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IAHIP Accredited Therapists Dublin

IAHIP accredited therapists Dublin

IAHIP accredited therapists Dublin: IAHIP therapists have a minimum of 7 years training and experience in psychotherapy/counselling.

To be accredited as a therapist with the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP), a five years training will have been undertaken and completed to an approved standard.

https://iahip.org

Also, 600 training therapy hours must be completed, extending the training a minimum of two further years. These hours are conducted under strict supervision, usually by an IAHIP accredited supervisor.

These metrics comply with standards agreed within the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) and the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP).

https://www.europsyche.org

My Work

I have undergone this process and finished my therapy training in 2007. I have nearly 20 years experience as an accredited therapist.

I work as an integrative therapist, meaning I integrate psychodynamic, person-centred and body-oriented psychotherapeutic approaches.

Psychodynamic therapy mainly considers the ‘transference’ between therapist and client. Clients react to the therapist based on their early learnings as a child toward their parents and family. They then ‘transfer’ this into their professional and personal relationships.

We all see how we grew up as ‘the norm’ because that was our experience. Therapy reflects back to a client aspects of that experience that needs to be reconsidered and new lessons to be taken from it.

Person-centred therapy is based on an understanding of the client’s own ability to understand the lessons learned and each person is naturally oriented towards their own growth, given the right conditions. Therapy offers this.

Body-oriented therapy understands the impact of life is carried in the mind but also in the body. In fact, what the mind cannot process, as it is overwhelming, is stored in the body. The body carries unprocessed experience, often in the back and shoulders.

As therapy progresses, the mind digests more of its experience and this in turn takes pressure off the body and frees it up, restoring a balance.

IAHIP Accredited Therapists Dublin

For a wider description of how psychotherapy works, and to see my own availability for psychotherapy, check out:

Thomas Larkin