Meet Our Psychotherapists

 

For most of the last decade Hugh has worked with people suffering from a diverse range of psychological distress and mental health issues, and has experience of working with people at the many different stages of life.

Over that time, he has worked in a number of clinical settings including inpatient and outpatient units of the H.S.E., the Irish Probation Services, community projects, as well as in private practice.

Hugh works with individuals who are experiencing issues that require psychotherapeutic assistance and works with people towards individualised solutions.

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.

Lilli orients the work by the singular needs of each person. She is experienced in working with a wide range of issues relating to interpersonal and relationship difficulties, loss and bereavement, problems of gender and sexuality, and symptoms relating to, for example, personality and eating disorders, trauma, depression and anxiety. 

Lilli has worked in private practice as well as in nonprofit organisations for the last number of years. Prior to her career in the mental health field, she founded and ran an eco-friendly manufacturing business.

Lilli holds an MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from University College Dublin School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Dublin Business School. 

 

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.

Memberships

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. 

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).