PROPRIETOR
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Tony Conway“Cork Counselling was opened with a vision to provide easily accessible counselling services to all those who are in need of it. No waiting lists, a comfortable environment and professional, readily available staff are what sets our Clinic apart from the rest. We are striving to provide the best service in the country, and we welcome your feedback and comments.” |
CLINIC MANAGER
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Mairéad O’ Callaghan
Mairéad joined the team at The Hazelton Clinic in November 2010. As the Clinic Manager, Mairéad is responsible for the smooth running of the Clinic. Client comfort is the utmost importance and Mairéad endeavours to create a professional and welcoming environment for all those who come to the Hazelton Clinic. Additionally Mairéad is tasked with training and supervising of Referral Officers, as well as ensuring the high service and confidentiality standards established in the Clinic. Confidentiality is a priority and Mairéad ensures that all interactions and client information is held in the strictest of confidence. Mairéad is also responsible for promoting the Hazelton Clinic, developing new services, and ensuring all those working in the clinic adhere to strict ethical and professional requirements. |
PSYCHIATRIST
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Dr Bríd Corkery M.B. B.Ch. B.A.O. M.R.C. Psych. D.P.M.General Adult Psychiatrist
Dr Corkery provides psychiatric evaluation, assessment and care. She has been a practicing psychiatrist for over 20 years in both public and private capacity in Cork. Dr Corkery accepts referrals from GPs or self-referrals. |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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Margaret Bednarska M. (Pysch.) Sc., Reg Psychol PsSi., M.A.P.SMargaret is a highly qualified Clinical Psychologist who works with children of all ages, as well as adults. She provides both assessments and therapy. Margaret heads a play therapy programme for children with ADHD. Please click here to view the page dedicated to Margaret’s profile. |
COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST
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Dr Lisa Brinkmann Dipl. Psych., Ph. D.Lisa works with adolescents, adults and couples. She has vast experience in Clinical Psychology and Forensic Psychology, and provides treatment for all emotional and / or psychological problems. Her areas of expertise, among others, are treatment for gender-related issues and sex-related problems and difficulties. Please click here to view the page dedicated to Lisa’s profile. |
ART THERAPIST
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Aoife Ní Labhradha
Art-therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which a client uses art-materials and processes. Life-experiences may be explored in a safe, confidential and therapeutic environment. No artistic skill or experience is necessary and the sessions may include a verbal or non-verbal approach. Aoife adopts a Rogerian, client-centered approach to art-therapy, where developing empathy, trust and unconditional positive regard is crucial towards enabling her clients to experience emotional development and healing. She has worked with children in primary and secondary schools, families affected by addiction and adolescents in treatment and aftercare programs. She also works as an advocate and therapist for the elderly, including stroke and Alzeihmer’s patients in residential care. Aoife offers Art Therapy in the following areas:
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PSYCHOTHERAPISTS/COUNSELLORS
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Geraldine Crowley MIACP
Geraldine is a fully qualified counsellor and humanistic integrative psychotherapist. She has also worked as a foster parent with teenagers for the past ten years and brings this valuable experience to her work. Geraldine adopts a person-centered approach in her work and conveys ease, warmth and genuiness to all her clients as she believes that it is within the therapeutic relationship that true healing is possible. Creating a therapeutic relationship that is based on trust, safety and respect is central to creating a space where any individual client may explore their feelings, core beliefs and behaviour in relation to any problems or difficulties they may be experiencing in their daily lives. This leads to greater self-awareness and the possibility to explore choices and solutions specific to each individual client. Geraldine brings a wealth of experience to all areas of her work with clients and has a special interest in the following areas:
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Katrina Dennehy
Katrina is the newest member of the Panel. She specializes in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), targeting the thoughts and feelings that lead to behaviours. Currently, she is working with clients in areas such as:
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Marianne Draper Dip. Psy.re.ed. FR, MIACC, MIACPMarianne has been with the Clinic since October 2009. She trained as a psychotherapist in France for many years, specialising in children with special needs. She began training in Ireland as a Christian Counsellor. Marianne covers diverse cultural counselling, including:
She is currently working with survivors of child sexual abuse and has extensive experience with people suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. |
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Maria Goodwin
Maria joined the Clinic in September 2010. She has completed a plethora of courses and workshops including the Psychotherapeutic Intervention with Adolescents with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Glasser Reality Therapy Certified. In 2006, she completed her training in Systematic Constellations Work with Prof. Franz Ruppert, Dr. Albrecht Mahr, Dr. Ursula Franke and Vivian Broughton. Maria is currently working as a school Guidance Counsellor. She is also works with the Rape Crisis Centre. Maria specializes in General Counselling, Women’s Issues, Family Systems, Survivors of sexual abuse and Adolescents. |
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Bridget Kenny
Bridget is a fully qualified psychoterapist working with a predominantly person-centered approach. This field of psychotherapy allows the client to gently explore the problematic areas of their lives, which in turn leads to greater self-awareness and understanding of self. This approach enables clients to identify choices and solutions available to him / her. Bridget has extensive experience in working with many issues, whereas her areas of expertise are:
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Brian James McDonagh Dip ISAT
Mr Brian James Mc Donagh has expert extensive knowledge in the area of Addiction, and has also been working with individuals for the past 12 years who suffer from Chronic Addiction Issues in their everyday lives, Brian is currently pursuing his degree in Addiction Studies with the “Addiction Training Institute of Ireland” through the University of Wales 2011, and is an associate member of I.A.A.A.C “Irish Association of Accredited Addiction Counsellors”. Brian’s areas of expertise are:
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Tim Murphy
Tim has been with the Hazelton Clinic since October 2011. He is a good emphatic listener, with over 20 years of face-to-face interaction with people from both hospital and community setting, and from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Tim is multi-skilled in drawing from a diversity of commercial and social experiences. Committed to the therapeutic process, as a means of facilitating awareness in those who wish to develop self-understanding, promote self-healing, and foster psychological well-being. Tim specializes in areas of:
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Margaret O’Brien MIACP
Margaret was recently awarded accreditation with IACP. Margaret has been with the Clinic since its opening. She is involved in participating and organizing ongoing workshops and groups to encourage and facilitate ongoing training and personal development in the Cork area. Margaret specializes in all areas of:
She has a special interest in the area of oncology, having spent some time volunteering in the Arc House (Cork Cancer Support Centre) & CUH. She supports clients as they undergo the physical changes brought about by chemotherapy, radium, etc. Margaret works both with male and female clients. |
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Helen O’ Callaghan MIACP
Helen’s social work experience is invaluable both in keeping her well informed on Child Protection legislation and in the first hand experience gained through ground work. Helen previously worked in Mental Health Services at a Residential Therapeutic setting and is actively involved with child care and welfare acting as a family assessor for a fostering agency. She is passionate about suicide awareness completing her thesis in UCC on ‘Educating Children for Grief as A Way Forward’ based on the Seasons For Growth bereavement program. She is a volunteer with Childline services in Cork and with the HSE Mental Health counselling services in Midleton. Helen’s area of expertise lies in general counselling using a humanistic integrative approach drawing on her vast experience and training. Her focus is on the creation of a warm safe environment where the relationship between client and counsellor is of paramount importance. She feels that it is within this space true healing begins. Much of Helen’s work is influenced by the holistic approach developed during her time spent in Marymount Hospice as a Social Worker hence she is very qualified in areas of grief, loss, separation, family issues, inheritance, relationship/domestic and child/adolescent grief. She has valuable experience in dealing with end of life concerns and issues. |
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Dr. Aidan O’Driscoll MAREBT, ICBT Accr.
Aidan specializes in cognitive behaviour therapy with specific emphasis on Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. His doctoral thesis was on Self-Concept, Gender Identity and Gender Stereotyping. He is a full member of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and has accreditation with the Institute of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He received his clinical Fellowship training in Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at the Albert Ellis Institute, New York. Aidan offers counselling and therapy in the following areas:
Aidan co-facilitates the Anger Management Course together with Paul O’ Neill. |
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Paul O’Neill MIACP
Paul uses the person-centered counselling which focuses on the personal relationship between a counsellor and client. The development of trust and understanding within this counsellor / client relationship encourages self-realisation and enables the client to acknowledge the problems and issues they are disclosing, allowing the client to tap into their own potential helping towards resolving their issues, with gentle encouragement and guidance from the counsellor. Paul specializes in:
Paul also facilitates our Anger Management Course together with Dr Aidan O’ Drisoll, and regularly appears on Cork’s RedFm radio station, speaking on Anger – related issues. |
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Catherine O’Mahoney
Catherine joined the Cork Counselling team in September 2009. She offers both counselling and psychotherapy in a wide range of issues, including:
Catherine works with clients using the Humanistic and Person-Centered approach. She is caring and non-judgemental, providing a safe environment where individuals can explore their feelings, understand their motivations and look within themselves for their own solutions to problems. This creates a greater self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-empowerment to heal emotional difficulties. Catherine is also a pre-marriage course facilitator. She facilitates couples both in a group setting and on an individual counselling basis. Author of article Grief and Loss Presentation |
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Jerome Riordan MIAHIP
Jerome has gained a lot of experience working with young people and adolescents through his work with the student counselling service in the University of Limerick. He is currently the resident Counsellor for YouthReach in Fermoy. He specialises in the areas of anger management, anxiety, depression and panic attacks and has developed six session treatment programmes, using a mindfulness based cognitive behavioural approach which is solution focused. He has a strong belief in the clients ability to work out their own solutions using his facilitation skills. His key focus is to work on building a therapeutic relationship based on trust, with his clients. Other issues he works with are
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RECEPTION & ADMIN
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Emily Kennedy
Emily has been with the Hazelton Clinic since May 2011. She works as a Referral Officer, arranging appointments for the clients, providing information and responses to all telephone, email and written enquiries, assisting all panel members. Emily has also conducted extensive academic research in relation to social and psychological aspects of immigrants in Ireland. |
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Trisha McLellan
Trisha has joined the team of the Hazelton Clinic in December 2011 as a Referral Officer. Her duties include arranging appointments for clients, providing information and responses to all telephone, email and written enquiries, assisting all panel members and day to day reception duties. Trisha is highly experienced in administration and daily reception duties. |
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Greta Skeberdytė
Greta has been involved in administration and management of the Hazelton Clinic since its opening in 2008. She is involved in all aspects of office management, especially in regards to development of new services, advertising and marketing strategies, finance control, setting general administrative guidelines, and providing continuous support to the Clinic Manager in regards to any issues required. She is responsible for the content and daily administration of the Hazelton websites. |