Sarah is a passionate advocate for children with autism and the founder and Managing Director of Juniper Tree Autism Services in Athlone, Co. Westmeath. She holds a degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Psychology at University College Dublin (UCD).

Before founding Juniper Tree, Sarah worked as a Senior ABA Tutor, where she designed and delivered individualised education programmes for children with autism. She conducted detailed assessments across communication, social, academic, functional living and play skills — becoming expert in evidence-based teaching strategies including discrete trial training, pivotal response training, PECS, and differential reinforcement.

She later worked as a Parent Support Coordinator, training parents directly in Applied Behaviour Analysis so they could implement strategies at home. Sarah didn’t just study autism support, she lived it from every angle — as a practitioner, a trainer, and as a parent herself.

Sarah took everything she learned on the frontline — the gaps, the frustrations, the things that actually work — and built the service she wished had existed. Juniper Tree now supports hundreds of families across the midlands and beyond.