Kelly is a highly experienced criminal justice practitioner and consultant, with over 20 years’ experience working across probation, youth justice, trauma-informed practice, and multi-agency systems. Her work spans frontline delivery, court-based assessment, programme design, and international consultancy, grounded in a deep understanding of risk, trauma, and desistance.

Kelly began her career in local authority services before spending over 18 years within HM Prison and Probation Service, working with adults and young people in both community and court settings. She is highly skilled in risk assessment, crisis intervention, safeguarding, and motivational approaches, and is known for her ability to build strong, trusting relationships across diverse and complex contexts.

Alongside her probation practice, Kelly has worked as a Consultant with Penal Reform Solutions, delivering and co-designing intervention programmes in the UK and internationally, including training probation practitioners overseas. She now works as a Consultant with Grow Transform Belong, where she brings her extensive frontline experience, trauma-informed expertise, and facilitation skills to support culture change, practitioner wellbeing, and effective, relational practice across justice and allied systems.