Meet The Team

Aisling Kelly | Director of Parenting and Professional Development Services

Lisa Nolan | Family Support Worker

Mary Pierce | Counsellor

Elaine McKiernan | Parenting Administrator

Lorraine Ryan | Parenting Administrator

Mandy Byrne | Lead Infant Mental Health Family Support Worker

Mandy has a BA Honors Degree in Early Learning Care and Education and a Masters in Child Family and Community.

She brings over fifteen years of experience in the Early Years sector, with a strong background in community-based services. She spent twelve years working in an early years setting within the Travelling community, where she developed a deep understanding of culturally responsive and relationship-based practice. Mandy currently coordinates the Infant Mental Health (IMH) Network in the Dublin 7 and Dublin 1 areas, working to embed IMH principles across community and early intervention services. Her role focuses on supporting parents and strengthening early parent–child relationships, both through group work and individual supports using the PUP (Parenting Under Pressure Framework). Mandy is passionate about ensuring that every child’s emotional development is nurtured from the very beginning, and that parents feel empowered and supported in their caregiving role. Mandy’s work is imbedded in the IMH principles and she facilitates baby massage classes and runs a PEEP stay and play group. Mandy is also a Rainbows coordinator and facilitates groups in schools.

Danielle Crimin | Play Therapist

Danielle is a fully accredited Play and Creative Arts Therapist of PTIrl, she has a Postgraduate Diploma in Play Therapy from the Academy of Play and Creative Psychotherapy, Galway (NUIG).

Danielle has worked in schools as well as private practice. She uses a holistic integrative approach in her practice. Children are encouraged to use art, clay, movement, sand play therapy and imagination to express themselves in the therapy room. Danielle is passionate about supporting children on their healing journeys, integrating the past and moving forward into growth and self-discovery. Danielle believes that building a trusting relationship between therapist and client is paramount for the therapy to be effective.

Susan McCormack | Play Therapist

Susan McCormack is a fully accredited child and adolescent psychotherapist and play therapist. She holds full accreditation with both the Irish Association for Play Therapy and Psychotherapy (IAPTP) and the European Association of Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP). Her career has spanned work in private practice, schools, hospitals, and multidisciplinary teams, allowing her to collaborate with teachers, social workers, and medical professionals to provide holistic and child-centred care. She has developed a deep understanding of child development, attachment, and neurodiversity and is particularly skilled in working with children facing anxiety, grief, behavioural difficulties, trauma, and emotional dysregulation.