Psychotherapy and Clinic

Therese is a practising Psychotherapist and is a graduate of Psychology from Queens University, Belfast. She holds a post graduate diploma in Psychoanalysis from Dublin Business School, a Masters Degree (First Class Honours) in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and is an accredited member of Irish Council for Psychotherapy, ICP. Therese is also a Registered Practitioner member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Ireland.

Therese is passionate about mental health and established The Psychotherapy Clinic in 2012 to work with family care givers, older adults and couples. Therese has a broad range of experience working with adults with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, unhappiness, hopelessness, grief, loneliness and the challenges of care giving. Her research interests include the psychotherapy of older adults, the psychotherapy of care giving and the psychotherapy of mid-life.

Consultancy

Therese evaluates and independently reviews Social Care Programmes on behalf of NGOs in Ireland. She regularly provides training, education and consultancy services to NGOs including The Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Family Carers Ireland, Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, The Care Alliance Network and Wicklow Dementia Support. Her services include design, development and delivery of bespoke education and training packages regarding the psychological and emotional impact of long term care giving as well as self-care and well-being strategies. Therese provides training to NGO staff members working directly with people with a neurodegenerative or life limiting illness in the areas of support group facilitation, boundary setting and self-care.

Therese is a Director of the Freud Lacan Institute; a training institute which provides post masters and CPD training courses for psychotherapists pre and post accreditation. She is a thesis supervisor for Master’s Degree students at the Turning Point Institute, a former Vice Chairperson of The Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland and Chair of its Education Committee.