Gordon Lynch started his work in the field of Mental and Emotional health through nursing. He went on to do Mental Health Nursing and then specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Heath Nursing.
He was the first Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Mental Health in Ireland five years before anyone else achieved this.
​Gordon Lynch took his Masters in Psychotherapy at Trinity College Dublin.
He has had many prominent and distinguished roles during three decades working in clinical and management settings. Among these have been: -​

• Member of Board of ACAMH (Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health) in London - The first Irish  representative elected to the board of the world's leading professional and academic body in the field of Young People's Mental Health
  
• Chair Person of the Irish Branch of ACAMH
  
• Founder chair of FINCAMH - (Forum in Ireland for Nurses in Child & Adolescent Mental Health)
• Representative to The Specialist Advisory Group to the HSE on Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) 
• Advisor to the planning group for "Vision for Change" the policy document for Mental Health Services in Ireland 
• Extensive teaching and training experience within the HSE, Universities and other colleges
• Pioneered and published radical clinical delivery systems aimed at reducing waiting lists while delivering best possible service to service users
• Coordinator / Director of Warrenstown House - Ireland's principal therapeutic residential unit for Young People​​
  
• Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Psychotherapy - The first (and for many years the only) Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Mental Health in Ireland