About me

I am an accredited psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, trainer, and mindfulness teacher with over 30 years’ experience working with individuals and groups both in private practice and a wide range of community based settings. I am a long time student of meditation and I have been integrating the practices of mindfulness into my counselling and psychotherapy practice since the 1990s.

As an Integrative practitioner, I weave together my life experience, trainings, knowledge and skills in counselling, psychology, mindfulness-based approaches, bereavement studies, and trauma therapy, to offer the best combination of support and care to each client. I have specialist training in compassionately supporting people with long term health issues, chronic stress, grief, loss, trauma, anxiety and depression

Background and Qualifications

My initial training as both a general and mental health nurse laid the foundation for a path that has been orientated towards providing support and compassionate space to work with physical and emotional challenges. In the 1980s I began training with one of the first Psychotherapy training centres in Ireland, The Creative Counselling Centre. I have been in continuous private practice since. I am committed to my professional development and have pursued additional qualifications and expertise. I am a qualified Mindfulness teacher having completed training as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher with the Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, USA. I also completed a specialist teacher training in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer with Bangor University. I hold an MSc in Bereavement Studies from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Irish Hospice Foundation. I am also an experienced EMDR practitioner. I have completed training in Complicated Grief Therapy with Kathy Shear of Columbia University and the Irish Hospice Foundation and integrate all of these skills where appropriate in my psychotherapy practice.

Background and Qualifications