Angéla’s fee is €75 per session
Psychotherapy Training and Accreditation
Angéla is a dedicated and creative psychotherapist and play therapist, with a humanistic and integrative therapeutic modality. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Psychotherapy, a Postgraduate Diploma in Play Therapy, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Early Years Education, providing a strong foundation for her work with children and adolescents. Angéla is a registered member with the IAPTP.
Her clinical training includes comprehensive certification in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and advanced intervention techniques for self-harm.. These qualifications reinforce her trauma-informed practice and equip her to work sensitively with complex emotional presentations.
Her approach is trauma-informed, developmentally attuned, and deeply relational. She creates safe, expressive spaces where children and adolescents can explore their emotional worlds through talk, play, and creative modalities.
Currently, she is deepening her expertise in expressive psychology through advanced studies of the SSCA (Structured Sequence of Content Analysis). This structured approach enables detailed and clinically relevant interpretation of client artwork within therapeutic practice.
Counselling and Psychotherapy Approach
Angéla works with children (4–12) and adolescents (11–24) using a humanistic and integrative model that supports emotional growth, resilience, and healing through creative and relational methods.
With Adolescents
Sessions are tailored to each developmental stage—early, middle, and late adolescence—and may be structured or open-ended. Angéla creates a safe space for reflective dialogue, creative exploration, and embodied expression, helping young people process emotional challenges and reshape personal narratives with clarity and confidence.
With Children
In the Play Therapy Room, Angéla offers a nurturing, developmentally appropriate environment where children engage in healing through symbolic play, sensory activities, and creative storytelling. Her trauma-informed approach emphasises emotional safety, attunement, and containment, supporting children in moving from survival-driven responses to emotional integration and resilience.
Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest
Angela has over 14 years of experience working with children in community-based therapeutic settings, providing support across emotional, developmental, and relational challenges. Angela offers therapeutic support to families navigating:
- Emotional and behavioural regulation challenges
- Developmental and communication difficulties
- Trauma-related disruptions and attachment concerns
- Academic and school-related stress
- Complex family dynamics and transitions
- Psychological responses to illness or hospitalisation
- Anxiety, low self-esteem, and mood-related issues
- Bullying and identity recovery
- ADHD and neurodivergence
Angéla integrates trauma-informed psychoeducation to involve parents in their child’s therapeutic journey actively. Effective parental involvement includes attending initial sessions to share key developmental and family insights, participating in regular consultations to support therapeutic progress, and practising co-regulation techniques such as emotion naming and calming routines. Parents reinforce consistent boundaries at home, engage in trust-building relational activities, and model emotional awareness and self-regulation. By adopting trauma-informed responses rooted in empathy and curiosity, caregivers help create a stable, healing environment that supports the child’s emotional integration and resilience.
Structured Therapeutic Process
Angéla follows a clear and collaborative framework:
- Initial Parent Intake Session(s) (1–3 sessions, case-dependent)
- Child or Adolescent Therapy Sessions (weekly)
- Parent Consultation/Review Sessions (every six sessions)
- Final Parent Consultation and Closure Session
This structure ensures emotional safety, therapeutic continuity, and active parental involvement in the child’s healing journey.
