The UCD School of Medicine MScX348 Child Art Psychotherapy is open to applications for September 2023.

This programme is a four-year, part-time taught master’s programme. Suitable for professionals from a broad range of backgrounds including teachers, nurses, counsellors, social workers, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists who wish to specialise in using images in a psychotherapeutic context to understand the inner world of the child.

Teaching comprises lectures, seminars, training in Child Art Psychotherapy. Individual and group supervision session. Placement in Child and Adolescent Mental Health teams as part of the programme.

Eligibility Criteria:

• A third level degree or equivalent is required.
• Experience of working with children and adolescents within mental health or educational settings is an advantage.

• Applicants are short-listed based on their previous professional experience and the short-listed candidates are interviewed to assess their suitability.

• Successful applicants are required to consent to garda clearance being sought which is standard procedure for professionals engaged in direct work with young people.

For a more detailed programme description and application advice, visit our website or email aine.begley@ucd.ie

Join us on July 12, 2023, in Dublin for an informative session on IAHIP membership and the accreditation process.

During the event, we will guide you through the accreditation process and provide insights from a recently accredited IAHIP member.

It's an excellent opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of IAHIP membership and how to obtain accreditation.

The room will open at 7pm, with the event starting at 7.15pm.

When: 12/07/2023 19:00 - 20:30
Location: Skylon Hotel, 27 Upper Drumcondra Rd, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 V1Y2.

You can find out more information and register by [clicking here>>>]

GESTALT INSTITUTE OF IRELAND CONFERENCE Moving, Sensing, Feeling, Bodies: Renewing Hope in a Fracturing World
When: 14/15 October 2023 
Where: Limerick, Ireland

 "One week remaining to secure your Early Bird Discount to experience exciting conference workshops and speakers"

From our earliest years of life, it is through our bodies-in-relation to other bodies that we make sense of experience.  In an increasingly fracturing world affected by wars, climate crisis, and migration of people from their homelands, we will explore how our embodied knowing can permeate the relational situation to instil hope.

Building on these themes, our conference gathering aims to…

This Conference will be of interest to Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative Psychotherapists, Supervisors and students.

Our speakers will offer exciting provocations and embodied explorations for those of us interested to (re)turn home to our bodies, a moving emergent body that is of a relational situation and a field.

We hope you will join us in co-creating possibilities for renewal, restoration and hope in the midst of a fracturing world replete with pain.

Click here for more information:
https://www.gestalt-institute-of-ireland-conference.org

Working with the Body in Therapy
- Introductory Training Modules 2023

LifeChange Psychotherapy is providing a series of Introductory Integrative Bodywork Training Modules for therapists interested in developing and specialising in bodywork, bioenergetics and body process awareness and tracking for their client-work.

September-November 2023 Introductory Training (Day) Modules

Training Module Dates 2023:

Sat 23rd September; Sat 21st October; Sat 25th November (Choose 1 date/option) Time: 9.30am-4.30pm

Following participation in any one of these introductory day-modules, you may apply for the next1^st level course (8 modules / 4 weekends) commencing Jan-May 2024.

For more details & how to apply see: www.lifechange.ie/training
Email: training@lifechange.ie | Ph: 01 661 2220

More Details:

About the Facilitator:

Brian Gillen is an experienced psychotherapist specialising for over ten years in bodywork and body-based psychotherapy as a practitioner and trainer. He is also a clinical supervisor, director and founder of LifeChange Psychotherapy & Counselling and Body Psychotherapy Ireland. He holds a masters degree in psychotherapy and has trained with the IPP and abroad in various bodywork, biodynamic and bioenergetic approaches to therapy. He has been a long-standing member of IAHIP, ICP and inaugural Chair of CORU’s Counselling & Psychotherapy Registration Board.

My name is Lisa Murphy, and I am a final year student on the MSc in Psychotherapy, awarded by Dublin City University. I am seeking fully qualified, accredited therapists to participate in the above- named research project and would be very grateful for your participation. My research supervisor is Dr Gerry Moore, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Associate Professor in Psychotherapy in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, DCU

Boundaries in psychotherapy outline and clarify the nature of acceptable interactions with our clients in therapeutic work. They serve to protect both the client and therapist against harm. The research literature reveals some definitions of boundaries and offers examples of common boundary issues. A review of the research literature reveals a gap regarding how psychotherapists understand the concept of boundary issues and how they experience them in real-world clinical practice. Furthermore, research by Gardner et al. (2017) highlights grey areas around the behaviours that clinicians consider to be boundary transgressions.

This research intends to explore psychotherapists’ experiences of boundary crossings during clinical practice in Ireland. The study aims to gain insight into the way in which psychotherapists deal with boundary issues in the moment, the subsequent impact on the therapeutic relationship and ultimately the influence, if any, on the psychotherapists’ professional approach moving forward.

The study will be undertaken via a semi-structured interview format, lasting 50–60 mins. Participation is voluntary and participants can withdraw from the study up to one week post interview. Participants will be assigned pseudonyms and no identifying information will be used in the study.

If you are interested in participating in this research or would just like to know more, please contact me at lisa.murphy256@mail.dcu.ie. I would greatly appreciate your help and time with this research.

Student Research Study

An exploration of professional self-doubt among qualified psychotherapists

You are invited to take part in a study entitled “An exploration of experiences of professional self-doubt among qualified psychotherapists” as part of my Masters’ study in Integrative Psychotherapy at Dublin City University (DCU).

You are eligible to participate if you are a qualified/accredited psychotherapist with at least five years’ experience, are fluent in English, and have had encountered some level of self-doubt within your professional life.

You will be invited to participate in an interview lasting approximately an hour either at your place of work or in the Healthy Living Centre in DCU’s Glasnevin Campus, whichever is more suitable for you. If you prefer, you can also be interviewed via a Zoom video-call.

Your participation in this study will be completely voluntary.

If you would like to learn more about this study, please contact me by phone or email.

Deirdre Hogan 089 264 7095 or deirdre.hogan29@mail.dcu.ie

Centre for MindBody Integration

Transgenerational Regeneration Institute
www.transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org

RPM Introduction Workshop: Dublin,Ireland
Presented by Dr Ame Cutler

July 8 & 9, 2023
Saturday & Sunday 9.00 to17.00
€330 (Light Lunch Included) 13 CPD Hours
25% of your tuition fee will be donated to a non-profit organization of your choosing currently listed on the TRI Website 

Regeneration Process Method Two Day Workshop

This workshop is open to one and all-if you are interested in bringing about regeneration and transformation on a transgenerational, personal, community and earth level this workshop is for you!

"As change-agents, those of us in the healing professions, activists for equality, social justice and climate crisis concerns, and spiritual leaders in community make it our life’s purpose to assist in the transformation of human experience and planetary well-being."

"The process of regeneration has always been experienced as the essential step beyond sustainability. The act of regeneration is a participatory endeavor, one that affords a deep connection with Spirit and Nature, the seen and unseen community of all living beings."
Dr Ame Cutler

Location: Ashe House, Centre for MindBody Integration, K45 TK85
Local Organizer: Anne Kirwan info@ashehouse.ie
Register and pay online at: Offerings - Transgenerational Regeneration Institute
Limited Places Available - book early to avoid disappointment!

Supervision Group: Psychodynamic & Systemic Approach
Dr. Evelyn P. Gilmore
September, 2023, to May, 2024.

Group Supervision

This group provides an opportunity for coaches, organisational consultants, organisational psychologists and group facilitators tobe supported in their work through a small group supervision process. This supervision group will also be pertinent for human resource professionals, training and development professionals and allied professionals. The group supervision provides a space for group participants to reflect on their work with individual clients, to reflect on their work with groups and/or to reflect on their internal / external organisational consultancy projects.

The group will be facilitated from a psychodynamic and systemic perspective. When working from a psychodynamic perspective, feelings and thoughts that operate below the surface are sometimes brought to the surface so that they can be better understood and worked through. In addition, coaches and consultants who operate in an organisational system or who work with clients within organisations can gain new insights into the complexity of their environments and the various systemic elements that may be impacting on them and/or their clients.

Supervisor: Dr.Evelyn P. Gilmore B.A., M.Sc., Prof. D., C. Psychol. Ps.S.I., M.A.C., M.I.A.H.I.P.

Evelyn is a consultant work & organisational psychologist, an accredited psychotherapist, a business and executive coach, a coach trainer and a supervisor of coaches and organisational consultants. She has an honours degree in psychology from national university of Ireland, Galway, and a first class honours masters in work and organisational psychology from Dublin City University. She has received a Tavistock Qualification in Consulting from the Tavistock in London, and has completed a Professional Doctorate in Organisational Consultancy with the Tavistock. Evelyn has worked at a senior level with world class organisations, and her current clients include individuals, groups and organisations from both the public, private and voluntary sector. In addition, she has lectured on organisational change to masters students in the department of management in the University of Galway, and has been a visiting lecturer to doctorate students in the Tavistock in London.

Dates and Times

Saturday, 16^thSeptember, 2023. 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Saturday, 11^thNovember, 2023. 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Saturday, 6^thJanuary, 2024. 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Saturday, 9^th March, 2024. 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Saturday, 11^thMay, 2024. 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

There will be a 20 minutes coffee break mid-morning, and tea / coffee will be provided during this time.

Programme Venue and Cost

The group supervision will be held in The Grand Hotel, Malahide, Dublin. The total cost of the Group Supervision for the year is €1,210plus VAT of 23% per person. This amounts to a total of €1,488.30 per person.

The Supervision fee can be paid in two instalments. The first instalment / booking deposit of €800 is paid on acceptance of the place in the supervision group. The balance of €688.30is payable on or before the 6^th January, 2024.

Reservation Details

The numbers are limited to six participants in the Group.

If you are interested in reserving a place in the supervision group, please contact Evelyn P. Gilmore. Telephone Evelyn on 087 794 4048. Alternatively, you can contact Evelyn by e-mail on evelyngilmore15@gmail.com

My name is Patrick McElligott, I am a Gestalt practitioner-researcher, psychotherapist and Queer man. I am currently undertaking a Postgraduate Masters with the Gestalt Institute of Ireland.

For my master’s dissertation, I would like to enquire with other Gay male Gestalt therapists, about the experience of working with Eros in the therapeutic space, with Gay male clients.

The title of my master's is: Exploring the Erotic with Gay Men: How do I, as a Gay Queer Gestalt therapist, navigate Eros, in the therapeutic space with Gay Male clients?

I would like to engage in this co-research with 2 or 3 colleagues. If you feel you fit the criteria of being a gay man working with gay clients as a gestalt therapist in Ireland, I would like to invite you to contact me to have a conversation about taking part in my research inquiry.

I can be contacted by email at pmcelligott@me.com or call me on 087122 3140

Research Information Form

THERAPY ROOM RENTAL

Spacious and comfortable therapy rooms for hire in Skerries, Co. Dublin

Sessional and block booking arrangements available for daytime, evening and weekends. Free on street parking. This relaxing space is suitable for adult counselling and psychotherapy. A creative therapy room is also available for play therapy, art therapy or sand tray therapy.

Contact Jennifer to enquire
www.starlightpsychotherapy.ie
starlightpsychotherapy@gmail.com 086 862 3993