Testimonials
Here is what my clients have to say about me:
Mary O’Kane delivered a fantastically engaging and practical talk for parents on the subject of childhood anxiety. It covered the physical and psychological manifestation of anxiety in children and how best to help them understand what is happening and how to manage it. As a rurally based Family Resource Centre we were delighted to engage a speaker of this knowledge and experience who has a real understanding of the issues facing parents currently
– Julie O’Halloran, Millennium Family Resource Centre
We had Dr Mary O’Kane for a talk on anxiety at The Venue Theatre in Ratoath. Personally I took a great deal away from this talk and the feedback from the local community was that Mary was extremely knowledgeable on the subject of anxiety. She was compassionate and her personal experience with dealing with anxiety made the talk resonate greatly with her audience. There is huge demand for Mary to come back again.
– Eilish Balfe, Happy Days Playschool, Ratoath
Dr Mary O Kane engaged with us on three workshops during months of August & September 2020. Dr Mary was excellent offering great support to participants listening & working with parents around supporting their young people around beginning & returning to school & anxieties they felt. She offered parents great support around soothing young people around this school return, instilling confidence in them; confidence in their school & their teachers & offering helpful book suggestions.
– Laura McHugh, Mohill Family Support Centre
This evening’s Webinar was brilliant and I love listening to Dr Mary when I get a chance on Ireland AM, she has great advice and tips that I will be sure to put in practice at home.
– Attendee at Sligo-Leitrim Parenting Champions Webinar
Scoil Aonghusa was privileged to have Mary come to our school to present two talks to our parents, one on Childhood Anxiety and a second on Building Self esteem and resilience. Her down to earth, practical and very well informed talks were highly beneficial to our parents. Grounded in solid research and probably most importantly, personal real life experiences, her talks were highly engaging and so well received by our parents. I’d highly recommend Mary to come to your school or community. A most positive and reassuring speaker.
– John Benson, HSLC, Scoil Aonghusa, Tallaght
I was delighted to welcome Dr. Mary O’Kane into my setting last year to deliver a session to parents. The session was very informative and gave parents a number of practical tools to help them and their children manage transitions more easily. In typical Mary style, the session was delivered with great warmth and humour, I could have listened to her all evening.
– Lisa Kennedy, Monastery Preschool
I attended a talk delivered by Dr. Mary O’Kane at Monastery Preschool. Mary delivered a fabulous talk that really helped us to understand the difficulty and anxiety that can come with transitions to “big school” for our children. Mary not only entertained us with her down-to-earth style and approach but she also gave us great tips for to navigate the transitions with our children more easily.
– Jenny Johnston, Parent, Monastery Preschool
Mary came to my school last year to give a talk to our teachers about childhood anxiety. The advice she gave us was practical, straight-forward and easy to implement. Her approaches are very child friendly and can be altered depending on the level of the child. Through her presentation we all gained a great insight into childhood anxiety and felt more capable of helping the children in our care. Mary also has a lovely warm and friendly demeanour which makes it very easy to listen to her advice and tips. I would highly recommend her.
– Emily Brennan, St Kilian’s School, Mullagh, Co Cavan
It was really informative I really enjoyed the practical examples and pointers. I’m a Mam to a 7 year old, 4 year old and 2 year old so I drank in everything I heard thank you for that invaluable information Mary!
– Sligo-Leitrim Parenting Champions Webinar
I have just completed a webinar on supporting children with anxiety! Mary has a lovely way of explaining what happens with anxiety and some great tips on how we can deal with it both as educators and parents. I feel armed with many tools for dealing with this now. Thank you Mary!
– Canavan Byrne Training Webinar Attendee
I attended a talk on self-esteem, confidence and resilience in children by Dr Mary O’Kane at my son’s primary school last year and really enjoyed it. She presented the subject really well, with lots of concrete examples, and had a lot of clear, useful and practical advice, without it feeling overwhelming. I also liked that she was compassionate and empathic, and also had a sense of humour when talking about her subject.
– Parent at St Nicholas Montessori School
That was brilliant. I really enjoyed it, so funny, but very helpful, I learned so much, I would have listened for another hour the time flew.
– Sligo-Leitrim Parenting Champions Webinar
Just had my first webinar with Dr Mary this evening it was fabulous. Very informative interesting and well layout. Thanks again.
– Canavan Byrne Training Webinar Attendee
I attended a talk by Dr. Mary O’Kane held by a local preschool about anxiety in children. Dr. O’Kane’s talk was so informative and engaging that I decided to ask her to come to my preschool to talk to both the parents of the service and the Early Years Educators working there. The feedback from both the parents and the EYE’s was really positive and everyone that attended thoroughly enjoyed it and gained a lot of really helpful information on the topic. I look forward to having Dr. O’Kane in again to share more of her knowledge with us.
– Tracey Kellenden, Lullabys Preschool
Really helped me understand my child’s worries and help her to deal with them. Mary was a breath of fresh air.
– Leitrim CCC talk on Supporting Anxious Children
Mary was a fantastic and informative speaker. she was fabulous. Easy to listen to and follow. Very practical. Could have listened for longer.
– Leitrim CCC talk on Supporting Anxious Children
Mary was brilliant, I could listen to her all night!