Psychotherapy, Counselling & Mind Coaching
Eileen offers an integrative and humanistic approach that values you as the expert of your own life. She works collaboratively with you to explore what truly matters, helping you navigate life’s challenges with confidence and self-awareness.
Eileen´s approach draws from years of experience in wellness, business leadership and international relocation, bringing a diverse skill set to her practice. Her background in C-suite strategy, combined with her training track record in human psychology and sociology, allows her to tailor her counselling and psychotherapy to meet your specific needs. Whether a person is seeking immediate relief from anxiety or exploring deeper emotional patterns, Eileen integrates techniques from Client-Centred therapy to CBT and insights from Psychoanalytic and Attachment theory to guide a client´s self-awareness to transform underlying struggles.
At the heart of her work is the therapeutic relationship built on trust, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard. This partnership is key in working with clients to overcome obstacles from anxiety, addiction, and neurodivergence to performance blocks. Eileen also offers mind coaching to help professionals reach their full potential by addressing mental and emotional barriers, enabling them to thrive both personally and professionally.
Eileen’s goal is to guide you towards greater fulfilment, peace, and a stronger sense of self. By embracing this journey of self-discovery, you're taking the first step toward lasting transformation and a more authentic, empowered life.
Credentials
Accreditation & Membership:
Certified Associate, Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP), Pre-Accredited, Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP)
Certifications:
MSc Merit in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy (TPI/UCC), MPhil Merit in Gender Studies (TCD), BA Hons in Organisational Behaviour (BDS), Professional Certificate in Couples Therapy (ICT)
Work Experience:
Currently in blended private practice (in-person and online), UCD Student Counselling and Psychotherapy programme, with 10 years' experience in substance and behavioural addiction, para-addiction/affected family peer support (USA, UK, IE), business professional life balance mentoring (USA, UK), international seminar presentations on sociology and identity, and peer support groups during the pandemic lockdown.
Training & Continued Professional Learning:
SilverCloud Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Life Skills Programme, Working with Neurodiversity in the Therapy Room, Managing Adult ADHD Programme (UMAAP), Pieta House Suicide and Self-Harm Research in Practice, Sensorimotor in Practice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Organisations, Intergenerational Trauma - Addiction and Recovery, Working with Behavioural Addictions (Gambling, Gaming, Pornography), Eating Disorders in Students, Psychological First Aid, Culture of Violence, Impact of Media, Gender Norms, Organisational Psychotherapy, Development Stages, TUSLA Mandatory Reporting, AWARE Attachment Styles & Relationships in Depression, Mythology in Psychology.
Therapeutic Practice:
Humanistic and Integrative – Eileen takes a client-customised approach to working with individuals or couples, drawing from a diverse range of therapeutic techniques and skills that best suit their unique needs. With deep curiosity and congruence, she guides clients towards self-awareness and personal growth. Eileen’s approach integrates years of training and experience in various modalities, including Person-Centred, Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, Sensorimotor, and Jungian therapy, tailoring these methods to each client’s lived experience.
Lived Experience:
Schooling and work background globally, including in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, and Germany. 15 years of business experience working with Fortune 500 companies, 10 years in creative arts performance and production, and extensive background in outdoor sports.
Licensing:
Police-vetted. Medically insured.
The Therapy Practice
Eileen´s blended framework ensures that each client receives an experience that is not only effective but tailored to their unique needs.
One-on-one therapy provides a uniquely individualised space. Humanistic therapy offers the framework to better understand yourself, build emotional resilience, and gain clarity. Eileen’s approach combines proven techniques with a focus on your personal experiences, ensuring you're leading your own healing. With bespoke support through active listening and intervention, you’ll gain insight and self-awareness, equipping you with the tools to navigate your life.
Individual Therapy
Respectful and caring communication is essential for healthy and fulfilling relationships, while fear and assumptions can lead to conflict and isolation. Eileen draws on both professional expertise and lived experience to nurture a couple´s mutual respect and care, improve understanding, process grief and trauma, and navigate life transitions. The integrative method draws from several modalities, including differentiation and vulnerability, to address the core relationship with our own identity, fostering personal growth as an individual while celebrating the strength of diversity within a partnership.
Couples Therapy
In Person & Online
With flexibility and accessibility at the forefront, Eileen works with clients both globally and locally through a blended therapy practice that offers the best of both worlds: in-person and online sessions. Eileen collaborates with each client to create the ideal framework for their therapeutic journey, whether that be in a room, walking together, or through a co-created virtual framework. This practice offers a supportive space that meets you where you are.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”
Leonard Cohen
Specialised areas of Treatment
Through extensive academic and skills training Eileen works to bring current and experience lead treatments to each presenting issue.
Anxiety & Burn out
Chronic stress can leave people feeling drained and unable to cope with everyday life. Eileen helps identify both internal and social causes, working collaboratively with clients to develop coping strategies that restore balance and well-being. Integrating transpersonal and psychodynamic approaches deepens emotional and psychological awareness, guiding you to healing, and resilience.
Trauma & Addiction
If there is something you are doing that you want to stop but can´t, have lost the power of choice and are in a spiral of craving and shame, you are not alone. Eileen is trauma-informed, focusing on exploring the roots of these challenges, using tools like CBT and somatic techniques to support healing and growth. With a deep respect for your unique journey, Eileen creates a safe, trusting space to help you reclaim your sense of self and regain choice
Relationships
Eileen recognises the profound impact relationships have on your well-being and how past experiences shape your present. By integrating the differentiation and vulnerability models, she fosters greater understanding and respect for diversity within couples and families, while nurturing the value of your relationship with yourself. Eileen holds space for clients to explore their connection with intimacy and sensuality with themselves, and how these play a part in their relationship with others.
Immigration & Transitions
Big changes, whether recovering from a divorce or breakup, coping with grief, or adjusting to a new career or country, can feel overwhelming. Eileen´s learned experience in international relocation to 8 countries guided Eileen to develop a humanistic approach to deep feelings of loss with any change drawing on your unique inner strengths to navigate through new experiences and thrive in new beginnings.
Business & Performance
Eileen´s mind coaching can unlock your full potential, both personally and professionally, by navigating mental barriers, enhancing performance, and cultivating a healthier, more fulfilling life. Eileen brings a unique blend of therapeutic expertise and a proven track record in business performance. Her experience in C-suite leadership and, she understands the pressures of high-level work and the value of self-belief and creativity in success.
Identity & Self Acceptance
Drawing from her own academic research and therapeutic insight, Eileen fosters a deeper understanding of your authentic self. The exploration of identity presentations, such as gender, nationality, sexuality, and neurodivergence, is tailored to each client. The process is centred on breaking through limiting patterns and supporting your journey towards greater self-acceptance and personal growth.
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