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.