About Deirdre
I am a psychotherapist accredited with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and also the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
I qualified from Dublin Business School in 2008 with a Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and got my accreditation with the I.A.C.P. in 2011. Since then I have worked in different counselling centres and private practices. At present I am working both in private practice and also with Nurture. Nurture is a charity organisation that works with males and females regarding all mental health issues relating to pregnancy, miscarriages, IVF, infertility and also post natal depression and psychosis. I have done specific training in this area. Maternal mental health would be my specialised area and area of interest also.
I have worked with adult clients of all ages with different problems and traumas. I have worked with clients from workplace referral basis on a short-term basis ie 6 sessions but have also worked with numerous clients on a longer term basis and on issues as described here. I attend supervision of my work with a qualified and accredited I.A.H.I.P. supervisor. I also do group supervision with other therapists in a confidential and professional manner.
As a therapist I must continuously develop my skills and capacity to sit with clients in their anguish and pain. I attend courses and workshops to keep me fresh and alive in my work. I obtained an advanced diploma course in Gestalt therapy and attended workshops about mindfulness, dreams and trauma work. I have become very interested in the body's role in holding onto painful memories and how the body can inform us of what is really going on for ourselves. I like to help my clients focus mindfully on their feelings and body's response in the present moment to gain more innate wisdom.
I believe also that I need to be able to understand, process and integrate my own emotions and life experiences and therefore I attend a therapist to help me achieve this. I do believe that I need to be able to help myself before I can help others.
I qualified from Dublin Business School in 2008 with a Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and got my accreditation with the I.A.C.P. in 2011. Since then I have worked in different counselling centres and private practices. At present I am working both in private practice and also with Nurture. Nurture is a charity organisation that works with males and females regarding all mental health issues relating to pregnancy, miscarriages, IVF, infertility and also post natal depression and psychosis. I have done specific training in this area. Maternal mental health would be my specialised area and area of interest also.
I have worked with adult clients of all ages with different problems and traumas. I have worked with clients from workplace referral basis on a short-term basis ie 6 sessions but have also worked with numerous clients on a longer term basis and on issues as described here. I attend supervision of my work with a qualified and accredited I.A.H.I.P. supervisor. I also do group supervision with other therapists in a confidential and professional manner.
As a therapist I must continuously develop my skills and capacity to sit with clients in their anguish and pain. I attend courses and workshops to keep me fresh and alive in my work. I obtained an advanced diploma course in Gestalt therapy and attended workshops about mindfulness, dreams and trauma work. I have become very interested in the body's role in holding onto painful memories and how the body can inform us of what is really going on for ourselves. I like to help my clients focus mindfully on their feelings and body's response in the present moment to gain more innate wisdom.
I believe also that I need to be able to understand, process and integrate my own emotions and life experiences and therefore I attend a therapist to help me achieve this. I do believe that I need to be able to help myself before I can help others.
" Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde.
