About Me

About me in three words? Patient. Dependable. Approachable. I’m an Irish psychologist, and bring what I describe as a relaxed, steady warmth to therapy. This means working with professionalism, but without being clinical or cold. An essential part of my job is to help you restore and nurture a bit more trust in yourself and your own capacities. It’s hard for you to do that if you feel like you can’t relax into the space we create together.

Expertise

My depth of expertise lies in working with relationship difficulties, identity conflicts, depression, cultural integration, work stress and burnout, and LGBTQIA+ life. I have academic interest in the psychology and philosophy of intimate relationships, and have clinical experience of working with depression and relationship issues. My lived experience informs much of my practice, particularly with respect to my categories of expertise. I’m a cultural omnivore, interested in the arts, sport, philosophy, and politics.

Professional and personal experience

Before starting out as a private practice psychologist I’ve had a winding life path, working in the creative arts, community outreach, and education with psychology, counselling, and personal development. I’ve also been out there living life itself, accruing personal experience of what it means to be human. Beautiful, unforgettable highs mixed with scarring, heavy lows. The feeling and texture of those ups and downs are within me, too. I come to my work then, both as a professional and as just another human being, making their way in a harsh, sometimes unforgiving world. Being a helpful psychologist means drawing on both professional knowledge and personal life learning.

Values

My personal values align most closely with those of humanistic and existential psychology. This means I am interested in meeting you as a whole person, not you as some category of life problems from a textbook. I don’t believe quick ‘solutions’ can be just learned off and applied to someone’s life. We have to get in touch with your unique complexity as a person. Those solutions have to work in the context of your life and how you choose to live it.

Help should also start with the warmth of basic human connection. I am wholly dedicated to my work as a psychologist, and hold deep respect for every person that looks to engage in a therapeutic process. It takes guts and personal strength to want to actively do something about life problems – I really admire that courage.

I welcome you to be in touch if you’d like to open up the possibility of therapy.

Thanks to Jose Manuel Manolo González for my portraits, he’s a Copenhagen-based photographer.