💬 Why We Started Moving MindSpace
We’ve all lived it — the confusion, exhaustion, and heartbreak of navigating broken systems while trying to support neurodivergent children. We created Moving Mindspace because families deserve better. Together, we’ve blended personal experience with professional expertise to build a service that’s creative, trauma-informed, and rooted in real life.
🌟 Peter Dutton
“Where trauma meets trust, and healing begins.”
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, ad addiction, and outdoor therapy into his work. He is also a clinical supervisor and lifelong learner.
Peter is a Dad of 4 children, 2 that’s have been diagnosed with Autism and ADHD.
🌟 Charlene Rolls
“The voice every struggling parent wishes they had beside them.”
SEND Advocate | Parent Voice Champion | EHCP 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 is currently undergoing assessment for ADHD herself, bringing further nuance and depth 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.
🌟 Christopher Cooper
“Bringing justice and neurodiversity together — from prisons to playgrounds.”
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.
A trained Mental Health First Aider, Suicide & Self-Harm (SASH) trainer, and First on Scene instructor, Chris combines lived experience as an ADHD-diagnosed parent of neurodivergent children with deep professional insight, offering a compassionate and informed approach to support and advocacy.
Chris is also a Dad of 6 with 2 of his children being diagnosed with Autism and himself being ADHD he has the ability and understanding of how to work with individuals and bring the best out of them on a day to day basis.
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We’re proud to have created a service where young people don’t have to fit into a box to succeed — and where parents and carers are never left behind.