General Practitioner

Dr. Fiona Grant graduated from University College Dublin in 1994. She completed her medical training in various hospitals in Leinster, and then went to London in 2000 to finish GP Vocational Training and to gain membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She returned to Dublin in 2001 and went into practice in Sandyford Village. she left Sandyford in 2009 to set up Stepaside Medical.

Her special interests include Women's Health, Paediatrics and Asthma.

Resident Counsellor & Psychotherapist

Louise Ward has a BSc (Hons) in counselling any psychotherapy and is also trained in advanced Cognitive Behavioral therapy. and Post traumatic stress disorder. She works in several area's of counselling including crisis intervention, loss and bereavement issues, depression and panic attacks, sexual abuse, loss of direction, low self esteem and low confidence issues. Louise also works with couples using a very different approach designed to bring couples back to a more intimate way of communicating and relating to one another.

Louise is also an experienced trainer and Facilitator in Ireland and Abroad. She has many years experience in counselling. Louise is a director of Zest4kidz, an overseas agency working with vulnerable children all over the world, working with rescued child prostitutes in India, ex child soldiers in Uganda and chlid prisoners in Belerus. She is married with three teenage daughters. Click here for Weedle Account.

Nurse

Patricia Hannan

Physical Therapist

Paula Roberts

Resident Speech and Language Therapists

Anna Gillman

Anna Gillman graduated with first class honours in a Masters in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Limerick. She has acquired vast clinical experience in a variety of settings; including an acute hospital in New York, and long stay hospitals and HSE local health centres in Ireland. She has gained a wide range of experience working with adults, children and adolescents with diverse communication difficulties. These include: aphasia, apraxia of speech, acquired dyslexia, functional voice disorders, speech and language delays, specific language impairment, stammering, autistic spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, cognitive-linguistic impairments and swallowing disorders.

Anna's recently completed research, relating to the language development of bilingual children, led to her being invited to present her findings at the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists' Conference in 2011. In continuing her professional development as a speech and language therapist, Anna regularly attends courses and seminars relating to her field. Some of these have included Derbyshire Language Scheme training, LAMH Module 1 training, Communication after Stroke Symposium, Speech Sound Disorders (Caroline Bowen), and Testing Phonology in Toddlers (Barbara Dodd)

Anna is a member of the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists. She is dysphagia qualified and is also a member of the Dysphagia Special Interest Group.

Catriona Lysaght

Before completing her Masters in Speech and Language Therapy in 2006, Catriona’s background was in education and linguistics, where she worked with children and young adults with language and behavioural difficulties, and in a physical disability setting in Speech and Language Therapy. On completion of her Masters, she worked for a number of years in an acute hospital, before moving to community adult services. She has since specialised in the treatment of feeding and swallowing disorders in the adult population, and provides services to over 30 nursing homes around Ireland. She has completed post-graduate specialised training in Adult Acquired Neurological Dysphagia, Videofluoroscopy Analysis, and Cervical Auscultation.

Catriona began work in private practice in 2009, and established her own clinic in 2010. The Speech Centre has now expanded to three locations, Dublin, Ennis and Mallow, and the team of Speech and Language Therapists is growing. Catriona is dedicated to furthering the professional development of herself and her team, and is involved in training Undergraduate and Masters level Speech and Language Therapy students.

Receptionists

Denise Quirino

Anne Moore