Tara Connolly and Aoife Deacon

IASW Independent Social Workers

Name: Tara Connolly and Aoife Deacon

Email: Tara Connolly: taramaryconnolly@gmail.com / Aoife Deacon: aoifedee@hotmail.com

Joint email: connollydeaconsw@gmail.com

Telephone: Tara Connolly: 0851070880 / Aoife Deacon: 0877860547

Type of Work/Specialism: Assessments and Case Management Support

CORU Registration Number: Tara Connolly: SW000024 / Aoife Deacon: SW007151

Region/Location: Dublin, Wicklow and Meath / Available to travel

Languages spoken: English

Description of relevant experience/profile:

• Tara Connolly and Aoife Deacon are experienced social work clinicians who specialise in providing assessment and consultation services in complex case management and areas of child protection.
• Our specific areas of interest and expertise are in child sexual abuse and sexualised behaviours with children and young people from a forensic and investigative interviewing framework.
• We also have international experience in providing support and advice in relation people seeking asylum, trauma, parenting capacity assessments and foster care assessments.

Qualifications: Tara Connolly: MA in Social Work & MA in Systemic Psychotherapy / Aoife Deacon: BA in Social Work

Professional registrations: CORU

Extra skills: Both systemic psychotherapists in training, MA course