Meet the team

Martin is the co-founder of Rewild Therapy. He is registered as a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland (M10543C), having completed the Clinical Psychologist Validation process with the Irish Department of Health, prior to relocating with his family to Ireland in 2019.

Martin qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2002 from Rhodes University, South Africa. He was the Psychosocial Services Manager at Grahamstown Hospice until 2006. Martin co-founded the Psychological Care Centre in 2007. He was a guest lecturer, and a Clinical Supervisor to Training and Intern Psychologists, at Rhodes University and Fort England Psychiatric Hospital for a decade. Martin was involved with the hospice movement regionally and nationally for many years, and was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Palliative Care for the World Health Organisation.

Martin was the Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Sunflower Clinic in Cork from 2020 to 2024, building up extensive multidisciplinary autism assessment experience, and running an adolescent intervention service. He joined a Children’s Disability Network Team in 2024. Martin brings over twenty years of clinical experience with children, teenagers, adults and families. As a neurodivergent person and parent, he is a passionate advocate of neuroaffirmative practice, and disability and LGBTQIA+ rights. Martin has a deep interest in supporting autistic young people on their journey to becoming their authentic selves, and knows that with the right supports and accommodations, autistic people can thrive. He strives to foster autistic flow, increase self-compassion and joy, and to empower the parents of autistic young people, who are often neurodivergent themselves, with understanding, skills, hope, and support.