performance psychology, emotional resilience, and mental health across elite sport, education, and community settings. His therapeutic work blends contemporary clinical models with deep relational insight, helping individuals move from survival to thriving.

Peter has supported young people, adults, and couples with a wide range of issues including anxiety, trauma, addiction, OCD, self-image, and identity. His integrative approach draws on CBT, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, and creative practices, tailored to each client’s unique needs. He is committed to embodied, trauma-informed work and often incorporates breath work, somatic check-ins, and intention setting into his sessions.

His experience spans high-pressure environments, including professional football where he provides one-to-one and group therapy to Premier League, WSL, and Olympic athletes. He also leads wellbeing and therapeutic work in schools including The British School of Brussels, Ongar Academy, New City College, and Woodlands College, and lectures in Sports Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University.

In addition to his private practice, Peter has worked with Harman House Counselling and the Working Centre, supporting people from diverse ethnic groups and faith backgrounds. His work in these settings reflects a strong commitment to accessible, culturally attuned therapy.

Through consultancy with Sporting Chance, Peter has helped shape mental health and addiction education across elite sport. He is passionate about challenging stigma, especially for high-performing men facing issues around shame, identity, and vulnerability. Peter continues to offer workshops and group sessions on anxiety, confidence, emotional intelligence, and addiction, and incorporates outdoor therapy into his work. He is also a clinical supervisor and lifelong learner.

Peter is a dad of four children, two of whom have been diagnosed with autism and ADHD.

At Moving MindSpace At Moving MindSpace, Peter helps shape the organisation’s therapeutic approach and provides guidance, tools and in-house training to mentors, drawing on his counselling expertise and lived experience as a SEND parent.