About Me

A woman with auburn hair smiling at the camera, seated at a wooden table with a cup of coffee.

I am a BACP registered integrative therapist and certified DPP practitioner, with more than 30 years of experience. I work with children, young people and adults, offering individual and dyadic therapy both in the Brighton & Hove area and online.

This dynamic approach enables me to meet you where you are, in a way most suited to your difficulties as you see them.

I am the creator of Allado, a provider of education support to children and young people living with relational trauma and loss, as well as specialist training for those caring for them.

I was also the founder of ToucheBase, an organisation that ran for more than 12 years to provide therapy, education support, community projects and training.

As well as founding specialist mental health, community, training and education teams, I am a published author of many books and papers.

Qualifications

  • PGDip Therapeutic Communication with Children  

  • Cert Education of Emotions  

  • Certification in DDP 

  • DDP Training Levels 1 and 2 

  • Specialist Attachment trainings with pioneering UK and US specialists in trauma recovery

  • Diploma in Therapy

  • B.Ed (Hons) Education & Psychology 

Memberships

I have experience being part of the following organisations:

  • Advisory Group on the Practice Guide for Interventions for Foster Carers and Adoptive Parents (Feb 2025 - present), Foundations 

  • Advisory Council, Transforming Lives for Good (TLG)  (2016-2022)

  • Council of Reference, Home For Good (HFG) (2016 - 2018)

  • Founder, Attachment Lead Network UK (2016 - 2025)

  • Emotional Consortium for Emotional Well-being in Schools (2013)

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 

As a therapist, it is vital that I undergo continuing professional development (CPD). CPD ensures I maintain requirements of my professional registration and that the therapy I offer always integrates the latest research findings. Crucially, it also enables me to provide the latest approaches that suit your individual needs. 

Some of my recent CPD includes:

2024 – 2025

  • Dr Sian Phillips – Working with stuck nervous systems 

  • Michael Rosen’s Sad Book – Theatre production and post-performance discussion regarding mourning and loss

  • Louis Sydney – Compassion Therapy

2023 – 2024

  • Dr Kim Golding – Supporting parents and carers with Blocked Care 

  • Dr Karen Triesman – Trauma-informed work with organisations 

  • Dr Graham Music - Integrating mind and body when working with trauma 

2022 – 2023

  • Dr Jamie Carter - FASD 

  • Dr Ruth Cureton - Dissociation 

  • Andrea Perry – Ambiguous loss 

  • Dr Graham Music – Neglect of neglect 

2021 – 2022

  • Vincent Dance Theatre – Supporting clients to engage with their trauma story 

  • Circle of Security Model – Jenny Peters 

  • Mikenda Plant – Working dyadically 

  • Sarah Lloyd - BUSS Model part 2

2020 – 2021

  • Dr Karen Treisman - Working with trauma 

  • Dr Graham Music, Jo Stubley.- Working with trauma at the Tavistock   

  • Craig Warnock - Using Zoom for therapy

  • Ali Davies – Speech, Language and Attachment 

  • Andrea Perry – Baby Watching (Empathy) 

  • Sarah Lloyd – Sensory Attachment 

  • Dan Hughes: Impact of Trauma on the Body  

  • Dr Jamie Carter – Developmental trauma 

  • Circle of Security Model – Jenny Peters 

  • Touchbase CPD session: Mikenda Plant – Working dyadically 

  • Sarah Lloyd - BUSS Model part 1

Publications

Bombér L. M., (2026) ‘The Handbook of transitions big and small. Supporting children and young people to navigate change in education.’ Worth Publishing.

Bombér L. M et al., (2025) Restoring Education: Educators paving the way to radical change through relationship, Worth Publishing

Bombér L. M., Golding K. S., Phillips S., (2020) ‘Working with Relational Trauma in Schools: An Educator's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice’, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Bombér L. M., (2020) Know me to teach me: Differentiated discipline for those recovering from Adverse Childhood Experiences, Worth Publishing

Bombér L. M., (2016) Box Set of Attachment Aware Schools books: Bridging the Gap for Troubled Pupils, Worth Publishing

Williams B., Bombér L. M., Briggs D., Peart E., Young R., (2015) ‘Capacity to Change: Understanding and Assessing a Parent’s Capacity to Change within the Timescales of the Child, Jordan Publishing

Bombér L. M., Hughes D., (2013) ‘Settling to learn’, Worth Publishing

Bombér L. M., (2011) ‘What About Me?: Inclusive Strategies to Support Pupils with Attachment Difficulties Make it Through the School Day’, Worth Publishing

Bombér L. M., (2007) ‘Inside I'm Hurting: Practical Strategies for Supporting Children with Attachment Difficulties in Schools’, Worth Publishing