Our Team
Occupational Therapists
Lorcan’s favourite thing about his job is the people. He enjoys the wide variety of colleagues and clients that he gets to interact with every day and the opportunity he has to make a difference in people’s lives. He likes the challenge of working in multiple practice domains and figuring out how to best support each client. His passion is working with kids, because of the humor, honesty and infectious energy that comes in abundance.
Lorcan moved home from Vancouver in the Summer of 2022, having spent nearly 3 years in Canada. Lorcan grew up in Limerick then lived in Galway throughout his undergrad and couldn’t stay away! Although he has moved up the road, his love of Munster and Limerick hasn’t faltered. He lives in Barna with his wife Sadhbh, where they are close to family and friends.
College of Occupational Therapists British Columbia – COTBC
Pediatrics
Ergonomic Evaluation
Lydia is the founder and CEO of Meridian Rehabilitation. Lydia grew up in Vancouver, Canada and graduated from UBC with a BSc in occupational therapy in 1990. Her first job was in stroke rehabilitation at Holy Family Hospital in Vancouver. She then worked at GF Strong rehabilitation hospital in Vancouver for seven years, spending time on the spinal cord injury, brain injury and ALS teams. She began a private practice in 1999. Over the years, her practice has grown into Meridian Rehabilitation Consulting with her personal focus in: functional capacity and cost of future care evaluations, brain injury case management and providing mentorship to the OTs at Meridian Rehab.
Lydia has a wonderful husband, Brent, and seven children (5 boys and 2 girls). When she had fewer children, she enjoyed a variety of sports including rowing, triathlon, volleyball, basketball and hockey. Nowadays (when she has free time), she likes to go for a run, bike, read or spend time with her family.
Qualifications and Memberships
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from the University of British Columbia
Member of the British Columbia College of Occupational Therapists
Matheson Functional Capacity Evaluator
Matheson Advanced Functional Capacity Evaluator
Matheson FCE Evaluation of Brain Injury
Matheson Life Care Planning Certification
Qualified as an expert witness in the Supreme Court of British Columbia
AMPS (Assessment of Motor and Process Skills)
Wheelchair Positioning and Seating
Areas of Practice
Case Management
Community Rehabilitation
Chronic Pain Rehab
Dysphagia
Functional Capacity Evaluation
Cost of Future Care Assessments
Medical-Legal Services
Seating Assessments and Prescription
Spinal Cord Rehabilitation
Stroke Rehabilitation
Brain Injury Rehabilitation
- Play based development
- Emotional regulation
- Sensory processing
- Executive Functioning
- Motor planning
- Functional skill building for daily routines (e.g., dressing, toileting, mealtimes)
- Supporting participation in hobbies and leisure (e.g., cycling, sports, creative play)
- Environmental modifications, adaptive equipment, assistive technology
- Physical development (fine and gross motor skills)
- Handwriting and school readiness
- Wheelchair skills
- Neuroaffirmative support for neurodivergent adults
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Chronic pain management
- Executive Functioning
- Job skills training
- Housing adaptation assessments
- Community access and participation in meaningful activities
Speech-Language Therapists
Surnaí is a Galway native, who spent many years working and travelling abroad. Since completing her Masters in 2020, Surnaí has been working in Primary Care Paediatric SLT services. Joining the Meridian Team is her first venture into SLT private practice and she is very excited about undertaking this new journey to support the clients she works with.
Surnaí has been working in Paediatrics since graduating but is looking forward to undertaking training to renew her skills and Surnaí enjoys getting to know clients and their families well, discussing what is most important to them and figuring out how she, as the SLT, can help them to achieve or maintain this. She is passionate about providing motivating, functional and client-centred speech and language therapy.
In her spare time, Surnaí loves to travel, cook, sing, dance and spend time with friends and family.
Areas of Practice
- Late Talkers
- Play development
- Receptive and Expressive Language Delay
- Early Language Development
- Developmental Language Disorder
- Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
- Speech Sounds (phonology and articulation)
- Difficulties with attention, listening or memory
- Fluency/Stammering
- Voice Disorders
- Cleft Lip and Palate Speech Therapy
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Collaborative working with parents, teachers and relevant staff
Qualifications
MSc Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Essex, England.
BA Connect in French, Irish and a specialisation in Children’s Studies from National University of Ireland, Galway.
CORU – Health & Social Care Professionals Ireland
IASLT – Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists
ISTI – Independent Speech and Language Therapists of Ireland