Meet the Author

 A former Senior Teacher in Gloucestershire, England, Alyson Thomsen moved from the UK to Denmark, then on to the USA with her family, when her husband began working for LEGO® Systems. Having no previous experience of building with LEGO®, Aly was suddenly immersed in a world of plastic bricks, and her creativity and imagination were further piqued by the endless opportunities of brick-filled play when she trained as a LEGO® Education Certified Trainer in London.
      Upon arrival back in the UK, Aly was so enthusiastic about developing a creative curriculum based around LEGO® that she decided to set up her own educational consultancy “Bricks2Learn” and began to take her imaginative construction ideas into schools. 

Noticing that she was working with an increasing number of children that were struggling socially and emotionally within the school setting, Aly began her journey into the therapeutic world and as a consequence Thera-Build® was conceived, then developed.

     Aly continues to work with families, schools, charities and Trusts to provide quality commissioned projects for children,  offers 1:1 and small group Thera-Build® interventions and also provides training for parents, carers and professionals.
    She is the author of Thera-Build® with LEGO® and the Thera-Build® with LEGO® Resource Book and Aly now has a team of Licensed Practitioners that work with her across the UK.