Qualification I hold a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy from ICHAS (Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences) in conjunction with Griffith College - Dublin.
My professional training covered the major areas required for therapy practice, including counselling and psychotherapy theory, human development, therapeutic skills and the therapeutic relationship, mental health and psychological difficulties.
My training also involved exploring different approaches to psychotherapy and understanding how experiences throughout life – including childhood, family relationships, loss, trauma and significant life events – can continue to influence how we think, feel, relate and cope as adults.
My learning continues beyond my formal qualification through ongoing professional development, reading and training, with particular interests in neurodiversity and ADHD, trauma, relationships and insomnia.
Experience2+ years in Psychotherapy
I completed two years of direct client sessions with MyMove Counselling in Limerick, where I gained more than 400 hours of direct experience working with a wide range of clients.
I worked with both men and women, from their early twenties to post retirement. Across short, medium and longer-term therapy.
People came to therapy with many different experiences and difficulties, including addiction, anxiety, stress, feeling stuck, difficult life choices, relationship and marital breakdown, the impact of unsettled or difficult childhood experiences, workplace bullying, bereavement and trauma.
Some clients came with one particular issue they wanted to address. For others, life had become much more complicated, with several difficulties overlapping and affecting each other. In these situations, part of our work was to slowly unravel what was happening, separate the different issues and begin to make what initially felt overwhelming more manageable.
This experience helped me to understand that therapy does not need to begin with a perfectly defined problem. Sometimes the starting point is simply knowing that something isn't right and having a place to begin talking about it.
Approach My practise approach within MTD Psychotherapy is practical and collaborative. I don’t believe that one way of working suits everyone, so how we work together will depend on you, what you are experiencing and what you want from therapy.
I often start with practical CBT and REBT techniques, particularly when someone is struggling with what is happening in their life right now. But I also believe that lasting change often comes from understanding where our reactions and patterns began.
Sometimes that means looking back at earlier life experiences and making sense of how you learned to cope, at that time. Your reactions may have made perfect sense then, but often the difficulty is that we can carry them into adult life, relationships and situations where they no longer work for us.
Together, we can begin to recognise those patterns, understand rather than judge them, and find different ways of responding that fit the person and the life you have today.
I see therapy as something we do together. I won’t tell you how to live your life, but I will ask questions, sometimes challenge you, offer another perspective and help you make sense of what may initially feel complicated or overwhelming.
Above all, I aim to provide a calm, respectful space where you can speak openly and where therapy feels human, useful and relevant to your life.
