Liz’s fee is €85 per session.
Psychotherapy Training and Accreditation
Liz holds an MSc in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from Turning Point Institute and she is an accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). She follows the ethical guidelines set out by the IACP. Liz also attends weekly supervision and attends ongoing continual professional development courses.
Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Approach
Liz believes in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship. She believes that building and maintaining safety and collaboration within the therapeutic relationship can lead to positive outcomes for her clients. She utilises an integrative approach which includes person-centred, humanistic, and yoga and body-focused psychotherapy. Liz works in a compassionate, warm and non-judgmental way so that her clients can explore their issues in a safe environment. Through the therapeutic process, Liz enables her clients to get to know themselves on a deeper level so that they can work through their issues and gain a greater sense of self-awareness. It is through this learning that the client can grow and create skills and resources to reach their greatest potential.
Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest
Liz has a range of experience working with clients with differing issues, such as grief, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, and self-esteem/body image. Her most recent work has been in providing psychotherapy for 3rd-level pupils.
Liz has a keen interest in neurodiversity, and how neurodivergent people can support and embrace themselves confidently. There has been a shift in recent times away from the medical model of neurodivergence as an individual having a deficit to a more positive one of neurodivergent people possessing unique talents and skills and how to incorporate these into their lives. There is more emphasis on the neurodivergent perspective as well with more neurodivergent voices being heard in the media.
Liz also has a particular interest in working with clients who are experiencing work-related burnout. She wrote her master’s thesis on burnout and how psychotherapists can help their clients heal from burnout. Individuals with burnout can experience a disconnect from themselves as well as their work. When Liz works with clients with burnout much of it is allowing the clients to connect with themselves, firstly on a basic level and then on a deeper level. She has found that this approach can help her clients rediscover the joy in their lives and are better able to deal with work-related burnout as a result. She has also found that when clients heal from burnout they are better able to notice it if it happens to them again and can recover quickly from it.
Liz has practised yoga regularly for 17 years and she completed a 250-hour yoga teacher training course in 2017. She has been teaching yoga twice a week in her studio since completing the teacher training course. She believes in the healing power of the mind and body connection i.e. how the mind can influence the body and the nervous system. If someone is feeling anxious or stressed they can notice it in their body and gain the skills to slow the mind and bring the body and nervous system into balance. Liz has found integrating yoga into her psychotherapy practice particularly useful in her work with clients who have anxiety and stress-related issues.
