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  • 14/05/2024 10:29 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Are you an accredited psychotherapist who has experience working with adolescents or young adults with a history of cancer?

    If yes, I am eager to connect with you. I am conducting a qualitative research project delving into existential themes arising in therapy for individuals aged 16- 24 yrs.

    If you are interested, please reach out to me via email: nmcdonal@tcd.ie

    Click here>>> to access the information leaflet.

  • 07/05/2024 12:23 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy Ireland presents

    “Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) for Parents and Caregivers”

    A four-day workshop for clinicians

    Presented by Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen and Vanja Hjelmseth


    Marino Institute of Education, Marino, Dublin Monday 17th – Thursday 20th June, 2024, 10am-5pm

    Cost: €875 (€800 early bird fees paid in full by 10/05/2024).

    This workshop is open to all relevant mental health professionals working with children and their parents or caregivers (e.g., psychology, psychotherapy, social care, social work, occupational therapy, teaching, nursing and medicine).

    This training gives a complete overview of the theory, practice, and research of an emotion centered, humanistic approach to supporting parents (and caregivers) of individuals who struggle with any mental health challenge. Emotion Focused Skills Training (EFST) conveys an unyielding belief in caregiver’s motivation and ability to heal the caregiver-child relationship and help their child (young, adolescent, or adult child) through their struggles. Drawing on the most current understanding of emotions and human development, the model clearly outlines a central role for parents and caregivers in treating and preventing mental health difficulties in their families and care environments. The training of EFST clinicians is practically oriented and experience-based, which means that participants learn specific skills in how to supervise parents and give parent workshops. Participants will get all the material needed to deliver parent/caregiver workshops and individual counseling sessions.

    Anne Hilde Vassbø Hagen is a psychologist, author, mother of three, and filmmaker who produced the popular educational film series Alfred & Shadow. She is head of the Institute of Psychological Counseling, Inc., in Norway, and the director of The Norwegian Institute of Emotion-Focused Therapy. She has written several books in Norwegian about emotions. She is co-author of two English books; Emotion-Focused Skills Training for Parents: A Guide for Clinicians and Angry kids, Angry Parents – Understanding and Working with Anger in Your Family. She is an experienced trainer, speaker, and therapist in emotion focused therapy and emotion focused skills training for parents and is also trained in emotion focused couple’s therapy.

    Vanja Hjelmseth is a psychologist, author, and mother of two teens. She is an experienced speaker, and therapist in emotion focused therapy and emotion focused skills training for parents and is also trained in emotion focused couple’s therapy. She is a co-author of Emotion-Focused Skills Training for Parents: A Guide for Clinicians and is an EFT and EFST trainer.


    For all enquiries and bookings, please contact: ieftireland@gmail.com

    The Institute of Emotion Focused Therapy, Ireland is an accredited isEFT institute.


  • 07/05/2024 11:42 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Soul work in Nature


    I am inviting you to join me in celebrating nature and to experience nature’s healing presence by spending time in the woodland. It will be a day immersed in nature. We will use nature, poetry, rituals, and creativity to connect with the time of year and with ourselves. You will have a chance to be still, reflective, and self - compassionate.

    Venue: near Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
    Date: Sunday May 26th, 2024
    Accredited by PTUK for 7 CPD points

    Cost: €130 - Workshop runs from 9.30am-5pm Limited accommodation available if required

    If you cannot make this date but are interested in attending the workshop at another time please let me know.

    You can contact me at:

    Madeleine Grant
    087 298 1642
    Email: wicklowcreativeartstherapy@gmail.com
    Website: https://www.wicklowplayandcreativeartstherapy.com/

    Madeleine Grant, MIACP, MSC, RGN, Accredited Play/Creative Arts Therapist and Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Certificate in Environmental Art Therapy. 

  • 07/05/2024 11:23 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    A Gestalt Approach To Stepfamily Relationships



    30% discount for IAHIP Members

    Facilitated by Claire Asherson Bartram DPsych.

    This part experiential, part didactic workshop will explore the contrasting relationships in stepfamilies. We will consider what supports individuals and couples in stepfamily and similar situations to move towards becoming an integrated family ‘body’. The workshop will be a confidential space for experimentation, exploration and learning and we will consider ways to support stepfamily members to get over themselves and find ways through difficult situations.

    The workshop will be run over two days 25th and 26th May 2024 in Limerick.

    For a one week only we are offering IAHIP members a 30% discount on the cost of the workshop.

    Please use the link below to find out more about the workshop and use the code “IAHIP30” at the check out to receive your discount.

    [Click here>>>] to access further information.

  • 07/05/2024 09:51 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Evening & Daytime Therapy Room Rental in Dublin City

    Contact us on 01 661 2220 | Email: info@lifechange.ie

    For more details & photos see: www.lifechange.ie/room-rental

    • Special Summer Discount for All New Therapy Rental
    • Evening Hours Available Currently
    • Comfortable, Well Appointed Equipped Therapy Rooms
    • Free Clinical Referrals and Online Scheduling Calendar
    • High Speed Wifi for Online Therapy Sessions
    • Open Days a Week from 8am to 10pm

    We especially welcome pre-accredited and accredited therapists to join our practice at 5 Clanwilliam Square, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2

  • 07/05/2024 09:21 | Anonymous member (Administrator)
    Recognised by Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

    10 CPD hours. Live online July 12th 7-9.30pm, 13th 9.30am-1.30 and 14th 9.30am-1pm.

    Have you noticed the recent media surge in interest in menopause? You may not be aware of how much misinformation a woman is trusting at the moment, and how frightening it all is for this generation

    Have you noticed relationship struggles seem so often to appear in couples where the woman is in her 40s or early 50s? You may not be aware of the possible hormonal reasons for this. Your clients are unlikely to either.

    Running since May 2023, in this course you will gain understanding of the biochemical impact of menopause, and how it, society, social media and even medical and lifestyle advice can negatively contribute to a woman's stability, behaviour, feelings and energy in distinct ways, and impact her family, colleagues and friends.

    • Not just about the woman herself, you will gain insight into how perimenopause can affect relationships, and learn enough to help couples, families & friends, understand the impact the fluctuations of reproductive hormones have on their sense of each other.
    • The physical impacts on the body, and on hormones other than reproductive ones, will be made clear, helping you contextualise why some menopausal women may seem unable to implement suggestions for changes to improve their wellbeing, and how, if appropriate, you can help a woman overcome these impediments.
    • The nervous system is key to the severity of the perimenopause experience, and you will learn an array of useful techniques to support nervous system resilience in your clients, via stimulation of the Vagus nerve and other strategies. 
    • Trauma sensitivity in menopause because the struggles of perimenopause can be experienced as a loss of control, power and comfort in being who we are, and in feeling how we are feeling. The connection of menopause to trauma history, trauma-sensitive language and adjustments will be taught.
    • Somatic techniques adjusted for the menopausal woman because a woman’s relationship with her body can change. You will be resourced with simple techniques to help clients stay connected to their body.
    • The “feel-good hormones” are affected by the reduction in the reproductive hormones. In taking this course, you will learn in-session, and outside-session ways to encourage the release of these hormones in your clients, which can help with mood, libido, sleep, digestion, sociability and so much more.

    There will be space to discuss particular challenges your clients are facing. These discussions will help professionals support a wide array of individual manifestations of this life phase.

    Supporting women’s health since 2004 one-to-one, in workshops, trainings, talks, retreats and classes, I help them understand the menopause transition and adjust their perspectives and lifestyle habits to ease their changing mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.

    Developing Yoga for the Stages of Menopause since 2015, in 2020 my 40 hour Teacher Training of the same name was accredited and launched, educating hundreds of teachers worldwide, & reaching tens of thousands of women through them. My CPD for Health, Wellness and Fitness coaches is also studied around the world.

    Niamh Daly BAHons, RYT, Senior Yoga Teacher & Trainer, Advanced Dip Nutrition & Health Coaching, Pilates Instructor, Speaker, Author & guest teacher in Yoga for Women’s Health trainings worldwide.

    “Niamh de-mystified and teased out fact from fiction with rigour and a light touch. It made for a highly engaging, stimulating and helpful exploration of the impact of the key stages of peri-menopause and menopause on a woman’s system and on her life. And, in many ways most importantly, offered practical evidence-based interventions to ease the way. I found it insightful and hugely useful.” Catríona Edwards, Psychotherapist

    Course recognised by IACP
    10 CPD points.
    €195.

    Contact me niamhdaly55@gmail.com or read more & book by [clicking here>>>].

  • 30/04/2024 15:08 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Psychotherapy Division Presents: Strategic Psychotherapeutics - Using the Building Blocks of Clinical Science to Enhance Practice

    12 October 2024, from 10 am to 4.30 pm, In Person

    Location: Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, D09 R232

    This event is being run by the Division of Psychotherapy

    There are over four hundred approaches to psychotherapy, most of which branch from the primary streams of learning including clinical experience, empirical evidence, theoretical systems, and evidence from related disciplines such as developmental, relational, and cognitive psychology, as well as neuroscience.

    The basic building blocks of psychotherapeutics that are fundamental to most approaches are well documented. Strategic Psychotherapeutics uses these building blocks to inform evidence-based practices, combining the best empirical evidence and clinical expertise with patient preferences and values.

    In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the StratPsych® system, which delineates the domains of knowledge that constitute the fundamental building blocks of psychotherapy. The therapeutic scope and impact of clinicians can be enhanced when therapists are grounded in the fundamental knowledge domains, which are the building blocks of strategic psychotherapeutics. As clinicians gain an understanding of how these basics relate to approaches and technical interventions, more complex therapeutic activities such as assessment, case formulation, treatment planning, clinical decision making, and alliance maintenance can be appreciated.

    In this workshop, participants will learn the 11 fundamental building blocks of psychotherapeutics, principles, and time-tested clinical constructs used as heuristics that can be used to select the approaches and technical interventions best suited to each patient.

    The goal of this workshop is to enhance clinical expertise by providing the basic, intermediate, and advanced knowledge domains universal to all psychotherapeutics.

    Following the Introduction and Overview, the outline of the day will include sections on:

    - The Building Blocks of Psychotherapy

    - The Fundamental Domains of Knowledge

    - Strategies and Processes

    - Techniques from psychotherapedia ®

    - Assessment, Case Formulation, & Treatment Planning

    - Psychotherapeutic Process

    - Clinical Decision Making

    - The Building Blocks of Psychotherapy

    Presenter bios

    Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP

    Jeffrey is a clinical psychologist with over three decades of clinical experience working with personality dysfunction, trauma, and relational disturbances.

    He is an internationally recognized speaker who has published eleven professional volumes on personality disorders, personality theory, psychotherapy, clinical decision making, and technology in mental health practice. His psychotherapeutic work has been featured in two APA psychotherapy videos. He served on the APA Clinical Practice Guideline Committee and was invited to serve on the Advisory Work Group on the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice. He served as the President in 2010 of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. He is the Founder and CEO of Strategic Psychotherapeutics, LLC, the developer of StratPsych ®, an online learning system for psychotherapists.


    Declan Aherne, Ph.D.

    Declan is a clinical psychologist and gestalt psychotherapist. He was founding chairperson of the division of psychotherapy, PSI and has been a long-standing member of the EFPA working group on psychologists specializing in psychotherapy. Declan is a member of the board of directors at the Gestalt Institute of Ireland. He was Head of Counselling at UL for 32 years and is now Director of Oakwood psychological services in Limerick, which is the largest private practice of its type in the country with 60 clinicians on the team. He is also Clinical Director of the family wellbeing project ‘The Sky is the Limit’, at Corpus Christi primary school, Moyross, Limerick. He has taught on and been external examiner on numerous psychotherapy training programmes in Ireland. 

    This event is being run by the Div of Psychotherapy, Psychological Society of Ireland

    Event Format: In person

    Prices:
    Booking Rate:150
    Early Bird Rate (until June 11):125
    Student:75
    Early Bird Student (until June 11): €50

  • 30/04/2024 14:52 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Following the success of the first IAHIP therapists’ retreat last December we are holding a second one this July.

    The retreat will run from Saturday 13th to Saturday 20th July.

    The cost is €1200. This includes flights (from Shannon or Dublin), full board accommodation in a private room, transfers from the airport and transport on any excursions we may make.

    Each room is split level with sleeping area, sitting area and ensuite shower. There is good space for people to have their own time away from the group as needed (the overall centre is also large  - there are always quiet places to be found).The centre includes swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, games room and extensive gardens and terraces.

    Information about the centre can be seen at www.creativecentretenerife.com and https://www.instagram.com/creativehousetenerife/. It is a converted farm on the east coast of the island, near the heritage towns of Guimar and Candelaria.

    Content of the week is co-curated by all participants to ensure a balance of activities/rest and that gives every individual what they need. In general the emphasis is on informal sharing and support rather than structured sessions.

    Places on the retreat will be allotted on first come first served basis.

    To express an interest email retreats@creativecentretenerife.com or send a whatsapp to 087 210 4583.

  • 23/04/2024 11:59 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    From Shame to Honour

    An experiential personal development workshop

    Shame resides in the core of our being and because of its hidden nature often gets overlooked within therapeutic processes. It is at the heart of most trauma, addiction and behavioural dysfunctions and requires deeper therapeutic examination in order to uncover and heal it.

    For this examination this workshop will explore in depth the many facets that perpetuate shame. The work employs Gestalt techniques. Gestalt is primarily a creative, emotional process incorporating body processes, art, music, ritual and expression.

    Dates: 25th & 26th May 2024

    Venue: De La Salle Retreat Centre, Elderfield, Castletown, Co. Laois, R32 N6D8

    Cost: €300

    Accommodation extra, available on request

    For further details contact:

    Barbara O’ Connell, 086 387 1477
    barbararoconnell@gmail.com

    Alan Hackett, 087 747 4421
    alanhackett@gmail.com

    Facilitators

    Both facilitators are experienced practitioners, trained experientially within a humanistic and integrative framework. Our understanding of humanistic and integrative practice is that it emphasises the selfregulating nature of individuals and the responsibility that they hold for themselves and reinforces the ability of individuals to go beyond themselves to release their true nature and potential. Its focus is holistic in that it cherishes individuals as whole entities and focuses on all elements of an individual-body, feelings, intellect, psyche and spirit as well as marrying a variety of techniques and approaches to healing. The emphasis is on experience where relationship is seen as meaningful contact between individuals.

    Alan Hackett. MA, BA, MIAHIP. Alan is an experienced, accredited psychotherapist working with adults with a diverse range of presenting issues. He also specialises in working with adolescents and young people. He has experience of facilitating growth promoting groups which include families affected by addiction and also young people in aftercare recovery. He is an experienced advanced process group facilitator and facilitator of experiential personal development workshops. He has a keen interest in all things attachment related, and in particular relational and developmental trauma. He has a variety of pertinent trainings undertaken in this area and continues to add to his knowledge base. Alan is currently also a Clinical Supervisor in training.

    Barbara O’ Connell. MA, BA, MIAHIP, ECP. Barbara is an experienced, accredited psychotherapist who works with a variety of presenting issues with both individuals and couples. She is also an accredited supervisor working with individuals and groups. Barbara has extensive experience in working with groups of all levels and abilities. She has facilitated personal development groups with individuals who have physical and sensory disabilities, therapeutic women’s groups with a cohort who have advanced mental health issues as well as 8 years of experience in working within a psychotherapy training context and in cofacilitating advanced therapeutic process groups. She has particular interest in the areas of attachment, neuroscience and trauma and has a variety of relevant trainings in these areas. She has vast experience of producing and co-facilitating experiential personal development workshops with a variety of themes and provides training to psychotherapists in areas primarily related to attachment, trauma and neuroscience.

    Some workshop themes include: Core Beliefs; The Hidden Self; Me, Myself and Mother; Father where art thou; From Shame to Honour; Compassion; The Family; The Spontaneous Child.

  • 23/04/2024 09:25 | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Irish Society of Jungian Analystsin conjunction with the
    Irish Analytical Psychology Association
    Presents live on Zoom

    Thursday, 2nd May 2024: 19:3021:00 (Irish time)

    Exploring Mythology to Uncover Meaning in
    Our Own Lives

    Marlene Frantz
    Jungian Analyst
    *See recommendation by Marian Dunlea, Jungian Analyst on Eventbrite page

    Jung wrote that in each image in a myth “there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history.” In this presentation, Marlene will share her exploration into the myth of Demeter and Persephone, in which she used a reciprocal approach to both extract the essence of the Myth, while deepening her awareness and understanding of events in her own life.

    Marlene Frantz is a Jungian analyst, a Group Psychotherapist, an Equine therapist, an artist and a writer. Her private practice in Santa Monica, California, includes adults, couples, children and bi-monthly dream groups. Ms. Frantz has lectured on creativity, grief, and equine therapy and led workshops on the creative process, dreams, and rebuilding one’s life after loss.  She has contributed articles and been a featured artist in the journal Psychological Perspectives. She is on the Board and a Supervisor at The Coldwater Counseling Center, and a Training Analyst and the President elect of the C.G. Jung institute of Los Angeles.

    Visit Eventbrite for further Information & Booking Details:

    [Click here>>>]

    Registration closes on Wednesday, 1st May @ 18:00

    Admission: €22.42 / Students: €17.07
    Booking is via Eventbrite only

    This event will be recorded, and the link will be available for 2 weeks
    for the personal viewing of registered participants only.

    General enquiries, please contact Nola at
    isja.events@gmail.com