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The Team

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Padraig began his career in healthcare with a BA in Social Care from MTU. He worked as a Social Care Worker in residential homes, supporting children from birth to adulthood.

 

Over his 12 years of professional experience, Padraig has worked with teenagers facing a variety of challenges, including complex trauma, ASD, ADHD, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.

In his role as a Family Support Worker, Padraig focused on parenting assessments with a strong emphasis on infant mental health and practical parenting skills. He mentors young people through the Big Brother program with Foróige, using a trauma-informed approach.

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Padraig pursued further education while balancing a full-time career and fatherhood, earning a BSc in Occupational Therapy from University College Cork. Recognizing the need for a strengths- and values-based approach in social care, he advanced his studies with a Master’s in Positive and Coaching Psychology, also at University College Cork.

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Today, Padraig runs his private practice, The OT Coach, where he offers therapeutic interventions and assessments for young people and adults who have experienced adversity. His specialties include trauma, sensory-attachment, positive psychology, and coaching, making him a trusted professional dedicated to fostering resilience and well-being.

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Laillí graduated from Occupational Therapy in UCC in 2021. After college, she worked as an Activity Leader in Barretstown Camp, Kildare a residential camp for children and families affected by cancer and other serious illnesses. Even though she wasn’t working as an OT in this role it allowed her to work in alignment with her beliefs and the underlying principles of occupational therapy, that engagement in occupations that are meaningful to a person, is beneficial to health and well being. This is the ethos that underpins all her work.

 

She loves working within the mental health space, she worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for almost two years, based in a community team with some experience in an inpatient unit and specialist eating disorder team. She is particularly interested in eating disorders and the impact they have on occupational participation and performance, and she is trained in cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders.

 She is also trained in the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Coaching, and Decider Skills for Emotional Regulation. Following her work in CAMHS, she worked as an Occupational Therapist in Australia for a year, where she worked with a wide variety of clients with various presentations, including ADHD, Autism, sensory processing difficulties, agoraphobia, dyspraxia and so on.

 

Her passion is working with people to support them in creating their best life, through

engagement in occupations that support their well being.

“Thank you…. I feel like I am living again. I thought I was a bad person because my only human interaction was at home and I hated it there and hated who I was there, now I know I am not a bad person thank you.”

LOB came to the service after many months of isolation from his peers and negative interactions at home with his family. Family had become to dislike himself and held shame in who he had become.

“ I am a bit overwhelmed that for the first time in years my child has had connections with people whom care about them and how quickly this has come together. To think it has just been a few months where your first interaction was 10 min through a doorway to this. Thank you so much for getting through to them and supporting the.  I genuinely believe this was lifesaving”

KG came to the service through a referral to access home sessions as she had been to get her son to attend sessions in a clinic.  

Qualifications & Training

The OT Coach team is committed to enhancing their learning and knowledge base. They engage in regular supervision and engage in on-going CPD as part of their practice.

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  • MA In Positive & Coaching Psychology

  • BSc Occupational Therapy

  • BA In Applied Social Studies in Social Care

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  • Sensory Attachment Integration for Adults and Adolescents

  • Psycho-Sensory Intervention: Advanced Practitioners

  • Just Right State Trainer

  • Resilience and Self compassion training

  • Practice Assessment of Children and Young People With DCD

  • Assessment of executive for children and young people

  • Adverse Childhood Experience training

  • Motor & Sensory Considerations in Attachment

  • Trauma Informed Practice by Dr Karen Treisman

  • Digital Safety in Practice Perspectives on safeguarding children online

  • Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training 

  • Management of Actual or Potential Aggression (MAPA)

  • Child Protection Training (regularly updated)

  • Safe Talk Training

  • First aid training

  • QQI Level 6 Train the Trainer

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  • CORU Registered Occupational Therapist (Registration Number: Ot045721)

  • AOTI Registered (Registration Number: (8452)  

  • ​Member of The International Federation of Coaching

  • Arachas Insured

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