Nuala’s fee is €90 per session
Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest
Nuala works with adults seeking psychological support during times of adversity, transition or emotional distress. She has been working as a psychotherapist in clinical practice for six years and previously spent fifteen years facilitating personal and professional development as a consultant and coach.
Areas of Interest
Nuala has experience supporting clients with a wide range of concerns, including:
- Self-image and self-worth
- Anxiety and stress
- Depression and low mood
- Childhood trauma and developmental wounding
- Overwhelm and burnout
- Life transitions and change
- Grief and bereavement
- Relationship challenges
- Gender and sexuality
She works affirmatively with LGBTQIA+ individuals and neurodivergent clients.
Counselling and Psychotherapy Approach
Nuala’s approach is rooted in humanistic, person-centred therapy, which recognises the individual’s innate capacity for self-understanding, healing and growth when offered a safe and supportive therapeutic environment. She co-creates a therapeutic relationship with the client that allows them to safely explore challenges and the underlying emotional and psychological processes contributing to their distress.
Nuala values authenticity, non-judgement, warmth, respect, compassion and curiosity in the therapeutic relationship. As an integrative humanistic therapist, she combines person-centred principles with trauma-informed practice drawing from a range of psychological approaches including attachment theory, psychodynamic, existential, gestalt and emotion focused therapy.
This integrative approach allows the therapy to resonate more deeply with different clients and supports meaningful transformation. Clients are supported to create a coherent narrative of their lives, identify and challenge limiting beliefs/patterns, and develop the capacity to tolerate difficult emotions – leading to greater self-awareness, self-acceptance, emotional resilience, resourcefulness and meaningful change in the client’s chosen direction. In practice, this means the work will feel collaborative, gentle and paced to what feels manageable for you.
Psychotherapy Training and Accreditation
Nuala is a fully qualified psychotherapist, with an M.Sc. in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy awarded by University College Cork. She is an accredited member of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapists (IAHIP) and registered with the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP). Nuala is committed to ongoing professional education and personal development and is currently training further in Complex Trauma and Emotion Focused Therapy. She engages in regular clinical supervision to support safe, ethical and reflective practice.
