The Board

Andrew Dawson-Chair

Andrew Dawson is a Child Psychotherapist and Drama Therapist working in the West Glasgow Community Health and Care Partnership. Andrew originated the idea of Creative Therapies and created the company in 1996.

Linda Fleming

Linda is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of financial experience gained in the Private Sector.  Linda has been actively involved in the Arts for the last 8 years.More information coming soon…

Karen Ferguson

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Anne Greer

Anne is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.  Anne trained in Edinburgh from 1986-1991.  She took her first Consultant post in Ayrshire in 1993 and moved to Glasgow in 1998.  Anne has a special interest in Psychodynamic Group Therapy with Young People.

Louis Skehal

Louis is a former Social Worker and Community Worker and retired as Head of Service (Community Care) in 2006.  Louis also lectured at University of Glasgow for 2 years and has contributed to the development of best practice with Community Care Works based at Glasgow and latterly Strathclyde Universities.  After retrial Louis has carried out some consultancy work for the Scottish Executive with the Joint Improvement Team.  Louis s now a full time student at Glasgow School of Art studying Sculpture and Environmental Art.

Phyllis Steel – Company mentor

Phyllis has been involved with Creative Therapies since its inception in 1996.  She currently supports the different aspects of the company’s work and ongoing development as Company Mentor.

Office Team

Sarah Harwood

Sarah has a background of management consultancy within corporate private banking in both London and New York. Following significant marketing experience within the retail and pharmaceutical industries she was appointed Office Manager of the Glasgow Housing Association in 2000. She joined Creative Therapies as General Manager in 2006.  Sarah is married, lives in Glasgow, and has two children Charlotte and Angus.

Cathie Smith - Training Manager

Cathie has many years experience in business development through her work in engineering, selling steel to the oil and heavy fabrication industries.  She then spent 10 years in Italy where she worked as a consultant for Fiat developing and coordinating all of their English Language Programmes.  As a result of this Cathie started her own company designing business training and offering consultancy services to companies throughout Italy.  On her return to the UK, it was suggested to Cathie that her skills might be of value to the voluntary sector and she has indeed found this to be the most rewarding experience in her career.