Kristin Ricci
has experience of working with children and adolescents in diverse settings including education, the health service and private care homes. She is based in the northeast of England and is currently employed in a child and family department and a young people's unit within the NHS. She is working with her colleagues at the child and family department to establish art therapy pilots in schools.
Kristin has a keen interest in developing tools to measure the efficacy of art therapy as a treatment and service within different institutions. The cooperative is important for her to reflect on the value of art therapy for young people and schools.


Zara Rochfort
has worked extensively as a school art therapist in a variety of educational settings. She is currently working in schools within London and Hertfordshire. Zara is an active member of the Art Therapy in Education group of the British Association of Art Therapists. The most valuable aspects of being part of a co-operative of art therapists, for Zara, include sharing creative ideas and engaging in activities such as making art work together as a group.
An exciting development that she is involved in this year is a regional database project that brings together arts therapists (art, dance movement, drama and music, respectively) who are working within education.


Jody Spargo
has been working with children and adolescents since qualifying in 2001. This work has been based in schools and in a residential setting for looked after children. As an art therapist and artist Jody has an interest in all forms of visual communication. Over the last 3 years this has led her to study British Sign Language. She believes that where possible children should be able to access therapeutic support in their first language, and now feel able to offer this to Deaf children.
For Jody, membership of the cooperative has been enormously supportive and empowering. She feels that through sharing our ideas, experiences and our difficulties, each of our practices has been strengthened.


Fuyuko Takeda
qualified as an art therapist from the University of Hertfordshire in 2001. Since then she has worked with children and adolescents in mainstream primary schools, an education support centre, special schools for children with moderate learning difficulties, and a private care home in South East England. She values being a member of the cooperative for their support and for having an opportunity to share experiences.
She has a particular interest in children with autistic spectrum disorder and is currently working towards a PhD in psychology. The research title is; "Art therapy as an intervention for enhancing the capacity for imagination in children with moderate autism".

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