🎓Experience and Qualifications
Claire has worked across homelessness and addiction services for over a decade, with experience ranging from frontline support and recovery coaching to programme development and leadership.  Before joining Bridge Housing as Recovery Housing Manager, Claire was the Coordinator of the Recovery Academy Ireland.
Claire holds a Masters in Addiction Recovery from Trinity College Dublin and has also studied Addiction Studies at Maynooth University.  She brings together professional experience, academic learning and her own lived experience of addiction and recovery.

 ❤️What matters
Claire is passionate about creating environments where people feel safe, respected and genuinely supported.  She believes recovery housing is more than having a roof over your head.  For Claire, its about helping people build confidence, connection and recovery capital, whilst giving them the space and support to decide what a meaningful life in recovery looks like for them.

 🏡Outside of Work
Claire is an aerial yoga enthusiast and her favourite time of the week is hanging upside down!  She travels often and has recently starting training in sound therapy.  Having experienced her own recovery journey, she values connection, laughter and continuing to learn and grow, both personally and professionally.

✨Her Favourite Quote
“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is say how you feel”
A reminder that vulnerability isn’t a weakness.  Sometimes being honest about how we feel takes more courage than pretending everything is ok.