Her background originally is in psychiatric nursing and she is currently the Regional Service Manager for the HSE Dublin mid Leinster Eating Disorder Service, where she supervises psychologists and psychotherapists as well as seeing clients individually. Teresa has worked on all three of the specialist inpatient eating disorder programmes that are currently available in Ireland. She has lectured for Glyndwr University Wales on the connections between eating disorders and dissociation and trauma. She is a professional member of the International Society for Trauma and Dissociation. Her interest in trauma and dissociation stems directly from her work over the last 18 years with eating disorder clients where she has noted a correlation in her practice.