Originally a primary school teacher, Joanne re-trained as a fitness instructor at the University of Limerick in 1999, and then qualified with the Pilates Institute. She began teaching remedial Pilates at a Physiotherapy Practice in Dublin then joined Grosvenor Physiotherapy in 2002, after moving to the UK. Joanne is responsible for running the Pilates programme at Grosvenor Physiotherapy and is also an OCR(Oxford and Cambridge Royal Society of Arts) assessor for the Pilates Institute.