Roisin is a Senior Educational and Child Psychologist with fifteen years’ experience of supporting children with developmental differences and disabilities across Special School; Health Service Executive Early Years/ School Age Disability and Enable Ireland-led Community Disability Network Teams. Roisin has also provided assessment and therapeutic intervention for children in Primary Care experiencing a wide range of challenges.

Roisin completed her undergraduate psychology degree through from University College Dublin and graduated from her Masters in Educational Psychology with a first class honours (UCD). Roisin is a Chartered Educational & Child Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). 

Roisin has many years’ experience completing play based developmental assessments to identify, therapeutically support and plan educational placements for children who present with developmental differences. She has worked collaboratively with families, children and young people to identify whether an individual is Autistic as well as to assess levels of Intellectual Disability. Roisin has experience of identifying ‘twice exceptionality’, that is children who are gifted but also face developmental challenges. Roisin has attended events with the National Autistic Society in UK in the area of identifying and supporting girls who are Autistic and has presented to colleagues on this topic. Roisin has provided a variety of evidence-based therapeutic interventions such as supporting Anxiety, particularly with children who are Autistic; supporting Emotional Regulation skills and also as part of an innovative Therapeutic Forest School intervention for children with complex needs.

Roisin has completed additional training in the area of Infant Mental Health through the Anna Freud Centre in London. Infant Mental health is the developing capacity of the infant/child to: experience, regulate and express emotions; form close interpersonal relationships with peers and adults and explore the environment and learn. Roisin is a member of the Irish Association for Infant Mental Health as well as the Psychological Society of Ireland’s Special Interest Group in Perinatal Infant Mental Health. Roisin is a trained Circle of Security Facilitator. This therapeutic model supports parents and care-givers to: understand their child’s emotional world; support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions; enhance the development of their child's self-esteem and honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure.

Roisin’s clinical practice is influenced by Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and rooted in the therapeutic approach of PACE: Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empath