Award Winning Occupational Therapy Service for Adults

Cork Occupational Therapy Services Ltd. is an established company, providing services in Ireland for over 20 years.

It can be hard to complete the things we need to or want to do. This can be because of illness, injury, disability or unexpected life events. Occupational therapy is a health care service that helps you do the things you want and need to do.

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 Our services can help both individuals and organisations. We provide assessments, intervention and support to individuals and organisations. We help people (their families, employers and organisations) achieve their goals. We promote participation, independence, function and safety.

We assess your health (psychological and physical) and your environments (social and physical). This helps us work with you to plan and achieve your personal or organisations goals.

We also offer consultancy occupational therapy services to individuals, organisations and employers.

We work with you to achieve your goals. We promote health, wellness and engagement in tasks.

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Meet the Team

Our small, but experienced team at Cork Occupational Therapy Services Ltd. have more than 80 years’ experience between us!

Linda Horgan

Linda is working as an occupational therapist since 1988. She is the director and founder of Cork Occupational Therapy Services Ltd. She is a founding and current member of the academic team in Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy programme, University College Cork.
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Linda Horgan, Msc

Yvonne Pennisi

Yvonne trained at Sydney University in Australia. She works on a consultative basis with Cork Occupational Therapy Services Ltd. Her main work is in education of occupational therapists at an undergraduate and post-graduate level.
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Yvonne Pennisi

Aislinn Pearse

Aislinn has over 20 years’ experience as an occupational therapist. Her main area of work is with children, but she has vast experience in community care also.
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Aislinn Pearse

Aileen Finnegan

Aileen joins the COTs team in the role of general administrator and accounts administrator.
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Aileen Finnegan

Madelin Manley

Madelin is the office manager and is, most likely, the voice you will hear when you ring us. With a background in human resources, she brings a strategic focus on how to manage the office (and all of us!). She is excellent at IT management and problem solving.
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Madelin Manley

Sue Knight

Sue, qualified from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is a skilled clinician, comfortable working with clients individually and in groups. She is passionate about each person’s right to high quality, accessible and individualised mental health support and tailored support to those who are neurodiverse who need support.
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Sue Knight

Dympna Dickson

Dympna graduated from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 2004. Beginning her career in Aberdeen in a day service for adults with Intellectual Disability and moved to a senior role in acute setting. Following this a role as a Community Occupational Therapist with Aberdeen City Council.
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Dympna Dickson

Eileen Crowley

Eileen has been working as an Occupational Therapist since 2009, having qualified from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, with a Master’s in Occupational Therapy. She has worked within the UK, New Zealand and Ireland within the areas of paediatric community disability, early intervention, education and private practice.
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Eileen Crowley

Kate Brooks

Kate is a dedicated and experienced occupational therapist who graduated from the University of Galway in 2013. With over a decade of experience across diverse clinical settings, including orthopaedics, cancer care, neurorehabilitation and paediatrics, she developed a particular interest in supporting individuals recovering from Stroke and Acquired Brain Injury.
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Kate Brooks

Ellen O’Reilly

Ellen graduated as an occupational therapist in 2016 and recently achieved her masters in sensory integration. She has experience working in Ireland, Australia and the UK. Ellen has worked across a broad range of services including workplace rehabilitation, school based settings and private clinics. She has an interest in both therapeutic interventions and diagnostics. Ellen is part of the Cork OT services team with UCC, where she works as part of the student mental health team.
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Ellen O’Reilly

Lisa Butler

Lisa completed her Occupational Therapy degree in 2016 and has worked across a variety of contexts including mental health, community arts and sensory integration. Lisa loves all things art related and enjoys bringing creativity into her work. While living in Glasgow, she led a creative mentoring program for Disabled artists called Groove.
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Lisa Butler

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Testimonials

Legal: Yesterday this case settled at mediation and so the trial, which was listed to start on (date) does not need to go ahead. Your report and your incisive analysis of the plaintiff’s functionality, activities of daily living and the actual impact of his stress-induced phantom limb pain on his everyday life were very useful to us in being able to accurately assess the plaintiff’s claims. Thank you very much."
"Thank you so much for all of your help and guidance over the past year. We really appreciate all the time you have given us. It was a pleasure working with you."
A little token of thanks to you for all your support, guidance and help in getting me back to work. I honestly know that it would not have been possible without you. Thank you again.
‘That's smashing, thank you for all of your help with this and getting it done so quickly. It's been a pleasure dealing with you and you can pass on mine and my Mom's compliments to your manager’
‘Thank you so much first of all for your visit to Mum and secondly for your prompt and well written report. I didn’t realise how much work it entailed for you. Mam was delighted with how easy you were to talk to but was relieved it was over as she can get quite anxious about these things.’
Occupational Therapist ‘Gave us invaluable, insightful advice when we were in the very initial stages of setting up our classroom for (secondary school) children on the autism spectrum... The impact was to create rooms that supported the learning and social development of our learners’.
The ‘advice when it came to furnishing our classrooms was practical and smacked of common sense. Her approach is solution-orientated with the learner being place at the core of everything she suggests.
‘thanks to’ the occupational therapists ‘experience, knowledge and skills, our classrooms are place where our learners want to be’. K. Golden, School Principal, Mayfield Community College.
Thank you so much for your help. Thanks to your professional assessment, the government agency for which I work has agreed to provide all of the equipment and supports I need to work painlessly and efficiently. The service you and your colleague Abbie provided was very professional and knowledgeable. As a client, I felt listened to and supported. During the assessment, I was also provided with practice-focused tips to help make my day-to-day office work easier
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Occupational therapy is a health care profession helps people do the everyday things that they want to do and need to do when faced with illness, injury and disability or challenging life events (AOTI, 2016).

Cork OT Services believe that people should be able to access treatment and support through Occupational Therapists to increase their ability to participate in all aspects of their lives: at home, in the community and in employment.

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Linda Horgan

Linda is working as an occupational therapist since 1988. She is the director and founder of Cork Occupational Therapy Services Ltd. She is a founding and current member of the academic team in Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy programme, University College Cork. 

She has vast experience in the fields of education, community health, and occupational health. She has concentrated her clinical work in the area Universal & Accessible Design for people of all abilities, supporting people to remain at home and work and fully engaged in living. She has a special interest in assisting people with medical difficulties to remain driving. 

Linda is a member of the Association of Occupational Therapists in Ireland, and CORU. She has been an active member of committees over the years in relation to the development of practice and the profession in Ireland. She edited the Housing Design Guidelines for Occupational Therapist in Ireland, is a recipient of 2 Presidents (of UCC) awards for Excellence in Teaching. She has also been part of the team that presented their work on design to support people who are neurodivergent at the Venice Biennale and Eli-Lilly Global Service Health Excellence award with the team in Eli-Lilly for the Neurodivergent Support Programme.   

Yvonne Pennisi

Yvonne trained at Sydney University in Australia. She works on a consultative basis with Cork Occupational Therapy Services Ltd. Her main work is in education of occupational therapists at an undergraduate and post-graduate level.

Aislinn Pierse

Aislinn has over 20 years’ experience as an occupational therapist. Her main area of work is with children, but she has vast experience in community care also.  

Aileen Finnegan

Aileen joins the COTs team in the role of general administrator and accounts administrator.  

Madelin Manley​

Madelin is the office manager and is, most likely, the voice you will hear when you ring us. With a background in human resources, she brings a strategic focus on how to manage the office (and all of us!). She is excellent at IT management and problem solving. When not in work she can be found getting stuck in with her family or working it all out in the weights room in the gym. 

Sue Knight​

Sue is a senior occupational therapist with over 15 years’ experience in the field of adult mental health and wellness. Sue qualified from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is a skilled clinician, comfortable working with clients individually and in groups. Sue settled with her family in Cork in 2021.

She is passionate about each person’s right to high quality, accessible and individualised health care. Sue has become an integral part of the Cork OT Services team where she is excited to be supporting clients in a variety of settings including the id+ Project in UCC, private and corporate clients. Over the years, Sue has developed a special interest in supporting adults who identify as neurodivergent. 

Sue works for Cork OT Services with corporate bodies to support their Inclusion and Diversity Programmes and to challenge stigma and stereotypes in the workplace. She is a registered member of CORU and AOTI and is committed to continuous learning, professional development, and mentoring.

Sue is happiest when out in nature, preferably near water. A good book and a cup of tea come a close second. 

Dympna Dickson

Dympna graduated from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 2004.  Beginning her career in Aberdeen in a day service for adults with Intellectual Disability and moved to a senior role in acute setting.  Following this a role as a Community Occupational Therapist with Aberdeen City Council.   Moving to Canada Dympna worked in private practice in Newfoundland. A physical Occupational Therapy setting carrying out Functional Capacity Evaluations, job site analysis and planning return to work rehabilitation programme.   

Following a career gap and Dympna returned to Occupational Therapy practice in Scotland.  Working in neuro-rehab at the Ashley Ainsley hospital, Edinburgh.   

A move home to Galway was inevitable and following this move Dympna continued working for REACH brain injury Rehabilitation, UK.  Dympna has also continued in the area of neuro- rehab in Ireland at AxonRehab. 

Dympna has recently joined the team of the Cumas programme at the University of Galway.   

Dympna is a member of AOTI and CORU.  Passionate about the role of occupational therapy in a variety of settings and the emerging role of occupational therapy in higher education.    

 

Eileen Crowley

Eileen has been working as an Occupational Therapist since 2009, having qualified from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, with a Master’s in Occupational Therapy. She has worked within the UK, New Zealand and Ireland within the areas of paediatric community disability, early intervention, education and private practice. 

Since qualifying, Eileen has completed further training in a wide range of subjects including postural management, occupational performance coaching and group facilitation. She holds a PgDip in Ayres Sensory Integration.  

Eileen is a member of the AOTI and is CORU registered. She is currently based within the Disability Support Service at the University of Limerick. 

Kate Brooks

Kate is a dedicated and experienced occupational therapist who graduated from the University of Galway in 2013. With over a decade of experience across diverse clinical settings, including orthopaedics, cancer care, neurorehabilitation and paediatrics, she developed a particular interest in supporting individuals recovering from Stroke and Acquired Brain Injury. Her role as a neurospecialist in the UK solidified her passion for helping clients achieve their fullest potential. When she returned home to Ireland she worked in the National Rehabilitation Hospital for a time before relocating to the West of Ireland.  

Now based in the Disability Support Service at the University of Galway, Kate works closely with students with disabilities, providing tailored support using neuro-affirmative and compassion-focused approaches. Her work is focused on empowering her students to thrive by recognising and celebrating their unique strengths while fostering understanding and self-compassion. Currently pursuing further studies in Sensory Integration at Sheffield Hallam University, Kate continues to expand her knowledge and skills to support her students better. 

Ellen O’Reilly​

Ellen graduated as an occupational therapist in 2016 and recently achieved her masters in sensory integration. She has experience working in Ireland, Australia and the UK. Ellen has worked across a broad range of services including workplace rehabilitation, school based settings and private clinics. She has an interest in both therapeutic interventions and diagnostics. Ellen is part of the Cork OT services team with UCC, where she works as part of the student mental health team.

Lisa Butler

Lisa completed her Occupational Therapy degree in 2016 and has worked across a variety of contexts including mental health, community arts and sensory integration.  

Lisa loves all things art related and enjoys bringing creativity into her work. While living in Glasgow, she led a creative mentoring program for Disabled artists called Groove. Lisa is interested in nature based therapeutic approaches, and has experience facilitating OT camps amongst the wildlife in Australia.  

Lisa has worked within the student support services of four universities. She enjoys working within a learning environment and working collaboratively with the university community. Lisa is currently based within the Disability Support Service at the University of Galway. Her main area of interest is developing sensory supports for neurodivergent students.