My Story

My professional journey began in Galway, where I qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1995. Nursing gave me a strong foundation in caring for people at vulnerable moments in their lives, but even in those early years I sensed that healing was about far more than physical symptoms alone.

In 1996 I moved to New York City, where alongside nursing I trained and worked as a yoga teacher. This was the beginning of my interest in the connection between body, mind, and emotional wellbeing. Returning to Dublin in 1999, I continued to deepen this path through studying Reflexology, followed by a three-year Licentiate programme in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2004.

Over the years I brought these disciplines together in my own health and wellbeing clinic, which I established in 2008. Working closely with people in this setting was deeply formative. While clients often came seeking help for physical ailments, I repeatedly witnessed how stress, grief, anxiety, trauma and emotional overwhelm were often underlying their symptoms. Again and again, I saw the profound relationship between emotional suffering and physical health.

By 2017, after many rewarding years in practice, I recognised that I needed a break from my intense workload to focus more on my family and home life. Closing the clinic became an important turning point for me and an opportunity to pause, reflect and consider the direction I wanted my work to take when I felt ready to return.

Although I first considered training in counselling many years ago, family life required my full attention at that time. When the opportunity arose in 2021, the timing finally felt right, and I began my BA in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy with ICPPD (International College of Personal and Professional Development).

Looking back now, psychotherapy feels like a natural evolution of everything that came before it. My years working within nursing, yoga, body therapies and holistic health continually showed me that people need to be heard and understood as whole human beings. It was this understanding — and a deep respect for the interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit — that ultimately drew me to counselling and psychotherapy.