Meet the team
Viki Clapham
Founder
Role: Child-centred play therapist & family therapist
Viki has a long-standing interest in early childhood development and the relationships that shape us. Before training as a therapist, she spent many years working with children and families within educational and nursery settings and it was during this time that her curiosity about behaviour, emotional expression and family dynamics deepened.
Both her professional training and personal experience inform the way she works. Viki takes a holistic, relationship-focused approach, believing that meaningful change happens when we look beyond behaviour alone and take time to understand a child within their wider relational, emotional and developmental world.
At the heart of her practice is play. With strong roots in early years work, Viki has always been drawn to the way children communicate through play and creative expression. For many children, words are not always available or enough, play offers a more natural, authentic language.
Alongside play therapy, Viki offers parent consultations, consultation and reflective practice for professionals, and support for schools. She is a recognised provider for local adoption teams through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), and works with a number of local authorities supporting children in Special Guardianship (SGO) and Looked After Children (LAC) arrangements.
Viki is currently studying under Dr Daniel Siegel, integrating Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) as a framework within her practice, deepening her focus on connection, regulation, and the ways relationships shape the developing brain across the lifespan.
Outside of her work, Viki enjoys spending time with her family and being outdoors. These moments help her stay grounded and remind her of the importance of connection, presence and balance that sit at the heart of her therapeutic work.
Availability: Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Specialist tags: IPNB (Dan Siegel) · Trauma-informed · Attachment-based · ASGSF provider (adoption support) · SGO & LAC · Creative approaches · Workshops and training · Reflective practice for schools
Megan Pitts
Associate Therapist
Role: Associate child & family therapist
Megan is a child and family therapist who works integratively, using play and creative expression to support growth, healing and connection. With over eight years of clinical experience alongside fifteen years working across care and education settings, she brings a holistic and relationship-focused approach to her therapeutic work.
Alongside her work at Pebble Family, Megan runs her own practice, Inner Worlds Therapy, supporting schools across Manchester and Cheshire.
Her work with schools includes play therapy for children, supervision and reflective practice for staff, and parent consultation. Megan is particularly interested in creating safe, supportive spaces where adults can explore the emotional weight of their work and strengthen their relationships with the children in their care.
Megan is an accredited therapist for Adoption Counts and works with a diverse and often complex caseload. She is deeply committed to learning from the children she supports, valuing the rich stories they bring and the ways they build self-mastery over time. Reflecting children's strength and resilience back to them is something Megan considers one of the most powerful and meaningful aspects of her work.
In addition to her therapeutic practice, Megan delivers workshops on developmental trauma and child development.
Outside of work, she writes poetry and continues to learn through life with her two very different, and equally wonderful, children.
Availability: Mondays and Thursday evenings
Specialist tags: ASGSF provider (Adoption support) · Developmental trauma · Reflective practice for schools · Creative approaches
Steph Malam
Associate Therapist
Role: Play and creative arts therapist
Steph brings over 20 years of experience supporting children and families in schools, care and private settings. She provides a warm, consistent, accepting environment where children can express themselves and explore their feelings at their own pace, in a space that truly belongs to them.
Before becoming a therapist, Steph spent many years as a primary school teacher specialising in Early Years. That experience gave her a deep understanding of child development and how children communicate through play. She was always drawn to children whose feelings showed up in their behaviour, and wanted to work in a way that genuinely honoured how they express themselves and who they are.
In the playroom, children guide the process. Play serves as their language and the materials they select become their words. Steph's role is to be fully present and attuned, noticing, reflecting and holding the emotional space so children feel genuinely understood. She works closely with parents, carers and schools, offering guidance and practical support to help the adults around a child feel informed and confident.
Steph has extensive experience supporting looked-after, fostered and adopted children, as well as neurodivergent children, including those with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, PDA and EBSA.
Outside of work, Steph loves spending time with her family on the beaches, hills and coastal paths of the Llŷn Peninsula. She enjoys simple things; a good laugh, fresh air and a strong coffee, and tries to notice small moments of joy in everyday life, especially on the harder days.
Availability: Monday evening and Tuesdays
Specialist tags: Looked after children · Neurodivergent · EBSA · Early Years · Trauma-informed
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