Passionate. Dedicated. Trusted.
Each psychotherapist is fully qualified and holds at least one masters level training in psychotherapy. Many of the therapists hold additional masters training in related fields.
This means you can have peace of mind in our ability to do what’s best for you.
All counselling and psychotherapy in the clinic is delivered from Psychoanalytically trained therapists. This method aims at the root of suffering and helps people to go beyond it.
This is entirely different than just working on the surface-level presentation of symptoms and can have much longer lasting affects.
It also means we’re equipped to deal with almost any symptom imaginable.
Each therapist has a minimum of five years under their belt working with the public in similar settings. These include in private practice, hospitals, universities and rehabilitation centres.
This means we have a broad range of experience with all sorts of symptoms from anxiety, and depression to relationship issues and psychosis.
Each psychotherapist is accredited with at least two awarding bodies. These include APPI, ICP, and PSI.
Development as a psychoanalyst isn’t like usual therapies. It’s not about ticking off ‘200’ hours. Our psychoanalysts have spent years in their own twice weekly psychoanalysis. Usually surpassing 5+ years in therapy.
Each therapist is also engaged in regular supervision and clinical development at seminars and workshops.
Clinic Director | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Colin is a psychoanalyst and Clinic Director of the Other clinic.
He has worked extensively as a therapist with people from all walks of life over the previous ten years. In that time he has also directed two busy psychotherapy clinics.
Formerly he was Clinic Director of ‘Psychotherapy Dublin’ for just under 6 years. Prior to that he has worked in a variety of environments in both general and specialised fields of treatment. He has worked within Connolly Hospital, St. Brendan’s Hospital, Stewart’s Hospital, Dublin Institute of Technology and two projects addressing drug addiction.
Complimenting his clinical experience is a history of continued professional development. Having completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology he went on to complete a Masters in Addiction Studies and another Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Before training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist Colin also worked as a care assistant at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, over a period of ten years.
Colin is a member of The Association for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP), the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the Psychologists Protection Society (PPS).
Contact:
0871006667
colinmcdonnell@theotherclinic.ie
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Hugh is a fully accredited member of the I.C.P. (Irish Council for Psychotherapy), the main organisation that governs psychotherapy in Ireland, and A.P.P.I. (Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland), a group who regulate the largest group of practicing psychoanalysts in Ireland.
In addition, he contributes to the work of ICLO-NLS and ISLP, psychoanalytic groups with a particular clinical focus, and has been published in The Letter, an Irish psychoanalytic journal.
As part of his continuing psychoanalytic formation, Hugh continues to engage in his own analysis, and attends regular supervision.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Ivana works with people who experience anxiety and panic attacks, stress, depression, loneliness, relationship and family issues, identity and sexual identity crises, addiction, or who suffer from the consequences of abuse, eating disorders, OCD, phobias, low self-esteem… but also those who have everyday life problems, small or large. She has worked in several psychotherapy clinics in Dublin, but has also been involved in ‘lifelong learning’ programmes for emotionally vulnerable adults, organised through Dublin City communities.
Ivana holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Higher Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies. She has also been long-term involved in various forms of continual professional development through APPI and ICP.
It was her love for literature and her Ph.D. research on James Joyce that inspired her further interest into ‘talking therapy’, i.e. the healing effects of our unique lives being spoken about without censorship and listened to without judgement.
Ivana is a full member of The Association for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), accredited as a professional member of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) and insured by the Psychologists Protection Society (PPS).
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Laura is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has extensive international experience working with a wide range of issues. These include high anxiety, depression, bereavement, loss, relationship difficulties, identity crises and many other forms of distress. All of these affect clients in singular ways, and psychotherapy allows a safe and confidential space for that singularity to take form.
Laura has professional experience across several different health care settings: in psychotherapy clinics, in hospitals with psychiatric patients, in community-based projects, in the NGO sector as well as in international humanitarian projects. Laura has a particular focus in the area of cross-cultural psychology, identity crisis, trauma and recovery.
Laura holds three Masters of Art degrees in Psychology (Developmental Psychology, ELTE), Clinical Psychology (Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord) and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (DBS). She also holds a PhD in Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychology (Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord).
Laura is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the Association Internationale d’Ethnopsychoanalyse (AIEP). She is fully accredited by The Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) also. She is fully insured by Brian Mullins Insurance Brokers. Laura works under supervision and engages in her own analysis.
Laura offers therapy in Hungarian and French as well as English.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Ivan has 17 years’ experience working in a variety of therapeutic settings and has been in private practice as a psychotherapist for the past 12 years. Ivan started his career working therapeutically with children and families but for over a decade has now been specialising in the treatment of addiction and anxiety related disorders in adults. This work has included the treatment of eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and both substance and behavioural addiction.
Ivan has Masters degrees in both Psychotherapy and Social work, having completed clinical training programs at both UCD and UCC. The main focus of Ivan’s work today is psychoanalytically oriented, based on the understanding that the various forms of mental and emotional distress commonly experienced by human subjects have their roots in the unconscious mind.
Ivan is a fully accredited, Registered Practitioner with the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of Ireland (APPI) and with the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP).
He has also been fully accredited by the National Social Work Qualification Board of Ireland (NSWQB).
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Kieran has had a deep personal interest in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for many years. He works with clients dealing with a wide range of issues and challenges, including depression, anxiety, phobias, intrusive thoughts, bereavement, and questions relating to major life decisions. He provides a space in which one can speak completely freely, and begin a rewarding journey of self-discovery and healing.
He has had clinical experience in a variety of settings, including HSE mental health services, a centre for people in recovery from addiction, the probation service, and a small number of psychotherapy clinics.
Kieran is also a translator of psychoanalytic texts from French to English and his translation work has appeared in a number of psychoanalytic journals in Ireland.
Kieran is a fully accredited member of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) and the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI).
He participates in the Espace Analytique Ireland group, who are involved in group supervision and discussion with leading analysts from France and the USA.
He continues to take part in personal analysis and individual supervision.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Brigitte has been in private practice as a psychoanalyst and a psychotherapist over the past thirteen years. She works with individuals suffering from short or long-term anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, anger issues, relationship and sexual issues, depression, eating disorders, life and identity crises.
She built up her experience over the past twenty-five years working in a variety of therapeutic settings. In her work in a French Mother and Child Protection Institution for more than a decade she developed valuable skills in the area of child and family emotional, psychological, physical and sexual abuse and a strong understanding of the family settings.
This clinical work, alongside studies and training in clinical psychology and psychopathology led her to develop a deep interest in psychoanalysis, knowledge of the unconscious of the individual, its intergenerational transmission and how its effects can affect and determine someone’s life.
Psychoanalytic training and formation require – among other matters – long ongoing processes which she has been following through different seminars, lectures, group discussions and reading groups over the years in Ireland with psychoanalytic organizations as the Association for Psychoanalysis Psychotherapy Ireland (APPI), Freud Lacan Institute (FLI) , Espace Analytique Ireland (EAI) but also in France with L’École de la Cause Freudienne (ECF), Espace Analytique (EA), L’Association Lacanienne Internationale (ALI).
She is a fully accredited Member of APPI , ICP and EAI.
Brigitte offers therapy in English and French.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Conor is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has experience working with a wide range of issues, but treats every client as a singular subject.
He has worked with people who experience anxiety, panic attacks, depression, bereavement, loss, relationship and identity crises, family issues, eating disorders, mania, phobia, obsession, addiction, and many other forms of emotional distress.
Conor has worked in several psychotherapy clinics in Dublin, as well as in the Mater hospital with psychiatric out-patients. He has also worked in community based projects focused on the area of addiction recovery. Conor has had a particular focus in the area of trauma and addiction for many years.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Social Science (UCD), and a Masters degree in Psychoaanlytic Theory from the University of Kent at Cantebury (UKC). He also holds a higher diploma and a Masters degree from Dublin Business School (DBS) in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Conor is a fully accredited member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and also a member of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP).
He recently completed the “Specific Modality Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy” programme in The School of Psychotherapy at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. COnor is currently a member of an ICLO-NLS reading group and is aregular atendee at talks and lectures pertaining to the work of psychoanalysis.
As part of his ongoing formation in this field he continues to engage in his own analysis and to attend weekly clinical supervision.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist / Psychoanalyst
Raphael is a member of ICP, APPI, NLS, WAP & ICLO.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Vivienne has been working and training in the area of mental health since 2006. She provides therapy for a wide range of mental health issues- from mild & moderate to those with diagnosed psychiatric illness.
As well as working in private practice she has specialised clinical training in a number of mental health facilities including the psychiatric departments of Holles Street national maternity hospital (Ante and Post Natal Psychiatry); St. Vincent’s Hospital Elm Park (general psychiatry), St.Ita’s Portrane (long term patients), and also the National Drug Treatment Centre (Addiction and Dependence).
She holds a Masters Degree in Psychoanalysis with a Clinical Specialisation (2008) and received first class honours for her thesis on Freud’s Rat Man case (which deals with a severe case of obsessive compulsive disorder).
Her practice areas include Depressive disorders, Anxiety, Addiction & Dependence (food, alcohol, gambling), Bereavement & feelings associated with loss, childhood issues and trauma, post traumatic stress, self esteem issues, psychosexual and sexuality issues, relationship & attachment issues, Ante & Post natal psychotherapy, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Vivienne specialises in Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Fully accredited member of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) and the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI). Vivienne adheres to the ethos, practice, and code of ethics of both organisations.
Vivienne offers therapy in English and French.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Melissa is an experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has worked in a number of clinical settings including Trinity Student Counselling Service and private practise. She completed a BSc in Psychology, a H. Dip in Psychotherapy Studies and an MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, followed by two years specific modality training in the School of Psychotherapy in St. Vincent’s University Hospital.
Melissa offers a supportive, confidential environment, working with individuals who are searching for direction or who are struggling with overwhelming issues in their lives. It is through the psychotherapeutic exploration of the individual’s subjective experience and their unconscious that can lead to the freedom of living a fuller life.
As part of her ongoing psychoanalytic formation, Melissa attends her own analysis and clinical supervision. She continues professional development through the attendance of various psychoanalytic workshops and seminars. Melissa is currently a member of an Irish School for Lacanian Psychotherapy (ISLP) psychoanalytic reading group.
Melissa is a fully accredited member of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFPP) and Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP). In addition Melissa is a graduate member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).
Couples Therapist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Mark Twomey is a full member of ICP and APPI.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Olga uses an eclectic and integrative approach, adopting the therapeutic style that best suits the client, providing a safe and confidential therapeutic space, building rapport with a client, facilitating his/her insight and a personal growth.
Olga is experienced in work with a wide variety of clients and issues, such as:
* Relationship difficulties and coping issues
* Anxiety, stress, depression, low mood, low self-esteem, low self-confidence
* Career, job stress and bullying
* Grief, bereavement and loss
* Social and emotional difficulties
* Addiction problems
* Sexual abuse and domestic violence
* Eating disorders
• Feelings of despair and emptiness
• Obsessive compulsive disorders
Olga has developed a special interest in helping immigrants to integrate into foreign society.
In her work she adopts a creative personalized approach, tailored to suit individual needs of each client.
As part of her ethical practice she receives a regular supervision for her therapeutic work and holds professional insurance. Since her initial training Olga has completed numerous Continuous Professional Development hours. She had many hours of therapy herself both to meet training requirements and for her personal growth.
• Member of Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP)
• Member of Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFPP), serving on its Executive
Committee since 2020
Olga offers therapy in English and Russian.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Maeve is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She completed a BA in Psychology, MA in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, followed by two years specific modality training in the School of Psychotherapy in St. Vincent’s University Hospital.
In her work she adopts a singular approach, tailoring each therapy to suit the individual needs of each person. Her experience includes working with those affected by a variety of issues and symptoms. She offers a space which facilitates you to hear the things you may not be aware of but influence your actions, decisions and feelings. This provides an opportunity for new insights, to re-shape how you approach challenges and to identify what you really want to do with the issues or difficulties you face in your life.
Maeve has clinical experience in a variety of settings including the National Maternity Hospital, the Tower Probation Programme, Kilbarrack Coast Community Programme, Naas Child and Family Programme and student counselling services in third level institutions. She also lectures at third level
As part of her ongoing psychoanalytic formation, Maeve attends her own analysis and clinical supervision. She continues professional development through the attendance of various psychoanalytic workshops and seminars.
Maeve is a fully accredited member of the Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP). Maeve adheres to their Code of Ethics and Practice.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Larisa is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has trained in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis and has experience working with a wide variety of symptoms. Psychoanalysis operates on the premise that there exists a knowledge unknown to ourselves, an unconscious knowledge. Clinical practice in the psychoanalytic orientation is preoccupied with the singularity of each person in a case-by-case tradition, not a one solution fits all. Speech provides the means to access what is symptomatic to come to light and allow the conflict and the compromises of the symptom to become analysable.
The way in which she works offers a particular type of listening which provides the opportunity for insight and proposes a space where you can talk about your suffering and presents the opportunity to re-shape it. It can be a truly transformative experience which can help you assess, explore and reflect on your psychological distress in a confidential way.
Psychoanalysis does not only treat symptoms but also thoroughly questions their origins and for this reason consistency and commitment to therapy are essentially important.
Larisa is a graduate of the Specific Modality Training in St. Vincent’s Hospital, the School of Psychotherapy. She is a psychology graduate and holds a Master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from DBS. She is a fully qualified and accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist and works with the code of ethics in conformity with APPI which are under the umbrella of PCI.
Larisa has been working in private practice in City Therapy as a psychoanalytic
psychotherapist for the last three years. Larisa also works in suicide prevention as a Suicide-Risk Assessment Officer and as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in SOSAD Ireland since 2015. Larisa’s clinical experience during the last number of years spans across a large number of settings including the National Maternity Hospital, The Dolphin Homework Club and two rehabilitation treatment centres in the Tower Programme and in the Saol Project.
Larisa attended psychiatric case-conferences in St. Vincent’s Hospital for two years where practitioners from the psychiatric profession present and discuss their clinical cases. She also conducted a weekly, two-year infant observation which provides the opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of human development through direct observation of an infant
during early life.
In her practice Larisa has experience with a wide range of symptoms that include but are not limited to: bereavement and loss, loneliness, panic attacks, self-harm, the consequences of domestic and sexual abuse, eating disorders, stress, anxiety, depression, suicidal-ideation and addiction.
Larisa is a fully accredited member of the Association of Psychoanalysis in Ireland (APPI) and Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP) Larisa works with the code of ethics in conformity with APPI.
Larisa offers therapy in both English and Romanian.
Sarah is a fully accredited member of the Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP). Sarah adheres to their Code of Ethics and Practice.
Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
Ines is a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Adult Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, and Circle of Security Facilitator.
She has worked full-time as a therapist with people from all walks of life over the previous seventeen years. Ines also provides clinical supervision for qualified psychotherapist, psychotherapy trainees, and works as a contract lecturer in the field of psychotherapy.
Over the past seventeen years she has worked as a psychotherapist in different organizational contexts including adult mental health services, child and adolescent mental health services, Barnardos Post Adoption Service, and Dublin based National Schools.
Ines holds a MSc in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, a MA in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (adults), Post Grad. Dipl. in Clinical Supervision, and Higher Dipl. in Humanistic Counselling & Psychotherapy. Complementing her clinical experience is a history of continued professional development including a Cert in Systemic Family Therapy, a Cert in Working with and Facilitating Groups, and others.
Ines is a member of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP), and the Irish Forum for Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFCAPP).
Matthew works psychoanalytically with individuals who are encountering various difficulties. He encourages patients to speak freely about themselves in order that they may ease their suffering and lead more fulfilling lives.
Matthew has previously worked at the Village Counselling Centre where he met with clients presenting with depression, anxiety, sexual difficulties, OCD, addiction, phobia, suicidal thoughts, self harm, questions of gender and identity, as well as bereavement and loss. He also worked at Pieta House with clients encountering deep suffering in the form of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, self harm, as well as clients who themselves had experienced the death of a loved one by suicide.
Having originally read a BA (Hons) degree in English, Matthew went on to train as a humanistic psychotherapist, completing a four year BA (Hons) degree in psychotherapy.
He subsequently undertook his psychoanalytic training, firstly a two year MSc with UCD/St. Vincent’s University Hospital, followed by a two year post masters training at The School of Psychotherapy, St. Vincent’s University Hospital.
He is a cartel member of the Irish School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (ISLP) where he attends seminars and further professional training. He also attends regular analytic supervision and continues his own psychoanalysis.
Matthew is a fully accredited member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP).
Couples Therapist
Ashling is a fully accredited Member of the Irish Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (I.A.C.P.) since 2016.
Jurata is a fully accredited member of the IACP (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), and PSI (Psychological Society of Ireland).
As part of her continuing self-development, Jurata continues to attend regular supervision.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Wanessa Franco is an accomplished psychologist, earning her degree in Psychology from Brazil in 2009 and later obtaining a Master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from University College Dublin (UCD). Throughout her practice, Wanessa has helped clients undergoing transformative processes and facing emotional difficulties stemming from past experiences that continue to affect their lives.
Wanessa firmly believes regular sessions with a qualified psychotherapist or psychoanalyst can be a transformative and proactive step towards overcoming personal difficulties. Drawing from her experience, she has seen firsthand the profound benefits of therapy in addressing a broad range of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, obsessive thinking, relationship problems, sexuality concerns, and even psychotic episodes.
To ensure that her psychoanalytic experience is founded on best practices, Wanessa attends regular seminars at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, courses at Institute ESPE (Brazil), and a study reading group on APPI to discuss psychology and psychoanalysis theory and clinical practice. She considers these endeavours essential to improve her performance and provide better service to her clients.
She remains engaged in personal analysis and receives individual supervision as part of her ongoing professional development.
Wanessa is an Associate Member of The Association for Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI) and a member of The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).
We’re often looking for experienced and passionate Lacanian psychoanalysts to join our team. If this sounds like you, drop us a line with a little bit about yourself and your experiences in the field.
jobs@theotherclinic.ie
Counselling Dublin
Eating Disorders & Body Dysmorphia