Louise Storie

Louise is a highly experienced practitioner in the field of neurodiversity. She has experience of strategic and operational service leadership and development having worked across children and young people services, adult services, residential and mental health service sectors throughout her career spanning 28 years. 

Louise is currently head of external training, consultancy and advice at the Donaldson Trust, Scotland’s National Body for Neurodiversity.  She supports colleagues to both strategically and operationally develop and implement practice frameworks including SPELL and SYNERGY, and to ensure wellbeing is embedded through practice to support all children, young people, and adults. For the past 2 years Louise has been a trainer on The National Autism Trainer Programme for the Anna Freud Centre and A-T autism. This programme was designed for NHS England and was rolled out across the country to improve practice and outcomes for autistic people.

Throughout her extensive career she has worked with individuals, businesses and organisations across the United Kingdom to facilitate, mentor and deliver support, learning and development to improve the experiences of neurodivergent people.