About Us

Licensed Provider

Hazel Cunningham,previously a primary school  teacher, now runs Nurture Connections providing Health and Wellbeing support and nurture provision to schools and families. She is based in a school campus in Glasgow which encompasses two primary schools, a nursery and a Learning and Communication Unit. She runs regular Story Massage sessions as a safe and gentle approach to support children in building their self-esteem and developing relationships. She finds the creative and literary benefits of Story Massage can make a real difference, especially to children in nurture provision. Hazel is an admin of the ACEs Scotland Forum Facebook Group and as a Mental Health First Aider is passionate about Adverse Childhood Experience Awareness and using trauma informed approaches in educational settings.

Vicky is a Speech and Language Therapist working for a charity in a deprived area of Glasgow, she also works independently in schools delivering social skills groups, Zones of Regulation and Story Massage. Vicky is acutely aware of the impact Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma  have on vocabulary and language development and has found Story Massage to be a fantastic tool in boosting vocabulary and language development both within the school setting and with parents/ carers at home .

As the founding member and admin of the ACES Scotland Forum with more than 13K members, she is fiercely passionate about trauma informed practice in all sectors and settings and an advocate of Adverse Childhood Experience Awareness  particularly its impact on early brain and language development. Vicky presented as a guest speaker at the 2019 Story Massage on Considerations for Trauma Informed Practice and  holds a best practice award for her work with Story Massage. Vicky trained with Cecelia Koester in Movement Based Learning and is one of only  4 licensed trainers in the UK.