Our Team

Lauren has spent her career working in Health and Social Care with a focus on person centred support, rights, and voice. She brings a wealth of experience, most recently as Director of External Engagement at VoiceAbility, one of the UK’s largest advocacy and involvement charities. Lauren’s leadership career has been externally focused on income generation, public affairs, and communicating charity impact. This has involved developing and supporting partnerships with stakeholders across the statutory, voluntary, and community sector

Liza Freeman is SV2’s Head of Advocacy & Support and joined the team in 2017. Liza is responsible for the day to day management of the SARC service, ISVAs and the Police and Crime Commissioner’s support service. Liza has a wealth of experience around rape and sexual assault after working in similar services for many years.

Ellie Johnston is SV2’s Head of Therapy and has responsibility for all the therapy services, both children and adults. Ellie joined the team in February 2022, bringing with her experience of developing and managing counselling services in the charity sector. She has been a therapist for 17 years and more recently trained as a coach and an Insights Discovery Practitioner