An Roelands is an independent VIPP-SD and VIPP-FC Trainer and Supervisor since 2016. She became a VIPP-SD/FC Intervener in 2014 and has since been using it daily in foster care. Next to VIPP-SD she also works with Sherborne developmental movement. She has a private practice as a therapist were she focuses on parents and the very tiny humans. She became a VIPP-SD Senior Trainer in 2024.

Jenny Ortiz is a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2020. Currently working as assistant professor at Universidad del Rosario, located Bogota-Colombia. She has been involved in the translation of the VIPP-SD manual into Spanish and tested the effectiveness of the VIPP-CC for child care workers in Centros CAIF in Uruguay and VIPP-SD for rural mothers in Colombia.

Majbritt Vonsild is a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2024

Mette Bagge Møller is a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2024 and a project health nurse at the Danish National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark. Since 2020, she has worked on the development and implementation of an adaptation of VIPP-SD interventions for infants and young children through the Infant Health research project. Since 2025, she has also been involved in the WellCom research project, where she works with an online VIPP-SD intervention for children of mothers with mental health conditions, focusing on early mental health among Infants and parent–child relationships.

Nina Marie Lassen is VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Early Intervention and Family Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on early detection and intervention, and as part of her PhD, she conducted a study in collaboration with Tine Steenhoff exploring the feasibility of implementing VIPP-SD in Denmark, targeting children with externalizing difficulties.

Tine Steenhoff is a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2024.

Francesca Lionetti is a Professor of Developmental Psychology and VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2014. She is based at University of Pavia, Italy. She has been involved in the evaluation VIPP-SD for adoptive families, and she has conducted research on attachment and social-emotional development. Her current area of research includes investigation of the individual-environment interplay within the Environmental Sensitivity framework. She became a VIPP-SD Senior Trainer in 2024.

Lavinia Barone is VIPP-SD  Senior Trainer and Supervisor since 2017 and is currently working as Full Professor and Director of the Lab on Attachment and Parenting at the University of Pavia, Italy. She has been leading a study testing the effectiveness of an adaptation of VIPP-SD for families with adoptive children and a study with low-SES mothers in Colombia. She is a VIPP-SD Senior Trainer since 2024.

Claudia Vrijhof is a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2018.

Claudia Werner is a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2014.

In 2002, Estelle Struis was trained at Leiden University, to be one of the first VIPP-SD Interveners. She became VIPP-SD Supervisor in 2003 and VIPP-SD Senior Trainer in 2007, when she collaborated with Prof. dr. Femmie Juffer to further develop the VIPP-SD Training Course. She has been working as an independent VIPP-SD Senior Trainer and Supervisor since 2011. She is also available to consult about implementation of VIPP and she is dedicated to training new trainers and supervisors. Since 2023, she is co-founder and board member of VIPP-SD International. In 2024 she became VIPP-SD Director.

Lisanne Marijs is a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2015.

Marije Stoltenborgh is a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2014 and a VIPP-SD Senior Trainer since  2019. She has been involved in a study testing the effectiveness of the adaptation VIPP-FC for foster and adoptive parents. She is currently combining training and supervising VIPP-SD Interveners with her job as a teacher at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University. Since 2023 she is co-founder and board member of VIPP-SD International. She became VIPP-SD director in 2024.

During her research project Nikita Schoemaker became VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor in 2015. In this research project she investigated the effectiveness of VIPP-SD in Dutch foster families. Nikita is currently working as a lecturer at Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Whitney de Haan is a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2018.

Eloise Stevens has been a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2017 and a VIPP-SD Trainer since 2024. She is currently working as Clinical Researcher at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, where she trains and supervises NHS perinatal mental health practitioners in VIPP/VIPP-SD, as well as developing and testing a new online programme which uses video-feedback to encourage parents to playfully and sensitively explore books with their young children, to promote language development and socio-emotional development. She has previously worked on various studies testing the effectiveness of VIPP for different groups in the UK including a large scale RCT called Healthy Start, Happy Start with children with behavioural difficulties, as well as smaller studies with foster parents, parents with personality disorders and primary school teachers.

Emily Durling is a VIPP-SD Supervisor since 2021 and a VIPP-SD Trainer since 2025. 

She works as a Clinical Psychologist with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions. She also co-ordinates a Postgraduate Diploma at University College London in working therapeutically with children (< 5 years), this is in collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre.

Jane Iles trained as a VIPP Intervener in 2012, and has been working as a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2014. She is a Clinical and Research Psychologist, working as an Associate Professor at the University of Surrey, UK. She has been involved in several studies using VIPP-SD, including in perinatal mental health teams and with parents of young children at risk of behavioural difficulties. Jane has also been involved in developing an adaptation of VIPP-SD for use with two parents or caregivers (VIPP-CO). Jane has delivered VIPP-SD training to teams across England and Europe, and most recently has been commissioned by NHS England to train practitioners in perinatal mental health teams across England. Since 2024 she is a VIPP-SD Senior Trainer.

Jess Elmer is a Principal Clinical Psychologist and works as a Clinical Lead in a specialist perinatal and early years mental health team at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She trained in VIPP-SD in 2013 when she first joined the Trust has been using VIPP/VIPP-SD in her clinical work ever since. Jess has experience in offering VIPP to families experiencing multiple and complex social and mental health difficulties and/or whereby families are under the social care system. She worked on the Tavistock Post Adoption Support project, offering VIPP-Family Placement to newly adopted children and their parents.

Jess became a VIPP-SD Supervisor in 2021 and has offered VIPP supervision to clinicians from many different NHS and Local Authority settings. Jess now works as the VIPP/VIPP-SD Lead for the Tavistock and became a VIPP-SD Trainer in 2024. She is currently working with Adoption England to train and supervise social workers to offer VIPP-Family Placement as part of their post adoption support offer.

Dr Paul Dugmore is a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2017 and is currently working as Director of Education (Learning and Teaching) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London. He has been involved in a study evaluating the effectiveness of an adaptation of VIPP-SD for adoptive families in the UK.

Rachel James is a VIPP-SD Trainer and Supervisor since 2017 and is currently working as the Children, Young Adult and Family Director at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. She has been involved in a study evaluating the effectiveness of an adaptation of VIPP-SD for adoptive families in the UK.