Olive commenced her career in counselling 23 years ago, studying with the Hazelden International Affiliated Training Programme, specializing in Addiction Counselling.
She worked for several years in the Prison Service, Limerick before joining the HSE in 2004 and continues to work full-time with this organization as an Addiction Counsellor.
She qualified as a Supervisor in Counselling and Psychotherapy, with PCI in 2007 and has a busy private practice supervising students and qualified practitioners.
Olive worked for The Learning Curve Institute, as a trainer for over 10 years and most recently joined ICPPD in 2022 as the In-House Supervisor, and Clinical Practice Co Ordinater.
She is accredited with IACP and APCP as a Supervisor and Counselling Psychotherapist.
Dr Boris Hunka is an accredited psychotherapist with IAHIP and ICP, working with adolescents and adults. He holds a Masters in Integrative and Humanistic psychotherapy, a Higher Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy and additional trainings in adolescent, existential and group therapy. . He has been awarded a doctorate by the University of Limerick for research around creativity and relational connection. Boris is resident in a number of health and community programmes for organisations including the HSE and ETBI. He lectures in a number of universities and has been much in demand as speaker and facilitator at conferences and events throughout Ireland and further afield in Europe and Asia. In addition to his work in the field of psychotherapy Boris is an active musician and runs a number of music and wellbeing programmes including Limerick City’s Music Generation programme. In 2019 Boris was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year and was awarded SEI Youth Mental Health award for the Ease Project – a ground breaking programme harnessing music to provide preventative mental health interventions in schools.
Peter is a pre-accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) having trained in Integrative Psychotherapy. He has fulfilled the role of research thesis supervisor for 5+ years, at both Bachelors and Masters levels, within the disciplines of psychotherapy, psychology, teaching, and business for individual and group formats. He has also experience lecturing in research dissertation modules for psychotherapy training and facilitating numerous tutorial groups in various psychology modules, such as personality and social psychology, and research methods.
Peter has volunteered with the IACP’s Northwest Regional Committee since 2021 previously fulfilling the position of student representative and now as vice-chair. He, himself, has also facilitated several continuous professional development workshops on ‘Navigating Your Dissertation in Psychotherapy’ outlining a clear and conceptual guide to each chapter of a research thesis.
Peter is a strong proponent of the role of research in psychotherapy practice and continuous professional development with an expertise and preference for the qualitative methodology, particularly Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), for exploring individuals’ lived experience of phenomena and meaning. Peter has previously published a peer-reviewed article on ADHD and along with this his main areas of research interest include dreams, Jungian Analytics, attachment, existentialism, religion, and psychodynamics.
Peter’s qualifications include:
MSc Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
MSc Health Psychology
BA Denominated Psychology
Maureen Lynch qualified as a Counsellor & Psychotherapist from the Dublin Business School in 2010 and is based in Galway since 2015. Aside from her private practice Maureen has worked in the area of domestic violence supporting women and also facilitates monthly support groups for those with cancer.
She has an MA in Art, Psyche & Creative imagination from TUS, a course centred around understanding Jungian Psychology and using creativity to access unconscious material; providing a combination of techniques which have fed into her therapeutic practice. Her qualifications include:
MA in Art, Psyche & Creative Imagination Technological University of the Shannon, Limerick, 2023
BA (Hons) Counselling & Psychotherapy Dublin Business School, Dublin, 2010
Diploma in Expressive Arts for Professionals ICPPD, Athlone, 2024
Certificate in Integrative Sand Tray Stories Greenane Centre, Tipperary, 2024
Certificate in Jungian Psychology with Art Therapy Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT), Limerick, 2019
Certificate in Group Therapy PCI College Dublin, 2011
Valerie Ballarotti is an established psychotherapist (MIACP, BACP Accred.) with over a decade of clinical experience and a full-time private practice in Galway city. With a background in research and university teaching, her qualifications include an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a PG. Dip. Psychosynthesis Couns. from the University of East London, an MA in European Studies from University College London, and a BA Hons. from the University of Galway. At ICPPD Galway, Valerie teaches Psychosynthesis, Gestalt, and Group Process. Her approach is rooted in her core training in Psychosynthesis, which she completed at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London, and is complemented by subsequent studies in Jungian Psychology and Gestalt. She has a specialist interest in trauma-informed approaches and has trained in Internal Family Systems, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She believes that in both therapy and education, each person’s uniqueness grows best on the soil of our shared humanity.
Keshet Zur, B.A. M.A.
Keshet is the facilitator of ICPPD’s Diploma in Expressive Arts for Professionals.
She is the co-founder and co-director of Expressive Arts Ireland. Keshet has a fine art background and a degree in Photography and Media, she works in private practice in Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin and facilitates workshops and education programs with Expressive Arts Ireland. Her practice is trauma informed and person-cantered. Registered member of The Irish Association of Creative Art Therapist and The European Federation of Art Therapy.
Ann Sheeran is an accredited Psychotherapist by the International Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). With fifteen years of prior experience, Ann has supported and empowered young people and their families in building resilience and achieving positive outcomes in various social care, youth, and psychotherapeutic settings.
Ann holds several qualifications, including a Masters in Counselling & Psychotherapy (MSc), a BA (Hons) in Applied Social Studies in Social Care, and a higher diploma in Supervision Theory and Practice.
Ann is a trauma informed Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist. Ann has diverse experience working with adolescents, adults, families, and couples in a variety of therapeutic environments. In addition to her private practice, Ann provides therapeutic 1:1 and group sessions in collaboration with other organisations.
For the past ten years, Ann has facilitated educational based programmes and interventions experiences in both a 1:1 and group setting and has worked extensively supporting and mentoring students on placement. Furthermore, Ann has completed additional trainings such as ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training), Motivational Interviewing, LGBTI+ training, and Child Protection training.
Ann takes trauma into consideration in all interventions, working collaboratively with clients to develop suitable approaches. Operating from an integrative approach, Anns interventions are informed by psychotherapeutic frameworks such as Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Systemic, Psychosexual, and Psychodynamic.
Ann considers the client as the expert of their own lives and therapy as a gentle holding space to explore this within the safe confines of the therapeutic relationship.
Ann’s approach is characterized by empathy, non-judgment, unconditional positive regard, respect, ethics and compassion.
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