Ciaran Butler

My first interaction with Emma from a sporting perspective was to sit down and plan my return to contact sport following a knee injury. From that first meeting I knew that I would be challenged, encouraged, and held accountable. Emma made it clear to me from the outset that sport wasn’t just what you do on the field for 60 minutes on gameday, but a combination of innumerable tiny victories and achievements that all fed into one goal. Her knowledge, guidance, and support made it simple to identify these tasks and to lay them out in front me in a way that broke down a seemingly insurmountable goal into easily processable chunks. With Emma’s help I can say with absolute certainty that my return to sport would not have been as straightforward, and indeed may not have happened at all.