About Emer Flannery Emer has worked in psychology for the last 9 years, in various care sectors both in Ireland and abroad.Emer is extremely passionate about Positive Psychology and likes to focus on what is right with people rather than what is wrong. She made her first Weighted Blanket for a child with autism who she worked with in 2011 after a year studying in Liverpool, UK. It was some time after this however before Emer realised that she too would benefit from a self-soothing tool like Kocoono™.
After studying for a year in the UK, working as a behaviour therapist for children with autism in Saudi Arabia, working with persons experiencing anxiety, depression, chronic insomnia and other mental health issues in Australia, Emer decided to return to Ireland to work in the homeless services and then began to experience her own bout of sleepless nights which led her to create her very own Kocoono weighted blanket.
Emer immediately felt the positive effects and began spreading the word to her friends and family and soon she was inundated with requests to make more Kocoono™ weighted blankets.