Booking Summary

Jo's fee is €80 per session

Psychotherapy Training and Accreditation

Jo holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Counselling & Psychotherapy, obtained from Dublin Business School (DBS). She attends training workshops and courses as part of her continuous professional development and learning. This helps to stay informed of current practices and theory. Jo is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP), and abides by their code of ethics. She attends supervision on a regular basis. This ensures an ethical practice and continuous self-growth and awareness as part of her work.

Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Approach

Jo encourages psycho-education to help others gain more understanding and insight into their being. She believes this is step towards autonomy and empowerment within others. This is reflected in the therapeutic space with a person-centered approach, as sessions and therapeutic work are paced according to an individual’s pace and terms. As a humanistic and integrative therapist, Jo believes in learning and experiencing through the therapeutic relationship. Jo brings her real self to session, inviting and encouraging clients to do the same: she believes this allows for authentic and genuine feedback and engagement, enabling learning through the relationship. Jo works with elements of Existential psychotherapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Gestalt, psychodynamics, somatics (body work) and developmental psychology. The use of these approaches varies from person to person, as each is individual and unique in their experience and how they work.

Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest

Jo has worked with issues such as self-esteem, anxiety, depression, abuse, trauma, sexual identity and loss. She has a keen interest in cultural diversity and identity. From personal experience and after gaining experience working with those struggling with cultural identity, she understands how an increasing multicultural and changing society can present issues of the self, belonging and identity. Having practiced aerial acrobatics since 2015 and taught aerial acrobatics since 2018, Jo has experience working with the body and has a strong interest in the emotional and body connection. She believes “our body is our written story” and does not lie. This is an area which she is currently developing through working with the body in trauma, where appropriate, and through learning about body-movement practice.