Certified Incredible Years® Peer Coaches
Certified Peer Coaches are certified as parent coaches in The Incredible Years® parent and/or teacher programs. Learn more about certification
Parent Programs – Certified/Accredited Peer Coaches
Parent BASIC Programs
Ingrid Altena, New Zealand
Jens Andersen, New Zealand
Tania Anstiss, New Zealand
Beatriz Aquino-Petkos, England
Ceth Ashen
Dr. Ashen is a Clinical Psychologist and a consultant for a number of community mental health non-profit agencies across the state of California. She conducts program evaluation, clinical training for case managers, parent advocates, clinicians, supervisors and managers, and provides consultation for quality improvement and assurance for these agencies. She provides training and supervision in various evidence based practices. A central goal of her work is to improve mental health program efficacy for high risk populations through the implementation and integration of evidence based practices (EBPs).
Andreia Azevedo, Portugal
Lene Bjerre, Denmark
Michelle Beaumont, England
Lene Bjerre, Denmark
Anne Breese, Wales
Jennifer Browne, New Zealand
Lee Taylor Burt, New Zealand
Paula Byrne, Ireland
Dean Coffey,PsyD., California, USA
Dean Coffey is a licensed clinical psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) with a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California through the Keck School of Medicine of USC. As an Incredible Years Certified Agency Mentor, Dr. Coffey provides training and group supervision (using the IY Peer Coaching Model) for parent group leaders in both the Preschool BASIC and School Age BASIC parenting programs. Many of these parent group leaders are psychology trainees in CHLA’s APA accredited pre-doctoral psychology internship and postdoctoral psychology fellowship programs. He also fulfills a management role at CHLA as the Child & Family Program Area Leader which provides mental health services for children ages six to 12 years and their families. Dr. Coffey continues to lead Incredible Years parent and child groups at CHLA as he has for the past 10 years.Eva Corson, New Zealand
Kirsten Coull, Scotland
Anne Cresswell, England
Marjorie Douglas, New Zealand
Julie Dawson, New Zealand
Gwen Ellis, New Zealand
Ole Falkesgård, Denmark
Ole works as a family therapist at the Centre for ADHD in Aarhus. He does counselling, therapy and parent training and works as coordinator of The Incredible Year Denmark. Ole is a certified group leader and peer coach in the IY parent program and works with parent groups with special focus on ADHD.Kirsty Fawns, Scotland
Maria Filomena Gaspar, Portugal
Clare Fraser, England
Lisa Glynn, New Zealand
Sonja Graves, Denmark
Silvia Gutierrez, PhD, California, USA
Kristian Albaek Harritz, Denmark
Lisa Herewini, New Zealand
Astrid Honore, Denmark
Tatiana Homem, Portugal
Sue Howson, England
Carl Huddart, England
Alison James, England
Michele Jones, New Zealand
Jan Kerr, New Zealand
Jane Keir, New Zealand
Alison Kennedy, England
Mette Kontio, Finland
Diana Linforth-Howden, New Zealand
Blyda Mackey, New Zealand
Mary Magee, Northern Ireland
Britt Mains Berg, Denmark
Linda Marieskind, New Zealand
Megan Marsh, England
Maria McAleese, MSc, LL.M., Northern Ireland
Maria works part-time as a Senior Educational Psychologist on the DECAP programme at QUB, part time for the Education Authority, and part-time as an independent Incredible Years Mentor for the BASIC Parent Program in Northern Ireland. From 2007-2010, she supported the delivery of the BASIC, School Age and Advanced Parent Programs to a total of 274 parents in West Belfast as part of the former SEELB’s Colin IDF Project. From 2011-2013 she worked for an Incredible Years and Reconciliation regional project (‘BNCPPR’, funded by the International Fund for Ireland), supporting the delivery of high quality BASIC Parent Programs to 402 parents and delivered by school staff and project staff in 38 pre-school settings throughout N. Ireland. Maria became an accredited BASIC Parent Group Leader in 2010, an Accredited Peer Coach in 2012, and an Accredited Mentor in 2013, and an accredited Teacher Classroom Management group leader in 2017. Maria delivers Basic Parent Group Leader Training Workshops on a regular basis in Belfast, IY Consultation days, ‘Update your Skills’ refresher training days, and help and support with the accreditation process for BASIC parent group leaders from various organisations in N. Ireland. Maria is currently co-delivering the IY-ASLD parent program for the PHA and NHSCT and received accreditation as a parent group leader in this program in 2019.Anita McCarthy, Ireland
Sean McDonnell, PhD., Ireland
Sean is a Psychologist and the Deputy CEO and Research & Training Manager at Archways. Since 2004 he has researched many solutions for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Prior to that he worked for 4 years as Training and Development manager of the Disability Employment & Training Network of Dublin. Sean has also worked for FÁS and the Link projects as a consultant. Sean currently lectures in the national teachers training college and his primary responsibilities within Archways has to been to coordinate and oversee Archways programme implementation , evaluation and dissemination processes. He is a mentor in training for the Basic parenting program.Janelle McDonald, New Zealand
Peadar McKenna, Northern Ireland
Paula Milanesi, Scotland
Landon Miller, Pennsylvania, USA
Jawahir Mohamed, England
Line Møller, Psy., Denmark
Line works as a clinical psychologist at the Center for ADHD in Aarhus. She does counseling, therapy, parent training and teaches professionals about ADHD related matters in kindergarden and school. She is a certified group leader in the IY parent program and works with parent groups with special focus on ADHD. In addition to that she does peer coaching. Line did her master thesis on parent training as intervention for ADHD in preschool children.Eleanor Morgan, New Zealand
Elizabeth Munro, New Zealand
Gill Murray, New Zealand
Angela Nesbitt, Northern Ireland
Sigrid Ness, Norway
Elaine Nicholls, New Zealand
Dawn Nippert, New Zealand
Ulla Norgaard Nielsen, Denmark
Wayne North, England
Vio Oertly, New Zealand
Barbara Palmer, Denmark
Barbara works as a clinical psychologist and specialist in psychotherapy. She is a certified group leader in the IY parent program and works with parent groups and peer coaching in her agency. Additionally, she works part time for the National Board of Social Services disseminating and implementing the IY programs and providing supervision nationally in Denmark. She also has experience as a clinical family- and couples therapist, as an organizational psychologist and, before graduating in psychology, as a primary and secondary school teacher.Sherrell Prebble, New Zealand
Maartje Raaijmakers, PhD. Netherlands
Maartje works as a clinical child psychologist in a child and adolescent psychiatry service and at the University of Utrecht as a senior researcher. She studied child psychology and received her PhD on a research project into the preventive effectiveness of the Incredible Years Parent Program. At the moment, her research is focused on the treatment effect of the Incredible Years Parent Program for low SES and immigrant parents. She is a certified group leader in the IY parent program (both BASIC and ADVANCE) and works with parent groups and as a peer coach in the Utrecht area. In addition, she is working on the implementation of the Incredible Years Parent Program in the Netherlands. Judah Racham, England
Ditte-Maria Ravn, Denmark
Ty Riva, Norway
Sandra Rothenburg, England
Carolyn Rubenstein, Colorado, USA
Sheila Russell, New Zealand
Maria Joao Santos, Portugal
Maria João is a Psychologist and Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She co-translated into Portuguese and has been delivering the Incredible Years Basic Parent Programme since 2007. Between 2010 and 2013 Maria co-led the research trial "Early prevention/intervention in disruptive behavior disorders: efficacy of parents and teachers programmes”. The most recent project that she is co-coordinating, supported by an EEA Grant, researches both the use of the Basic Programme in primary health care settings and the TCM in school settings. Maria became an accredited Parent Group Leader in 2008, an Accredited Peer Coach in 2012, and an Accredited Mentor in 2016. She has also been trained as a group leader for the Babies, School Readiness, Classroom Dina and TCM programmes.Elisa Samuels, England
Diane Scallon, England
Lindsay Sherman, Colorado, USA
Kimberlee Shoecraft, Washington, USA
Kimberlee Shoecraft, MSW, began her work with Incredible Years in 2006 by providing the Incredible Years® parenting groups for the WA state child welfare population. Since then, she has trained and provided clinical consultation for thousands of group leaders all over the world. Kimberlee’s background includes psychiatric social work, evidence-based program training, implementation, and dissemination in WA state as well as, working in several African and Middle Eastern countries on the training and dissemination of social service programs.Joanne Singleton, England
Lesley Stanley, New Zealand
Lene Straarup, Psy., Denmark
Lene works as a clinical psychologist at the Center for ADHD in Aarhus. She does counseling, therapy, parent training and teaches professionals about ADHD related matters in kindergarten and school. She is a certified group leader and peer-coach in the IY parent program and works with parent groups with special focus on ADHD. In addition to that she does peer coaching.Monica Sture, Norway
Lee Taylor Burt, New Zealand
Linda Terry, New Zealand
Di Thomas, New Zealand
Marianne Bjerregaard Thomsen, Denmark
Marit Traetteberg, Norway
Maisie Tremain, New Zealand
Eileen Turner, New Zealand
Bennie van den Berg, New Zealand
Marte van der Horst, PhD., Netherlands
Marte works as a clinical child psychologist in a child and adolescent psychiatry service (University Medical Center Utrecht). She also works at the University of Utrecht, were she takes part in a project that is focused on the treatment effect of the Incredible Years Parent Program for low SES and immigrant parents. After she received her degree as a teacher, she studied child psychologist. She is a certified group leader in the IY parent program (both BASIC and ADVANCE) and works with parent groups and as a peer coach in the Utrecht area. In addition, she is working on the implementation of the Incredible Years Parent Program in the Netherlands. Kevin Wells, Missouri, USA
Rebecca Westoby, New Zealand
Samantha White, England
Kath Williams, New Zealand
Baby Parent Program
Niamh Dalton, Ireland
Susan McGlone, Ireland
Susan Mulroe, Ireland
Ulla Norgaard Nielsen, Denmark
Child Programs – Certified/Accredited Peer Coaches
Small Group Dinosaur Program
Janne Evertsen, Norway
Bente Hedegaard, Denmark
Karin Poulsen, Denmark
Classroom Dinosaur Program
Oddbjørn Løndal, Norway
Pre-school teacher, Child and Mental Health Service in Tromsø, Norway. He also has education concerning Child Welfare Service and ethnic challenges. He is certified group leader in The Dinosaur child training program and has continually done groups in this program since 2000. He has worked with clinical groups in Dr.Mørch’s Norwegian research trial (2001-2004). Oddbjørn is certified mentor in The Dinosaur child training program. He has had experience for several years working with kids in kindergarten and nearly ten years in a Child Welfare Service Institution for children and adolescents. Oddbjørn has in the last 15 years had much co-operation with Child Welfare Service, Mental Health Service, schools, kindergartens etc. in the most of his occupations. His next challenge will be doing the very first units of Classroom Dinosaur School in Norway.Linda Asphaug, Norway
Irene Solem Hansen, Norway
Tina Naeblerød, Denmark
Britt Stenkvist, Denmark
Teacher Programs – Certified/Accredited Peer Coaches
Teacher Classroom Management Program Certified/Accredited Peer Coaches
Sarah Aiono, New Zealand
Jens Andersen, New Zealand
Adrienne Ansley, New Zealand
Kavita Baluja, New Zealand
Cynthia Borne, New Zealand
Elin Borve, Norway
Jennifer Browne, New Zealand
Lee Taylor Burt, New Zealand
Bernadette Cook, New Zealand
Shirley Craig, New Zealand
Anna Dickson, New Zealand
Emma Dobson, New Zealand
Andrea Duthie, New Zealand
Sue Evans, Wales
Janne Evertsen, Norway
Odd Fyhn
Clinical Psychologist, Chief Psychologist Child and Mental Health Service, Tromsoe, Norway. He also works with Dr.Moerch as clinical
Marianne Gjerstad, Norway
Vicki Green, New Zealand
Lyn Grigor, New Zealand
Stein Grondalen, Norway
Birgitte Henrichsen, Norway
Janene Huggard, New Zealand
Michele Jones, New Zealand
Jan Kerr, New Zealand
Julia Langford, New Zealand
Hilde Mortensen, Norway
Hilde is an occupational therapist, and has been working as a IY-parent-group leader at the child and adolescent psykiatric outpatient clinic in Tromsø, Norway, since 2000. She is certified mentor in the parent program and in the TCM-program and works with Dr. Mørch as a supervisor for parent-groupleaders and TCM-groupleaders in the Norwegian research trial. She has been delivering the advance program and is also a certified PMT-O therapist. She has a background with psychiatric clinic for adults and for many years, in a psychiatric clinic for youths. She has several years' experience working with families, and with teachers in schools and kindergartens. Eadaoin O’Brien, Ireland
Vio Oertly, New Zealand
Ruth Palliser, New Zealand
Sheila Russell, New Zealand
Lee Taylor Burt, New Zealand
Kim Thomson, New Zealand
Susan Treanor, New Zealand
Bennie van den Berg, New Zealand
Pat Williams, New Zealand