Embrace Therapy: Recent Episodes
Vicky Linnane
In this podcast you will hear from qualified therapists and mental health care professionals themselves, as they share stories, insight and research on how embracing therapy is positive for ones mental health.
The Embrace Therapy Podcast is hosted by Vicky Linnane MA MIACAT, a practicing Art Therapist based in Ireland. Vicky believes that engaging in therapeutic creativity can enrich your life. To get in touch or for more info please visit https://enricharttherapy.com
On todays episode we speak with Heidi Morrison, Co-Founder of Soearth Projects & Art Psychotherapist; Rory Adams Senior Music Therapist and Clinical Supervisor based in Kildare and Wicklow; Marguerite Collins also a Music Therapist based in Dublin and Kildare and lastly Tracey Costello Dramatherapist and Social Care Worker based in Dublin and Wicklow.
Soearth Projects integrate the use of the arts and nature for mental health and wellness. We are passionate about nature, creativity and its relationship with psychological well being. Soearth Projects believe in valuing the environment and investing in the reciprocal relationship we have with our natural surroundings. We also believe in our inherent ability to be creative and its capacity to nourish and provide emotional and psychological health.
Soearth Projects provide a mental health wellbeing service through the use of the arts and eco activity. Our Creative Arts Therapy service offers individual and group Art Psychotherapy and Music Therapy. This is available for Adults, Children and Adolescents.
Soearth Projects also facilitates arts and ecotherapy wellbeing experiences. Offering a range of internal self care programmes and rental options for community and business groups.
Please do get in touch to let us know what you thought of todays episode via social media @EnrichArtTherapy and email contact@enricharttherapy.com
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Katie Fitzpatrick is a Music Therapist based in Limerick, Ireland. She is the Irish representative for the European Music Therapy Confederation. She has been a music therapist under the name Melody Tree since 2018. Katie's main field of work is chronic pain and mental health. She worked at the University of Limerick as a clinical tutor and PhD researcher and as we hear in the podcast she has just started her new job as the Senior Music Therapist with the pain team at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital. Katie also mentions her time working in Community Arts as a Facilitato in Reds Centre of Music Limerick
Here are some links on Katie's work in the area of Chronic pain. A paper in Music and Medicine
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Eithne McAdam is an experienced therapist in the area of service development, adult mental health, addiction and homelessness. She is also a qualified clinical supervisor and an accredited member of IACAT. Eithne McAdam is a practicing Art Therapist and one of the senior members of the Creative Therapy Service within First Fortnight.First Fortnight, provide the highest standard of free Creative Therapies to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness, affected by mental ill health or dual diagnosis. Founded in 2009, First Fortnight staged its first two-week arts festival in 2012.First Fortnight is a charity that challenges mental health prejudice through arts and cultural action within Ireland.
First Fortnight Child and Adolescent Creative Therapy Service9 Berkeley Street,Dublin 7 cactus@firstfortnight.ieFirst Fortnight Centre for CreativeHaven House,Morning Star Ave,Dublin 7cat@firstfortnight.ieFYI First Fortnight's Therapeutic Services Manager, Patricia Bourke D'Souza who Eithne mentioned is an accredited Counsellor, Psychotherapist (MIACP, MIAHIP) and Supervisor (MIACP) and accredited Somatic Trauma Therapist, Trainer and Supervisor.
This years festival will be taking place from 6th - 15th January
FirstFortnight23 The very popular Therapy Sessions will be coming to Dublin, Wexford and Belfast this January.
The renowned poet Stephen James Smith is back to MC and curate the programme. Therapy Sessions is a staple of the First Fortnight Festival, and promises an evening of music, spoken word and positivity. Stephen will be joined by a variety of wonderful artists in a night that is not to be missed!
“Therapy Sessions is a powerful, moving, reciprocal dynamic of connectivity. A very special bond that cannot be emulated online and I am very excited for us all to be able to witness once again, the special moments this event gifts us all.”
Stephen James Smith
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Monica is a qualified and fully registered Dramatherapist from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Heartwork Studio is her very own wellness service offering workshops to encourage overall wellness, using the arts- visual art, drama, movement, writing, and music. Her workshop topics cover things like relaxation, connection, identity, self esteem, healthy relationships, self care, boundaries, resiliency. Participants will explore these topics (and more!) through artistic and creative activities, with the guidance of a facilitator.
She specializes in using theatre and roleplay alongside other expressive arts to achieve therapeutic and educational goals. Her past roles include engaging the arts in hospitals, nonprofit organizations, theatres, schools, and most recently on a feature film set.
Robert Greene's Procession is, a film, created with six men (Dan Laurine, Joe Eldred, Mike Foreman, Tom Viviano, Ed Gavagan, and Michael Sandridge) who were abused by Catholic priests and clergy. It is a collaborative exercise in trauma recovery.
Dramatherapist Monica Phinney defines the role of Dramatherapy in this context as “the intentional use of dramatic theater and role-play for a therapeutic goal” and knew that this process wasn't going to be easy on the survivors who would go onto "produce their own short films reflecting on their abuse, with the goal of reclaiming those memories and offering protection to their inner children" writes reviewer Lovia for the Hollywood Reporter
This November, 26th Soearth Projects will host a screening of Procession and live panel discussion with Robert Greene, Mike Foreman and Monica Phinney followed by a performance (debriefing) by Full Circle Playback Theatre Company. You can log in from anywhere in the world, tickets for the panel discussion and performance can be purchased here.
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Monica provides sliding-scale, expressive arts therapy for individuals, couples, and families of all configurations. Sessions are accessible to all regardless of income or insurance. She works collaboratively and often use creative interventions to process unresolved emotions and experiences.
Monica takes a family systems lens, and respects each person's autonomy while also recognizing the dynamic ways family systems, society, and culture shape us. Currently Monica works MY VOICE MUSIC (MVM) as the Outreach Program Coordinator and Program Leader. I run many of the “Music-In-Therapy” (MIT) groups in residential treatment centers, where I work with youth who are recovering from trauma.
Monica uses music as a therapeutic tool to transform difficult emotions and trauma into a positive, empowering experience. Monica is a life-long musician, songwriter, performer, and producer. She's a project oriented person who likes to collaborate and build on creative ideas with others. You can usually find her in the outdoors spending time with her dog and partner, cooking delicious meals, and laughing loudly with family and friends.
More on Forest Veil:
Forest Veil is the moniker of Portland based producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter, Monica Metzler. Forest Veil makes dynamic music that maps the emotional terrain of humanity and its place in the cosmos. Forest Veil’s music showcases poise and masterful musicality with a distinct psych-folk sound.
Ritual Light (EP) is Metzler’s eight release and fourth with Spirit House Records, the label she co-founded with musician Johanna Warren in 2016. Forest Veil's music has been synched in Coach ads, movies, and TV shows such as NBC’s The Black List. An avid guitarist for over 20 years, Metzler also plays clarinet, piano, synths, and percussion. She currently plays drums in the all femme band, The Pool Boys.
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Dr. Pat Bracken is a Consultant Psychiatrist who recently retired from his position as Clinical Director of the West Cork Mental Health Service. He has worked in Ireland, Africa and New Zealand. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy and was Professor of Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. He is also one of the co-founders of the critical psychiatry network.
In this episode Dr. Pat Bracken and I discuss Mens Mental Health and the use of Creative Arts Therapies in mens mental health services. I also mention toxic masculinity and the work IDLES are doing as an example of the use of creativity to combat stereotypes and binary thinking.
To learn more about Dr. Pat Bracken you can tune into his interview on The Blindboy Podcast or you can read some of post-psychiatry papers here http://www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/docs/patphilresponse.pdf
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Evelyn Horan is an Irish Music therapist and practicioner in guided Imagery and Music. She has a wealth of experience from her years as a national school teacher and her time in Peru. In 1995, she went to New York to train as a Music Therapist.
In this episode we hear about her experiences from 1998 – 2002, where she worked as a Music Therapist and Spiritual Co-Ordinator in a predominantly Jewish hospital in the Bronx, New York. She shares stories from her work with survivors of 9/11 when the Twin Towers came down in New York.
Evelyn is so grateful for the generosity of Sisters of Mercy who helped her gain her training in Music Therapy. She is now an honorary member of IACAT and she feels her life continues to be enriched by all these experiences.
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Rowena Keaveny is a Registered Level 2 Professional Member Therapist with the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online ACTO Rowena is also a professionally qualified art therapist based in Offaly, Ireland. She hold a First Class Honours MA in Art Therapy from Crawford College of Art & Design. She uses mixed media in heart therapy room and online. She is also the coeditor of IACAT's online journal Polyphony.We chat about the various tools, applications and devices she incorporates into her practice.Rowena mentions Dr. Natalie Carlton in our chat as well as Gretchen M. Miller Plus here are two book recommended by Rowena, to go alongside this podcast episode Digital Art Therapy and The Handbook of Art Therapy and Digital Technology
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Sarah West, MPA, BA(Hons), DKATI - Sarah is a graduate from The Kutenai Art Therapy Institute.
Environmental Arts Therapy is Sarah's specialization - a modality akin to earth therapy and nature therapy. She is a professional member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association as well as a climate-aware therapist with the Climate Psychology Alliance.
Environmental arts therapy is an intentionally structured and accompanied process that uses creative methods in relationship with the earth to support our wellbeing. It can involve many different ways of creating, such as movement, writing, and making art. This can be done spontaneously, or we’ll offer suggestions for what could be created.
In this process, we connect with our full selves - body, mind, spirit. We set our intentions, we form a question we’d like an answer to. We walk, we move, we watch for the land “speaking back.” We go towards what we’re drawn to. We create with what’s on hand, however feels comfortable. We notice what plants or animals or natural synchronicities might arise. We see what emerges and what it might say to us. We feel the effect of working with traditional, recycled or natural art materials, and in that way, come into a greater sense of knowing the land that surrounds us.
This creative process can result in what is called earth art or eco artwork. In practice, nature therapy, forest therapy, earth therapy, and ecological art therapy are all closely related.
You can find out more about Sarah on her website https://www.earthenvision.com
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On the podcast this week is Suzie Cahn
She is an Art Therapist with a focus on nature and ecology. Suzie was chair of IACAT in 2008.
Suzie is the Social Enterprise Officer and Community Educator in the Higher Education team at An Cosán.
She has a deep commitment to community led social change and climate justice through the creation of local livelihoods. Suzie co-founded a social enterprise called Carraig Dulra and has served as informal advisor and formal member for a diverse range of social enterprises and charities. ShuttleKnit Traveller GIY Waterford, VOICE Ireland CREATE (formerly CAFÉ) and WWOOF Ireland. Suzie Cahn runs a Garden and Permaculture Design business and is also a Director of Carraig Dulra teaching farm.
Wicklow native, Liz Gleeson joins me on the podcast this week. She is a Dramatherapist (Masters qualified) since 2004 and is a full professional member of IACAT. She also has qualifications in MSc Bereavement Studies and MA in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Liz’s approach is well grounded in theory & practice.
In 2019, Liz set-up the podcast ‘Shapes Of Grief’ and has 80 wonderful episodes to date. Here are just some of the topics discussed: Children’s grief, lgbtq+ grief, widowhood, cancer and "Dying Well".
Liz is a trailblazer in the field of Grief and Loss Education. She is currently a PhD student in the field of Grief Education. She offers workshops and trainings for a variety of organisations and is a Module Coordinator for the MSc Bereavement Studies at the Irish Hospice Foundation & RCSI.
In 2015, Liz qualified as an Open Floor Movement Therapist, an approach that she uses to inform her clinical practice and she has a particular interest in a somatic approach to supporting the grieving process. Liz has completed Core Skills training in Mindful Self Compassion with Dr. Chris Germer.
She offers one-to-one therapeutic support for those going through grief of any kind from her private practice in Greystones (and online) and also facilitates a number of Bereavement Groups. Liz is one of a few therapists providing Complicated Grief Therapy in Europe and offers this via skype to people in Ireland and abroad. Liz is curator of the Shapes Of Grief Global Grief Education Programme and speaks at conferences and summits internationally about all aspects of Grief.
Podcast notes:
Contact Liz Gleeson directly via email: liz@shapesofgrief.com
The Pyramid Liz mentions shorturl.at/dkuK0
http://luisne.ie/bereavement-support/
Liz mentioned a Japanese symbol for ikigai https://images.app.goo.gl/msdYqFXFpStVpbeT8
George Bonanno: Measuring human resilience - YouTube https://youtu.be/5cJfi6NcPAw
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47716739_The_Dual_Process_Model_of_Coping_with_Bereavement_A_Decade_on
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Psychologist Jennifer Ryan.
Contact details jryanconsult@gmail.com
Jennifer obtained her BSc in Psychology in 2003 and graduated from the University of Leicester with a MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology in 2006, with a special interest research in the role of gender and moral development on aggression in adolescence. She also has a Higher Diploma in Educational Guidance and Counselling from DCU and has completed her training in Conflict Resolution with Northside Mediation. She is a part-time lecturer in Psychology in Trinity College Dublin and lectures in UCD on the Graduate Diploma in Child Mental Health. She is currently studying MSc Systemic Psychotherapy in the Clanwilliam Institute Dublin
She is a busy bee and this was such a treat to get to catch up.
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On the podcast this week is Art Therapist, Amelia Hutchison. A graduate of Kutenai Art Therapy Institute and a member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association. She works with adults, supporting them through Post Traumatic Growth, Grief, Human Trafficking and Life Transitions. Amelia sees couples and individuals online via zoom.
She is also a podcaster, her podcast show is Art Therapy I.R.L. It explores why creativity is a crucial tool for mental health in the wake of collective grief and trauma, and how art therapists can address issues of social justice. You should go and check it out, the link is just below :
https://open.spotify.com/show/2swKStAO0p2zVmQwi26pU5?si=9595714e696b47ba
Bill Ahessy is a senior music therapist working with older adults/dementia care and with children & adolescents with additional needs. He sat on the executive council of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists for two years. He also runs a supervision practice for music therapists. Is a lecturer, clinical placement supervisor and researcher.
Bill has been involved in researching since he graduated. He worked for one year as a lead clinical researcher on a randomised control trial, funded by the Meath Foundation, which was presented at the European Congress of Music Therapy and published in the Journal of Music and Medicine. He was also awarded a research grant by the Irish Hospice Foundation exploring music therapy in palliative care. His publications include peer-reviewed articles in International and Irish Journals and contributioms to three books on music therapy, the lastest a chapter on LGBTQIA+ ageing for the the Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy.
Here are links to some recent publications of Bill's :
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352939691_Reminiscence-Focused_Music_Therapy_to_Promote_Positive_Mood_and_Engagement_and_Shared_Interaction_for_People_Living_With_Dementia
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353347162_Music_Therapy_What_Psychologists_Need_to_Know
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02646196211029342
http://polyphony.iacat.me/features/creative-arts-therapists-in-ireland-2020-practice-professional-engagement-and-employment-key-findings
An article mentioned in the podcast by Bill :
http://polyphony.iacat.me/words/employment-after-graduation-from-the-ma-music-therapy-a-survey-of-graduates-from-the-university-of-limerick
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Joanne O' Dwyer is an art psychotherapist living and working in the midlands. Joanne moves around to different schools and services providing both individual and group art therapy to people of all ages and abilities. Joanne works both in the community and in private practice. Please visit her website for more information.
https://www.arttherapywithjoanne.ie
You can find out more about where she works from her https://www.thedancingsoul.ie/practitioner/joanne-odwyer/
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Diagnosed with bipolar more than 12 years ago at the age of 21, Sineád discusses the importance of language when discussing mental health. Sineád also shares some reflections on her experiences with stigma in Irish health care settings.
We learn more about how life is for her now, a year on since our first interview in September 2020. How life differs as a Mum of 16 month old twins and living through the pandemic!
Katie O’Donoghue , author and illustrator of The Little Squirrel Who Worried, received their BA in Fine Art & Design and a first class MA in Art Psychotherapy from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. Katie is a fully accredited Art psychotherapist, with experience working with children and adults in schools, charities and children’s mental health services .
In 2017 She was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions scholarship and is currently in the final stages of a PhD in Heritage and Psychological Wellbeing, at University College London.
When not writing, painting or practicing as a therapist, Katie enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband, Gerald, followed by curling up on the couch with cats Buzz and Bobby, a good book in hand or baking up a storm in the kitchen.
In this episode I chat with members of the editorial board of Polyphony ( the online platform for Irish Creative Arts Therapists)
The POLYPHONY project aims to provide an online space for creative arts therapists in Ireland and beyond to share key insights and innovations, as part of enhancing the profession and practice of the arts therapies.
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Jessica Harris - Music therapist - https://www.mindmusic.ie
My career began as a musician studying at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and I have performed throughout Ireland and the U.K. with orchestras and ensembles such as the National Symphony and National Concert Orchestras of Ireland. My love for connecting with and supporting people of all ages and abilities then led me to music therapy and in 2010 I completed my Masters in Music Therapy at UL. Following graduation I began work with Music Therapy Ireland and have since continued to work privately. I have provided music therapy to clients across a wide range of populations and ages including within Autism Initiatives Ireland, Bloomfield Health Services, the Central Remedial Clinic, Lois Bridges, Ballymun Music Project (in conjunction with DIT) and have established the music therapy department within the Royal Irish Academy of Music. As such I am adept at blending and working within a multi-disciplinary team and have introduced and developed music therapy services as being of integral value towards wellbeing. My approach is person-centred and psychodynamic, supporting and meeting HIQUA standards. I am passionate and committed to providing opportunities for change, hope and joy.
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Noémie is a DMP based in South Donegal, originally from France. She trained in Dance and Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) in Goldsmiths University London, UK.
Noémie wants to work with people to help them find a sense of themselves and peace and grounding through their therapeutic relationship and the use of movement.
You might not think that DMP is for you, but it is! Dance Movement Psychotherapy is one of the Creative Arts Therapies where movement and dance are used to explore and make sense of our thoughts and feelings. DMP is based on the premise that body and mind are intrinsically linked and each will affect the other. Giving ourself the time to explore our relationship to our bodies with the help of a DMP can help us integrate our physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual self.
Presently, Noémie is the council secretary of IACAT you can get in touch with her though her website, instagram, facebook @movingsouls.embodiedtherapy
email secretary@iacat.ie
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Dr Jason Noone is a qualified music therapist working in Clare and Limerick. He works mostly with children and adults with developmental disabilities, favouring a person-centred approach. He specialises in developing innovative applications of music technology for creative music making in disability contexts. Jason's doctoral research used participatory and rhizomatic methods to investigate these applications in collaboration with service owners at Enable Ireland. Enable Ireland is a non-profit state-funded organisation that provides free services to children and adults with disabilities and their families in Ireland. https://www.enableireland.ie/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonnoonemt/
jasonnoone.mt@gmail.com
For more info on Jason's doctoral research please see the link below
https://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/7570
Sarah is an IACAT accredited Music Therapist, a Neurologic Music Therapist, a Clinical Supervisor, and founder of Keating Music Therapy. Sarah holds an MA in Music Therapy from the University of Limerick and has experience in a wide variety of settings including intellectual and/or physical disabilities, neurological conditions, mental health (including older adult services), children living with developmental delay, trauma, and neurorehabilitation. Sarah currently provides music therapy and supervision services in the Clare, Tipperary and Limerick regions and provides online therapeutic and supervisory services where appropriate. If you would like to contact Sarah, you can do so in the following ways:
Instagram & Facebook: @keatingmusictherapy
Twitter: @KeatingMTherapy
Website: keatingmusictherapy.iacat.ie
Email: keatingmusictherapy@gmail.com
Keshet is an Expressive Arts Therapist. She offers therapy in person from Artonomy, Dublin, Ireland and online therapy sessions are available through the Covid 19 crisis and beyond. In Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA) clients are supported through engagement with various creative art processes such as visual arts, creative writing and movement. Both life and art require improvisational skills, resilience and the necessary hands on experience of shaping from materials available. When working with creative processes, we gain insight previously unreachable which supports us with life challenges; psychological, emotional, behavioural, trauma, relationships or transitions. Keshet works with both adults and children. Her experience includes working with adults on the autism spectrum and children with life threatening illness. Keshet’s practice is trauma informed and person centred.
Expressive Arts Ireland work in four main areas:
• Therapy
• Education
• Social Change
• Performance and Community Arts
We offer:
• Therapy sessions for individuals and groups.
• Unique M.A. training program aspart of the European graduate School in Switzerland.
• Dynamic groups for personal development. (Weekly sessions)
• Storytelling and Performance for events in schools, festivals, communities, libraries...
Expressive Arts Therapy is founded on the premise that everyone is capable of making meaningful art and that the process and/or product is always helpful to the client.
Therefore, we embody a low skill, high sensitivity approach. We are not technique oriented, but rather gear all our groups and sessions so that any person, regardless of their artistic talent or previous experience, can enter into the process.
We guide the client into their senses and their sensitivity to create work. We look together observantly at what has been created without critique or judgment. There can often be educational or instructional components to the art making that are naturally imbedded within the
groups.
We also hold that the client is the expert of their art and therefore will let meaning emerge through a reflective process that assists the client in discovering their own resources. We call this Aesthetic Analysis, which gives careful attention to what is actually there on the page, in the dance or song and allows for the whole experience to touch them. We do not codify images, colors, movements to any external meaning other than the client’s own experience.
We work in the arts modalities such as: music, theatre, writing, visual arts, storytelling, nature, dance/movement and will often incorporate more than one modality into a session. Intermodal refers to our ability to shift into different art making modalities to bring more of the senses into play, to receive more information about an image, and or to facilitate where the images are leading the client. The therapist is knowledgeable in the language of all these art forms and how they interrelate.
We are grounded in theories from philosophy, sociology, education, ecopsycology, and anthropology as well as psychology that acknowledge arts as medicine. In expressive arts we practice that the making and finding what arrives with reflection is a healing act.
Creating art with sensitive awareness is a similar process as creating our lives.
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Kate Brennan is an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist passionate about supporting children, adolescents and their families. She believes in the grounding of the therapeutic relationship as the predominant factor in growth and healing. Kate works with parents and caregivers in using their own relational space at home to enhance this growth.
Kate is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (I.A.C.P)
B.A (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy
M.Sc Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Facebook: @kbchildpsych
Email: kbadolescentpsych@gmail.com
In this podcast episode the host is in the hot seat. This week I answer questions about my profession and share some personal truths of my journey so far. I began this podcast about a year ago and felt it was the right time to introduce myself.
Vicky facilitates courageous journeys with individuals and groups into our darkest nooks and crannies only to shine light on our vulnerabilities and imperfections. Helping those of all ages to recognise and celebrate their unique story and accept their authentic self. Vicky holds that creative expression within a therapeutic relationship can assist in maintaining a good mental health. Art psychotherapy helps to resolve conflicts and problems for a client.
Art therapy is a less threatening approach for those experiencing emotional disturbances or trauma. Vicky maintains a client led approach and holds a non-judgmental space for all her clients.
Thank you so much for listening, Vicky
MA Art Therapy, Crawford College of Art and Design / CIT
Vicky Linnane is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of
Creative Arts Therapies (IACAT) and is a council member of IACAT since 2021.
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Gabi Beuchert’s interest in the healing capacity of art became evident to her while teaching ceramics and crafts to children, teenagers, and adults over 35 years in a variety of settings.
She began her art therapy career in Art Therapy upon the completion of a Post Grad Diploma in 2006 and has since been working with children, young people and adults who have suffered bereavement, stress, anxiety, trauma and interpersonal difficulties. Gabi’s experience also includes facilitating groupwork for adults (ARC house, Alzheimer Society, St John’s Central College and other).
Having completed her MA in Art Therapy in 2012, Gabi became involved in the MA Art Therapy at Crawford College of Art and Design, CIT as a lecturer and member of their Interview Board. She also works in private practice and schools.
https://www.instagram.com/gabibeuchert.familyfun/
https://www.iacat.ie/find-a-therapist?kw=gabi
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Bernadette Moran is a music therapist and founder of Anam Ceol Music Therapy. She is experienced in working with adult disability services and older age and dementia care. Bernadette practices in the Midlands, Ireland and is accredited by the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists.
anamceolmusictherapy.iacat.ie
https://www.facebook.com/anamceolmt
Twitter: @AnamCeol_MT
IG: @anamceolmusictherapy
LinkedIn: anam-ceol-music-therapy
As an Art Therapist, Leah deeply believes that each piece of art she creates is like a therapy session, giving her an outlet for whatever challenges she is working through.
Creating art can be life-changing, and as a Board-Certified Art Therapist, I get the incredible opportunity to offer online therapy sessions that provide healing and transformation. I truly believe life is your masterpiece.
Please see Leah's website for further details.
https://leahguzman.com/
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Heather is an HCPC registered dramatherapist based in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. She graduated from Maynooth University in 2018 and works full-time as a dramatherapist in an adult male mental health residential facility. Heather is the Northern Irish Allied Health Professions (AHP) rep for dramatherapy in AHPFNI (Allied Health Professionals Federation Northern Ireland), and also holds the role as the Northern Irish Link Person for BADth. (British Association of Dramatherapists). Heather is extremely passionate about ensuring dramatherapy is widely accessible within the healthcare system and that reaches its full clinical potential. She has a specific interest in mental health and specialises in one-to-one sessions.
In this episode Heather discusses a public webinar at the end of February 2021, that is free to all. You can attend by registering your place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clinically-creative-the-future-role-of-creative-arts-therapies-in-the-hsc-tickets-137785571353?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
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Ed Kuczaj is a retired Art Therapist and Supervisor
He was Chair of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists 2018 - Oct 2020
Head of Arts in Health & Community Practice, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design 2005 - 2017
Course leader PG Dip Art Therapy, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design 2000 - 2005
Art & Dramatherapy Therapy Manager and clinician in UK working within the field of Learning Disabilities 1986 - 2000
BAAT Council member 1995 - 1998
Vice Chair BAAT 1998 - 2000
Artist
Arts Consultancy
IACAT registered member
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Marja Wilmer takes us on a journey from Finland to England and finally to Ireland. She talks about the beginning of her training as an Occupational Therapist, she mentions "the father of Art Therapy in Britain" Edward Adamson and how the psychiatrist and the art therapist often worked together.
Marja's work stretches across five decades. In this episode we can see just how much art therapy grew alongside Marja, as she progressed in her own career. She is a great story teller as I am sure you'll agree.
We both had some connectivity problems during this interview, though it is easy to follow just with some minor discrepancies. Please enjoy the extra content at the end of the podcast.
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Kerry Walker is a passionate Forest Bathing Guide, Forest Therapy Practitioner, Forest School Leader and an Art Therapist.
She currently lives in the South-West of Ireland, where she experiences the daily language and connection of natures landscape. She feels strongly that this connection with nature and each other is vital at this moment in time.
Her appreciation for nature and art has brought her on creative journey's around the world. She facilitated creative arts programmes focusing on using art and nature as a tool for integration, connection and awareness.
Kerry has been guiding Forest Therapy walks for five years with a focus on integrating her art therapy experience within her walks. She is the founder of The Nature Hub, a platform to support children and adults to explore, connect and restore with nature.
She is also a trainer and mentor with the Forest Therapy Institute.
She has training in Eco-Psychology, Challenging Behaviour in the Outdoors, Therapeutic Play skills and is certified in Therapeutic skills for children in the outdoors.
www. thenaturehub.ie
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Anna is a qualified Dramatherapist living in North Kildare, with a Masters in Dramatherapy from Maynooth University (2016). Anna is an accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT).
Anna offers affordable Dramatherapy sessions for adults and children in a safe and confidential space.
Anna has a high proficiency in Irish Sign Language (ISL) and so can offer Dramatherapy to members of the Deaf Community.
Specialisation is in bereavement and the grief process in children.
Has experience working with those living with Intellectual disabilities.
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Mary O'Doherty worked for many years as a company director with TikityBoo, Childrens Theatre Co. and as drama facilitator and drama teacher. It was her work with the Irish Red Cross in 1992 with child refugees from Sarajevo that inspired her to train as a dramatherapist. After completing her MA in Dramatherapy at NUI Maynooth (2009), she worked with children with the Dyspraxia Association and as a child therapist with Doras Buí. She has been working for the HSE in an acute mental health service since 2010. She lectures with the Hdip in Psychotherapy Studies at UCD school of medicine.
Mary would like to see mental health being talked about in schools. Her mission is to facilitate children to learn resilience skills to enable them to communicate difficult feelings, to manage stress and to know when to seek support.
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Siobhán Nelligan is the owner of Síolta Music Therapy. She is an IACAT-accredited Music Therapist specialising with children and adolescents. She is experienced in the areas of child and adolescent mental health, childhood trauma, grief and loss, and developmental disability.
Siobhán uses a wide range of creative media in her therapeuitc practice and is currently pursuing further training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist with a specialism in play therapy. She is passionate about the therapeutic benefits of the arts, trauma informed practice, and the use of music to support attuned interactions between caregivers and their children.
Music therapy is an evidence-based health profession that involves the intentional use of music to support quality of life, health, and well-being. Music therapists work with clients to achieve social, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and communicative outcomes. Music therapy offers a safe space for self-expression and personal growth within the context of an attuned therapeutic relationship.
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This week I interview Heidi Morrison, a registered Art Psychotherapist with the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapies (IACAT). She currently is Secretary for IACAT too.
She is an exceptionally gifted visual artist but her latest venture is developing an emerging creative and eco-wellness retreat initiative called Soearth Projects. When we catch up with Heidi she informs us that soearth projects is getting close to being ready to open its doors.
Heidi currently provides Art Psychotherapy for adults in her private practice in Naas, Co.Kildare. She also provides Art Psychotherapy individual and groups sessions in the Adult Mental Health services (HSE), Naas/Kildare area.
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Tracey has used the arts as a vehicle for change, working with children and adults at-risk within community and educational settings. She has a BA Fine Art, BA (hons) Sculpture and an MA Dramatherapy.
Now as a dramatherapist, Tracey runs her own private practice based in and around Dublin's North East Inner City. She also works as a social care worker in a mainstream residential setting with adolescents.
Contact traceycostellocat@gmail.com
Sineád Keating is a voice for those living with Bipolar disorder. She is a new Mum of twin girls, a wife and a mental health advocate.
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness and is considered to be a mood disorder. Bipolar disorder can be difficult to diagnose because of the intrinsic changeability of the symptoms which accompany it.
Sineád courageously sheds a light on what it's like to be the client in therapy. She discusses her personal journey so far and shares her insight on living with bipolar disorder.
Bipolar Awareness Day is celebrated each year on 30th March. This is often given a platform by media and public supports such as Aware and Shine.
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We are fluid beings - life is a journey chequered by challenge and change. Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Kum Nye relaxation offer powerful tools to support this journey. Fran also brings her experience as a physiotherapist and a child psychotherapist to her Dance Movement Practice.
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True Self, True Art is an Art Therapy service based in Co. Laois, which helps people to connect to, express and understand themselves and their world.
Aisling holds an Honours Masters in Art Therapy from CIT. She also has a B.Ed in Primary Teaching and is currently pursuing a Masters in Applied Spirituality with WIT.
Aisling is a council member for the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapies.
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Lou van Laake is a fully qualified Dramatherapist. She is company lead for full circle playback theatre.
http://fullcircleplaybacktheatre.com
Playback Theatre is an improvisational theatrical method created through a unique collaboration between performers and audience in which an audience member tells a story and the actors re-enact the story though various Playback ‘Forms’. The actor’s response is a creative, spontaneous, physical improvisation within a framework of structured ritual.
Playback Theatre creates a space in which each person’s uniqueness is honoured and affirmed while at the same time builds and strengthens our connections to each other as a community of people.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TrulyLou
Keith is an integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist with a strong background in professional theatre. His creative and enthusiastic style is based out of a person centered approach, using numerous supportive models and approaches interchangeably in dynamic response to the Client’s needs as they arise within session and throughout the therapy journey.
Keith operates from his private practice “Abbeywell” from the beautiful town of Graiguenamanagh on the Kilkenny/Carlow Border. He regularly travels nationwide to provide emotional debriefing sessions for frontline healthcare professionals. Keith also has an established video counselling service allowing clients can avail of the service from their own home.
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Finóla Lawlor is a Transformational Coach, based in Kildare. She works with people looking for support and direction as they grow both personally and professionally, creating a space for them to look inward in order to grow outwards.
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Todays guest is Nichola Mooney a Qualified Dramatherapist and Drama Facilitator, who offers Creative Drama and Drama therapy sessions in a one to one setting or group setting. Nichola is a member of IACAT. You can find her on YouTube and Facebook.
We discuss what support looked like for Nichola during the pandemic and how Covid-19 has not stopped her private practice. She has learned how to adapt and develop new skills. *This interview was recorded over zoom and has the odd minor audio defect,I hope you enjoy our chat.