Education

• Doctoral Researcher of Psychotherapy – QQI level 10
• First class honours Masters Degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling – QQI level 9     
• Honours Degree in Ophthalmic Optometry – QQI level 8
• Diploma in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy – QQI level 7
• Diploma in Nutrition – awarded distinction
• Diploma in Iridology – awarded distinction
• Certificate in Philosophy

 
Competencies  

• Recipient of IACP Research Excellence Award 2021
  
• IACP research bursary award 2020- professional endorsement of doctoral research 
• Doctoral Research Project- A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Enquiry into Psychological Blind Spots and Epiphanic Experiences 
• Masters Research Dissertation- Emotional Response to Breast Cancer
• Masters Elective in Mindful Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
• Integrative therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychosynthesis and Existential therapy
• Health and Nutrition

 
Workshops Completed

• Body Psychotherapy
• Meditation and Mindfulness
• Expressive Arts and the Chakras
• Working with Suicide ideation and Self–harm
• Sexual Abuse Healing
• Sexuality and Self
• Ayurveda