Work Experience

Following her initial training in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Angela worked for two years with LIR Therapy Centre on the Ballymun Road, meeting clients with a broad range of counselling needs. Angela’s Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapeutic training required students to study and employ a variety of theoretical schools in their therapeutic practice; such as Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Object Relations Therapy, Gestalt, CBT and Rogerian Therapy. The benefit of having studied such a wide variety of methods means that Angela can draw upon a variety of approaches within the same therapy session. During her time on the MA in Psychotherapy, Angela developed a special interest in the field of neuroscience; exploring the links between psychotherapy, neuroscience, serious mental illness and the effects of trauma on the developing brain. Angela also works in the Community Sector. She coordinates a low – cost counselling service and delivers a range of supportive/creative groups with a therapeutic basis; targeted mainly for participants coming from a disadvantaged socio-economic background. Angela delivers individual anxiety management and stress reduction sessions as part of her community work. Due to her involvement within the community sector, Angela has a particular interest in the effects of intergenerational poverty and trauma on both the individual and family. Angela specialises in working with Trauma, PTSD, Bereavement, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Maternal Mental Health.