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Dr Aoife Lonergan

Chartered Senior Clinical Psychologist

Dr Aoife Lonergan is a Chartered Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, young adults and their families across mental health, neurodevelopmental and specialist paediatric services. Aoife currently works at Children's Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street, providing specialist psychological assessment and support for children and young people with neurological and complex medical conditions. She is also a visiting lecturer on the MSc in Neuropsychology programme at Trinity College Dublin.

Aoife believes that understanding each child's individual strengths, needs and experiences is central to a meaningful psychological assessment. Her aim is to provide families with greater clarity and practical guidance to support their child at home, in school and in everyday life.

Aoife's approach is neuroaffirmative, collaborative and evidence-based. She understands that seeking a psychological assessment can feel uncertain or overwhelming, and she aims to make the process clear and supportive, ensuring parents feel heard and actively involved throughout.

Aoife's work is informed by specialist postgraduate training in Clinical Paediatric Neuropsychology at University College London and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from University College Dublin.

Above all, Aoife hopes families leave with a deeper understanding of their child, greater confidence in supporting them, and a clearer sense of the path ahead.

B.A., H.Dip., MSc, PhD Clinical Psychology, P.G. Dip Clinical Paediatric Neuropsychology

Dr Áine Herlihy

Chartered Senior Clinical Psychologist

Dr Áine Herlihy is a Chartered Senior Clinical Psychologist (M15898C), with 16 years of clinical experience, having worked across a variety of HSE settings (Children's Disability Network Teams (CDNT), CAMHS, Adult Mental Health Services, Primary Care and Older Adult Services).

Áine is deeply committed to providing evidence-based, neuroaffirmative autism assessments. She has developed a particular specialism in differential diagnosis and has acted as an expert witness, assisting the High Court in complex medicolegal cases relating to birth injury, autism, ADHD, intellectual disability and rare genetic conditions.

Áine has previously lectured on Developmental Psychology across the lifespan for the Master's in Art Therapy at Munster Technological University (MTU).

Recognising the importance of the early years in laying the foundations for good long-term mental and physical health, Áine is especially passionate about supporting babies and their carers during the first three years of life. She has undertaken specialist international training in infant mental health, birth trauma and the neuroscience of infant sleep.

Given that a strong parent-child relationship significantly shapes a child's future, Áine's approach centres on supporting this connection; helping parents to understand and respond to their child's unique needs and strengths, while also recognising and understanding their own unique needs and strengths within the parenting relationship.

She brings broad clinical experience to her work, alongside a warm, compassionate and evidence-based approach.

BA Applied Psychology, MA Integrative Counselling, PhD in Clinical Psychology