Maureen is a qualified Music Therapist and Holistic Practitioner with extensive clinical experience across healthcare, educational, and community-based settings. Her work is grounded in evidence-based practice, professional ethics, and a client-centred therapeutic framework.

​​​

She holds a First Class Honours Master’s degree in Music Therapy  from the University of Limerick, in addition to a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology and a qualification in education. Her multidisciplinary background informs a structured and integrative approach to therapeutic care.

​​

Maureen has worked with both adults and children across a broad range of clinical presentations, including:

​​

• Mental health difficulties (anxiety, depression, trauma-related presentations)

• Intellectual and developmental disabilities

• Grief and bereavement

• Perinatal and postnatal mental health

• Palliative care and life-limiting illness

• Dementia and age-related cognitive decline

• Stress-related conditions and burnout                                                                      

She has delivered services within educational settings, intellectual disability services, mental health services, palliative care environments, and community organisations. In addition, she facilitates staff wellbeing workshops and therapeutic group programmes.

​​​

Clinical Services

​

• Individual Music Therapy (children and adults)

• Group Music Therapy

• Therapeutic support within healthcare and educational settings

• Staff wellbeing and resilience workshops

• Holistic and complementary therapeutic sessions                                                           

All services are tailored to the specific needs of the individual, family, or organisation. Interventions are goal-oriented where appropriate and may support emotional regulation, communication, cognitive engagement, trauma processing, grief work, and overall psychological wellbeing.

Her therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, strengths-based, and developmentally attuned. Music therapy interventions may include active music-making, improvisation, receptive listening, songwriting, and verbal processing, depending on client needs and therapeutic goals.

​​​

Holistic & Complementary Practice

In addition to her clinical music therapy training, Maureen holds professional qualifications in:

​

• Bioenergy Therapy (Energy Healing Diploma – School of Light, accredited by the International Institute for Complementary Therapists)

• Vibrational Medicine / Sound Therapy (Diploma – Shannon Estuary Retreat Training Academy, accredited by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine).                                                                                                                 

These modalities are offered as complementary services and can be integrated where clinically appropriate.

​​

Professional Standards & Development

Maureen is committed to continuing professional development and evidence-informed practice. She is currently undertaking further study in Anatomy and Physiology to deepen her clinical knowledge base.

Her work adheres to professional ethical standards, with a strong emphasis on confidentiality, safeguarding, and collaborative care.

​​​