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.
Having reviewed a number of parenting courses, the directors concluded that the Parents Plus Programmes were not only the best in terms of content and presentation but also the most appropriate for parents in  Ireland today. 

We were very fortunate to have received excellent assistance, guidance and support from Dr John Sharry.  John is a family psychotherapist and parenting author with over 20 years clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health. Author of several books in counselling and mental health, John is also the co-developer of the award winning Parents Plus Programmes. Johnworked with us for the initial period of our set up.  During this time he adapted the Parents Plus programmes for Help Me To Parent Ltd and delivered all of our courses until he was happy with the content, pace and quality of these.  John then assisted us in finding excellent facilitators for our courses and continues to be a trusted advisor and friend.  We would like to thank John and acknowledge the enormous value and experience that he shared with us.   

Martina Newe 
Martina is a co-founder and director 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.  For more details on Martina's Family Mediation visit www.LeinsterFamilyMediation.ie. Martina used her combination of skills and extensive research to develop our Parenting After Separation or Divorce course.

Niamh Hannan
Niamh is a fully registered Counselling Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland and has been working with clients in a therapeutic setting since 1999. Niamh has extensive experience working with individuals, families and teenagers and has also worked with groups in a variety of organizations, designing and facilitating interactive workshops.

Niamh is a regular contributor to The Parenting Slot on the Moncrieff Show, Newstalk, on Wednesdays at 3pm. She also writes regularly for magazines ‘Easy Health’ and ‘Easy Parenting’ and has contributed to articles in ‘The Irish Times’, ‘The Examiner’ as well as featuring on TV.

She is responsible for the design and delivery of our Personal Development for Teenagers workshop, our Preparing For Parenthood class and she also facilitates our Parenting Teenagers course.  Niamh also runs our Personal Development workshop within post primary schools.

Niamh has a part-time private psychology  practice in Donnybrook.  See www.Mindworks.ie for further information or call Niamh at 087 9975226.

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.