How my journey began

For 23 years I worked as a sole practitioner solicitor, running my own practice. I lived the pace, pressure, and emotional weight of the legal profession, managing clients in crisis, holding responsibility for outcomes, leading a team, and juggling the demands of work and family life. I know first-hand the toll it can take, the reactions it can trigger, and the resilience it requires.

As a mother of two daughters, now aged 27 and 25,  I found parenting to be very challenging at times and I always felt that I had something more to give to my girls but couldn’t quite find it.  I loved being a parent but some of my behaviours bothered me and I felt guilty at times.  I felt too that I wasn’t myself and that I was passing down learned behaviours but didn’t know how to change that.  

In my search for answers and with a desire to improve my own wellbeing and my relationship with my girls and others in my life, I returned to study at UCC. Here I completed a Certificate in Interpersonal Communications, a HDip in Relationship & Parent Mentoring, and a PGDip in Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing. Together, these form the foundation of the work I now love: helping people build awareness, communicate with clarity, and respond rather than react — in their workplaces, teams, and families.

Today, I speak and teach on topics that sit at the heart of both professional and personal life:

Communication and Courageous Conversations

Emotional Triggers & Self-Regulation

Responding vs Reacting

Mindset for Retirement & Career Transition

Parenting from the Heart

My approach is warm, grounded, and rooted in lived experience. I understand what it feels like to show up every day in a high-pressure environment while raising a family. As a mother of two adult daughters, I know the impact that stress, overwhelm, and reactivity can have at home, often long before we notice it in ourselves.

This combination of professional insight, personal experience, and specialised training allows me to meet people where they are at, whether they are professionals navigating a heavy workload andor parents longing for more connection and calm.

My sessions are engaging, practical, and gently transformative. They offer simple tools that make a real difference — tools I wish I’d had earlier in my own career and parenting journey.

If you’d like to bring greater emotional awareness, resilience, and connection into your organisation or community, I would love to work with you.