Dr Moya O'Brien

Founding Director & CEO

Dr Moya O’Brien (CPsychol, PhD) is a clinical psychologist and the co-founder of ICEP Europe where she serves as the Chief Executive Officer. She is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst. She is an active member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), British Psychological Society (BPS), International Association for Behaviour Analysis and the International Positive Psychology Network. Before joining ICEP Europe, Moya was a senior clinical psychologist in the CAMHs service and also had a private practise.

As co-founder of ICEP Europe Moya is involved in many aspects of education and training provision, consultancy, and research projects undertaken by ICEP Europe. She is involved in ongoing research in the area of resilience, assistive technology and online learning. Moya lectures on special needs and psychology for ICEP Europe and teaches on post graduate collaborative programmes with Hibernia College and the University of East London.

She has extensive research experience having worked on large scale, international, multidisciplinary projects including studies on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), child victimisation, the application of technology to reduce anxiety in college students and supervised doctoral students’ investigation of topics across the area of disability and SEN. As an active researcher she has published articles and disseminated her research at European and Australian conferences. Moya is particularly interested in UDL and the use of technology to support marginalised young people. 

Contact Information
Email: m.obrien@icepe.eu
Tel: +353 868211876
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moya-O-Brien