MEET THE TEAM

Help Me To Parent Ltd was launched in October 2007. The two founding directors had attended a parenting course and were so impressed with the skills they learned, they passionately believed that every parent should have the opportunity to do a course such as this. Since establishing the company, the directors have reviewed and researched parenting courses and literature. During this time they discussed various aspects of parenting and parenting training with a number of professionals in the area of mental health and child/youth development.

In late 2016 Mary and Allen of CA Coaching came on board, bringing with them a range of exciting new programmes to add to the Help Me To Parent portfolio. All of the programmes/courses offered by Help Me To Parent are tried and tested and have received the seal of approval from the hundreds of families we have worked with over the years.  

Directors

Mary O’Donoghue
Mary has over thirty years experience in coaching, training, supervision and counselling and psychotherapy and is a master practitioner and trainer in Logosynthesis.  She is a Master Coach practitioner with Life and Business Coaching Association of Ireland and has nearly forty years career experience in business, finance and training.

Mary has been designing and delivering programmes to professionals across the globe for nearly 20 year and has built up an extensive private counselling and therapeutic practise. Mary is also accredited by NAPCP, Supervisors Association of Ireland and European Association of Supervisors and Coaches and Logosynthesis International Association.

Allen O’Donoghue
Allen is an LBCAI accredited professional coach, trainer and facilitator with almost 20 years of experience in youth and family development. With qualifications in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, Social Science and Logosynthesis, Allen’s specialist knowledge and understanding of family dynamics has supported hundreds of young people and adults in setting and achieving their personal goals.

This experience has brought Allen to become a highly regarded speaker on family coaching, appearing regularly on radio and presenting at international events.

Allen also runs the highly successful Business & Life Coaching company CA Coaching www.cacoaching.ie

Consulting Team

Martina Newe 
Martina is a co-founder of  Help Me To Parent Ltd . She has worked for over 25 years in Information Technology and has been running her own IT consultancy business for the last 14 years. Martina is a mother of 3 and a trained facilitator for the Parents Plus Programmes. She is passionate about providing parents with support for every step of the parenting journey and frequently contributes articles for Irish Parent, Easy Parenting, Schooldays.ie, Rollercoaster.ie and more. She has featured in many articles in The Irish Times, The Irish Independant and The Evening Herald. Martina has also appeared on The Morning Show on TV3, Ireland AM on TV3 and frequently takes part in Cork Radio's RedFM.

She is an Accredited Family Mediator and a Certified Member of The Mediators Institute of Ireland. The combination of her Parenting and Mediation skills add greatly to her ability to mediate with families with children. Martina used her combination of skills and extensive research to develop our Parenting After Separation or Divorce course.

Hazel Cazzini

Hazel is a registered Midwife – qualified since 1996.  She has worked in all areas of maternity care, and  has cared for many women during their pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. Hazel currently works in the Antenatal area in of a Leading Maternity Hospital in Dublin. 

Hazel has been involved in Antenatal education for several years and set up   the “complete one-day antenatal class” in January 2004. In 2009  she qualified as a pregnancy yoga instructor and  believes that this training  benefits  pregnant women attending her courses. Hazel is also the proud mother of two young children!  

Hazel  believes in continued personal and professional development and attends workshops on the subject of antenatal education on a regular basis. These courses have been run by experts in Antenatal Education  such as Andrea Roberton and Judith Schott.