Qualifications

  • Paddy’s practice is trauma informed and he holds a Certificate in Childhood Developmental Trauma.

  • He also holds a Certificate in Sex Therapy and Emotional Focussed Therapy from the Ackerman Institute in New York. 

Systemic psychotherapist

Paddy Conolly

Work Experience

Paddy Connolly holds a Master of Science in Systemic Psychotherapy (MSc) from University College Dublin and has over 600 hours of supervised therapeutic practice. He is a registered member of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland and the Irish Council for Psychotherapy. Paddy is also certified in workplace, commercial and family mediation and conflict coaching. He has over 200 hours of mediation practice with separating couples. 

Underlying philosophy

Paddy’s therapeutic experience covers a range of themes including: child and adult anxiety; depression and suicidal thoughts; couples conflict and couples relationship counselling; school and exam stress and anxiety; self-harm; eating and diet anxieties; gender identity and gender transition; parent/child conflict and family conflict. Paddy has extensive experience working with children, young people, teenagers, young adults, individuals, couples and family groups.  Prior to working in systemic psychotherapy Paddy worked with children and young people in a number of social care settings and in youth and community work.    Paddy is also an experienced CEO having worked in the voluntary and community sector for over 20 years.    As well as his psychotherapy qualifications, he holds Social Care qualifications, a Bachelor of Arts in Management and a Master in International Relations. 

Paddy Conolly

Qualifications

Masters in Psychotherapy, Higher Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor (Hons) in Deaf Studies. Joanne trained as a psychotherapist at Dublin Business School and also holds a registration with the Registry of Irish Sign Language Interpreters after completing a degree in Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Paddy Conolly

Work Experience

Joanne has worked in both public and private psychotherapy practice as a student and graduate psychotherapist. She works in a humanistic integrative way, focusing on the client and their potential for growth and self-integration. Methods are adapted based on the client’s needs and what they bring to the room, as opposed to using one fixed method. Joanne has experience working with issues such as depression, anxiety, identity issues, trauma, addiction, family systems, abuse, and relationship problems.

Underpinning Philosophy

Although trained in a humanistic manner, Joanne pulls from the integrative elements of her training quite frequently by using methods from psychodynamic, gestalt and existential therapies.

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