THE POWER OF TOUCH

Healing Early Developmental Trauma using NeuroAffective Touch®.

1-Day Workshop in Dublin.

Date: Saturday, April 18th 2026 | Time: 10am – 5pm
Venue: Edmund Hall, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin
Early Bird Price: €125 – ends Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Standard Price: €150 (includes lunch)

7 CPD POINTS/HOURS AWARDED

Join Dr. Aline LaPierre (attending virtually from LA) and UK faculty Sue Bell OBE DL, CEO & Clinical Director, Kids Inspire, (in person) to explore NeuroAffective Touch®, a pioneering somatic approach to understanding and supporting the healing of early developmental trauma.

Also featuring an exclusive interview between Dr. LaPierre & Dr. Brid Keenan (Director, Ireland Somatic Experiencing®).

This specialised workshop is designed for bodyworkers, psychotherapists, educators, and trauma recovery professionals who want hands-on, practical insights into trauma-informed touch.

It's also open to anyone wanting to know more about early developmental trauma & NeuroAffective Touch® as a possible healing modality option for themselves, their family or loved ones. 

Places are limited - Don’t miss your chance to register.

Full workshop details CLICK HERE.

For further information please contact:

Roisin Ni Maoilearca MSc SLT, SEP

087 9160919 / roisinmaoil@hotmail.com / www.somatictherapy.ie

Beyond Exhausted: Understanding and Treating Parental Burnout

With Rebecca Reddin, Perinatal Psychologist, PMH-C

Monday March 23rd - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Irish Time - Takes Place Via Zoom and hosted by The Perinatal Mental Health Institute Includes Certificate of Attendance, Access to Recorded Version and All Resources Mentioned in the Training - €20

How many of your clients are quietly running on empty — not just tired, but completely hollowed out by parenthood? Parental burnout is far more prevalent than most clinicians realise, yet it remains one of the most commonly missed conditions in perinatal mental health — frequently misidentified, minimised, or simply unnamed.

This 90-minute training will help you to recognise, assess, and treat parental burnout in your practice and better support the parents you serve. You'll gain the knowledge, tools, and confidence to identify this distinct condition, distinguish it from depression and other mental health presentations, and offer interventions that genuinely restore parental wellbeing and family connection.

Whether you work with individuals, couples, or families, this training equips you to recognise parental burnout when it walks through your door, understand how it presents differently across genders, and support parents on the path to recovery.

What You'll Learn:

• Definitions and the three core dimensions of parental burnout
• Root causes including sociocultural pressures and resource imbalance
• Gender-specific presentations and risk factors for mums and dads
• Validated assessment tools and screening strategies
• Evidence-based interventions and therapeutic approaches
• Systemic and preventive strategies to support long-term recovery
• How to distinguish parental burnout from depression and other conditions

Rebecca Reddin, Perinatal Psychologist, PMH-C

Rebecca Reddin is the Founder of the Perinatal Mental Health Institute and a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland. Rebecca has been working with women and families through the tender transition to parenthood since 2009, in both private practice and community-based settings.

As a Perinatal Psychologist and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist (PMH-C), Rebecca brings in-depth expertise spanning fertility to parenting, hormonal changes to identity shifts, and loss to trauma. With an MA and MSc in Psychology with a focus on Marriage and Family Therapy, she brings a wealth of clinical knowledge and lived professional experience to this training.

To learn more and register for this event: https://learn.perinatalmentalhealthinstitute.com/2603reddinregistration

For more information about The Perinatal Mental Health Institute: https://perinatalmentalhealthinstitute.com

Have questions? Contact@perinatalmentalhealthinstitute.com

Life Transitions: Engendering Vitality While Aging With Alessandra Merizzi

What if ageing is not a story of decline—but a field of vitality, resistance, and creative adjustment?

Instead, we will ask:
How do cultural images of ageing become embodied?
How do they shape our therapeutic presence?
What happens in the co-created field when ageing and vitality meet?

This is not a lecture-based event. Expect embodied exploration, movement, relational exercises, and deep dialogue in pairs and small groups. There will be space to reflect on your own experience of ageing—and your clinical work with clients navigating transition.

In this experiential CPD workshop, Alessandra Merizzi invites us to examine the existential dimensions of ageing and how we relationally navigate life transitions—both personally and in the therapy room.

Drawing on psychogerontology, clinical neuroscience, and Gestalt therapy, Alessandra brings a provocative lens to the embodied stereotypes that shape how we grow older. Influenced by the research of Becca Levy and re-examined through Gestalt practice, this workshop challenges the dominant Western narrative that equates youth with vitality and ageing with limitation.

CPD Hours awarded

Part of our Living and Working on the Margins Programme

Alessandra Merizzi is a Clinical Psychologist, Gestalt Psychotherapist, psychogerontology specialist, and neuroscience researcher affiliated with the National Institute of Health and Science on Aging (INRCA-IRCCS). An international trainer and published author, she brings clinical depth, research rigour, and embodied presence to her teaching.

If you work with adults in transition—this conversation is already in your therapy room.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/life-transitions-engendering-vitality-while-aging-tickets-1975123842582?aff=oddtdtcreator

Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppressive Practice — A Gestalt Perspective

Friday 10 April 2026
2pm–6pm GMT
Online Workshop
4 CPD Hours
Early-bird €65 | Regular €80

Why this matters now
When racism and exclusion are normalised in public life, therapy rooms are not insulated from their impact. Across Europe, the UK, and beyond, public discourse is hardening. Racist narratives are re-entering mainstream politics
This online workshop invites practitioners to meet this political moment with depth, embodiment, and relational courage, through a Gestalt lens encompassing clinical contact, relational dynamics, and embodied experience.

What you’ll explore

• How oppression and marginalisation live in the clinical field
• Experiential, embodied approaches that move beyond intellectual agreement into lived awareness.
• Develop Gestalt-informed anti-oppressive awareness grounded in dialogue, field sensitivity, and accountability.
• How power, privilege, and positionality shape therapeutic relationships — and how to work with this ethically.

Who this is for
Therapists, counsellors, social workers, supervisors, and practitioners in helping roles who recognise that anti-racist and anti-oppressive work is not optional add-on learning, but an ethical commitment.

If you are asking:
How do I bring social and political awareness into embodied therapeutic practice?
How do I avoid replicating harm while remaining grounded and relational?
How do I respond, rather than retreat, in polarised times?

This space may be for you.

The question is not whether racism and oppression are present in the field.
The question is how we meet them.

Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-racism-anti-oppressive-practice-from-a-gestalt-perspective-tickets-1602609079899?aff=oddtdtcreator

 Step Into Advanced Supervision. Train at the Highest Level.

Begins May 2026
Teach Bhríde, Co. Carlow + Online
Eligible for accreditation with IACP & IAHIP

If you are already practising and know you’re capable of more, more depth, more authority, more embodied presence in the supervisory field, this programme is designed for you.
The Certificate in Gestalt Clinical Supervision is not a skills add-on. It is an 18-month, immersive training shaped by internationally recognised Gestalt leaders and grounded in rigorous, relational practice.

You will train within a small, carefully selected cohort of 16 practitioners. This is intentional. Depth requires containment. Excellence requires challenge.

You will learn from globally respected Gestalt thinkers whose work continues to influence contemporary supervision internationally, alongside a deeply experienced local faculty committed to relational integrity and embodied learning.

This is supervision training that is:

• Experiential and field-sensitive
• Grounded in embodiment, not abstraction
• Responsive to power, diversity, and organisational complexity
• Creatively alive and clinically rigorous

You Will Develop

• Embodied supervisory skills
• Capacity to navigate complex relational and organisational dynamics
• Field-centred awareness informed by context and personal autonomy
• Creative confidence with difficult supervisory moments
• Depth dialogue, challenge, and transformative feedback

First Residential: 22–24 May 2026
Investment: €3,950 (instalments available)

As with all of our programmes places are limited to ensure the highest quality.

If you are serious about advancing your supervisory practice, now is the time to act.

Review the full programme and secure your place:
https://gestaltinstitute.ie/gestalt-supervision
Request your application form: admin@gestaltinstitute.ie

Applications require two references and an online interview.

Hi all

I am a Master’s student in Psychotherapy at DBS and I am currently conducting research exploring the use and meaning of dark humour in psychotherapy practice, including how therapists understand its impact on the therapeutic relationship and clinical work.

I am inviting qualified psychotherapists (including pre-accredited and accredited practitioners) to take part in a confidential, one-to-one interview lasting approximately 60 minutes. Interviews will explore therapists’ reflections on the function and clinical implications of humour within psychotherapy practice.

Participation is entirely voluntary, and all data will be anonymised. The study has received ethical approval from my training institution DBS.

If you are interested in taking part, or would like further information before deciding, please contact me at the email address below.

Thank you for considering contributing to this research.

Best Regards,
Jamie Weir
jamieweir15@hotmail.com

View additional information about the study and interview process>>

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) 5 night Residential Intensive Course with
Anne Kirwan
Certified MSC Teacher

September 27th @ 4.00pm-October 2nd, 2026, at 1.00pm

Come Join me at Ballyvaloo Retreat and Conference Centre, County Wexford

Learn to use the core practices of self-compassion so that it is possible to love others without losing yourself

This intensive training offers you a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the key practices of mindful self-compassion, based on the research and work of the founders Kristin Neff and Chris Germer. Learn how powerful and transformative mindful self-compassion is, while staying at relaxing single ensuite accommodation, nourished by freshly prepared food and a beautiful 11 km beach!

This somatic and experiential Intensive is particularly suited to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and ALL mental health professionals to enhance and deepen your personal and professional understanding of self-compassion.

CPD Hours: 30 Hours Awarded

Special IAHIP Offer: €70 off Tuition Fee. Quote IAHIP70 on Application Form

For Further Information, MSC Testimonials, Registration and Payment Process:

Annual-Residential-Mindful-Self-Compassion-Intensive 

Email: mailto:info@ashehouse.ie

Mobile:  +353872054524

I look forward to sharing this journey with you!

Anne Kirwan

“Close Your Eyes, Fall in Love, Stay There!”

Rumi

Enjoy connectivity with other experienced psychotherapists while fulfilling your supervision criteria.

As a participant you will already be a competent psychotherapist and have your own self support.

Jim FitzGibbon is an IAHIP supervisor and Associate Member of European Association of Gestalt Therapy. He leans into a relational, body-oriented, gestalt field theory, oriented towards what is happening in the groups’ field of experience.

In supervision he will give his ethical leaning while equally supporting the participants growth.

Cost: 60 euro per 2 hour session, monthly, up to ten sessions per annum, with up to four supervisees in each group. Delivery will be by Zoom Choices are 8am/7pm Thursday or 10am on Friday.

Email:jamesfitzgibbon57@gmail.com

CPD - Beyond Self-Care: A Journey Back to Connection - The Regeneration Process (RP)

"This isn't just a workshop; it's a way home to your tribe.”

Dr. Ame Cutler, Founder of Transgenerational Regeneration Institute, in the US, and International Trauma Expert.

Dublin | Feb 28 – March 1, 2026

If you have been feeling "soul-tired" or a quiet sense of powerlessness in the face of our changing world, know that true healing doesn't happen in isolation. You don't need certainty to begin, and you don't need a perfect story for "why now."

This is an invitation to move from powerlessness to presence. We will bridge the gap between individual trauma and collective action, restoring the bonds between ourselves, our community, and the Earth.

The Regeneration Process (RP) is a somatic-spiritual framework designed to address the "degenerative" cycles of our modern era - ecological destruction, systemic trauma, and isolation. Through a blend of transpersonal psychology, ancestral wisdom, and somatic practice, this workshop explores how what heals the individual can heal the collective.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the link between transgenerational trauma and ecological crisis.
• Explore the 6 phases of the Regeneration Process.
• Learn to apply somatic techniques to work with eco-anxiety and community grief.
• Bridge Western psychological theory with spiritual and shamanic perspectives on change.

The Practicalities

Dates: Saturday, Feb 28 (09:00–17:30) & Sunday, March 1 (09:00–16:30)

Venue: Marino Institute, Griffith Ave, Dublin D09 R232

CPD: 12 Hours

Investment: C330

Financial Support: We believe resources should not be a barrier to this work. Access pathways and alternative payment options are available. If you need support, please reach out - we will meet you.

How to Join

• Register: Click to Register
• Local Organisers: Carol Duffy: carolduffyid@gmail.com | +353 86 8058622
• Catherine Slattery: slattery.ce@gmail.com | +353 86 0320321

https://www.transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org/

Newly decorated psychotherapy room available to sub-let in Dun Laoghaire. Room is south-facing at the rear of the first floor of the property. There is a buzzer in the room, allowing for direct client access. The property has toilet facilities, fridge and microwave. There is free parking at back of building for therapist renting the room. Excellent location just off main street in Dun Laoghaire.

The room is available Monday, Tuesday and Friday and weekends. A minimum of two days rental per week is required to avail of the room (letting by hour or part-day is not available).

Please e-mail any queries to mulgravetherapy@gmail.com