Speaker
Sarah Temple
EMCC Coach and Director EHCAP Ltd
Biography
I became interested in how childhood experiences affect both physical and mental health outcomes when I was at medical school in the mid-eighties – my student project was on the social and physiological effects of intergenerational adversity. GP training in psycho-somatic medicine in the late nineties further enhanced my interest in attachment theory and introduced me to the Adverse Childhood Experiences data analysed in the seminal study by Anda and Felitti in 1998. In a break from General Practice, I worked in CAMHS and set up the infant and maternal perinatal network in Cornwall before moving to Dorset. I worked with Public Health Somerset between 2015 and 2022 creating neurodiversity inclusive, trauma-informed resources for use in schools and across services into communities.