I work with clients in Dublin and across Ireland online, by secure video.
Ireland has very good addiction counsellors. There are people doing good work with eating disorders, and there are people trained in EMDR. What is harder to find is a single clinician who can hold all of it at once, and that is the reason most people from Ireland get in touch with me.
One profile, not three problems
Addiction, eating disorders and trauma are usually one psychological profile presenting in three directions rather than three separate conditions that happen to coincide.
Someone comes about their drinking. Underneath it is a relationship with food that nobody has asked about. Underneath that is something that happened long before either of them started. And around all of it sits the anxiety, or the depression, that everyone has been treating as the problem itself.
You can find clinicians in Ireland who work with each of those things. If you arrive with the whole of it, you will struggle to find one person who can follow you through it.
That is what I do: the complex case, complex PTSD, where addiction and often an eating disorder sit in the same person. Eating disorders are where most of my clinical life has been spent.
Anonymity, in a small country
Ireland is a small island and everybody knows everybody. If you see a therapist in Dublin, there is a reasonable chance they know somebody you know. That is nobody’s fault. It is arithmetic.
For some people that is exactly why they look outside Ireland. I have written about that at more length, including what taught me the lesson, on the EMDR page.
What I offer
EMDR therapy for trauma, delivered online. More than twenty years of practice and well over a hundred sessions online.
Addiction counselling, including alcohol, cocaine and behavioural addiction, worked with alongside whatever else is present rather than in isolation.
Eating disorder treatment, including in men, which was the subject of my doctoral research at the University of Essex.
Practicalities
Sessions are online by secure video. I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst and an HCPC registered art psychotherapist, with twenty-five years of clinical practice. Registration can be verified on the UKCP register.
If what you need is somebody in the room, or residential treatment, I will tell you that at the assessment rather than six sessions in.
If you are in crisis in Ireland, Pieta is free and open twenty four hours on 1800 247 247, or text HELP to 51444. Samaritans is free on 116 123, day or night. In an emergency call 112 or 999.
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