Jess is a therapist specialising in the world of trauma and the neurobiological impact of adverse experience on the developing brain. She has invested thousands of pounds into her own development and recently published a book which she co-wrote with Dr Renee Marks. Jess is now trained in the Assessment and Treatment of complex trauma and dissociation in children and adolescents. Upon qualifiying Jess went in search of a local trauma treatment centre for children, so she could go and ask them for a job. She searched and searched and couldn't find it. She was looking for a place that was offering treatment without medication to children who have PTSD and complex trauma and it wasn't there. "And the reason it wasn't there was because it is so hard to find funding for these children because you cannot treat trauma with a medication so there's no big money in it. Well I just thought that was wrong on so many levels, why is there this huge gap that leaves children suffering because it's harder to find money to treat them? There was this huge gap between offering a limited number of counselling sessions which wasn't enough for them and other services that medicate and diagnose (the child usually has to be displaying really extreme behaviours to even be accepted into the service.) So this really irritated me because I want to help children and adolescents because they deserve a childhood. I thought all it takes is one person with a big passion to just provide something and prove there's a need, prove that these children can be helped and successfully treated and then maybe other people will get on board and then we can make a huge difference to the lives of children. I'm so proud, excited, scared and generally overwhelmed to tell you that 'The Gap (Bedfordshire) Limited' has been born. I'll be based in Bedford town centre in my own self contained premises where I will be treating traumatised children for as long as I possibly can". Jess has no financial backing.