About Us

The Team

Tania Richards has worked for over 21 years as a Speech and Language Therapist and really loves her work!

As a mother of four Tania know's how hard parenting can be, especially when you are worried about your child's development. She has helped hundreds of children struggling with speech, language and communication, and it is a real privilege to work with them and see their progress. It is a real satisfaction seeing the positive difference Tania can make to her clients and their families. It's an extremely rewarding job.

Tania graduated in 2002 from De Montfort University in Leicester and has extensive experience working as a therapist with individual clients, schools and charities across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and the Midlands. She specialises in autism, special educational needs and learning disabilities, but can help with all sorts of speech, language and communications needs.

Tania is the founder of Figureofspeechandlanguage. Please visit her website for greater details of her experience and working knowledge.

Dr Astrid van Wilsem is a Clinical Psychologist specialised in autism. Apart from being an experienced autism assessor Astrid also has extensive experience with children, young people and adults who have been diagnosed with autism and need psychological intervention. Furthermore, she trained as a bereavement counsellor.

Astrid has worked for different neuro-developmental teams in the NHS and through her private practice she has helped to reduce their waiting list for autism assessments. In her extended family she has relatives with a diagnosis of autism. This has given her experience and insight into living with autism, which she finds a very useful attribution to her professional practice.

Alex Centurion- Eyre started his career training as a Mental Health Nurse in 2014. Throughout his career he has gained experience and training in acute mental health wards for adults and older adults, as well as home treatments and working with crisis teams for children, young people and adults. Alex has also worked with psychiatric liaison services, community CAMHS and adult inpatient community rehabilitation.

Upon qualifying Alex trained as a clinical nurse specialist whilst in CAMHS to conduct diagnostic assessments for autism using the ADOS-2, ADI-R and RAADS assessment for children, young people and adults. He also trained in the use of the Young DIVA, a semi-structured interview for assessment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as per the DSM V criteria.