Niamh OConnell
Description
Bio
Niamh brings her experience as an accredited psychotherapist to her work, offering thoughtful support to clients.
Experience
With 6 years of experience as a therapist, Niamh is a fully accredited psychotherapist with IACP. She works with a wide range of concerns that clients may bring into therapy, including anxiety, panic attacks, depression, suicidal ideation, grief, loss, relationship issues, gender, sexuality, low self-esteem, child sexual abuse, self-harm, and trauma in its many forms.
Niamh has also worked across social care and community settings. For 10 years, she worked mainly with children in state care and their families in residential settings, developing tailored therapeutic plans and supporting staff teams in their delivery. In addition, she has experience working with people seeking asylum, individuals who have been through the penal system, and professionals affected by vicarious trauma through their work.
Education
Niamh qualified in 2012 with an honours degree in Applied Social Studies. She later completed a Post Graduate diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy with Turning Point Institute, earning her degree from Cork University College. Niamh qualified in 2017 and became fully accredited as a psychotherapist with IACP in 2020.
She is currently completing her Masters in Child and Adolescent Integrative Psychotherapy with ICCP. Her additional training includes workshops in suicide prevention, child sexual abuse, the impact of social media, and online and offline bullying. She has also completed further training in therapeutic crisis intervention, adverse trauma and its effects on the individual, and managing challenging behaviour.
Philosophy
Niamh’s therapeutic approach is integrative, drawing on a range of modalities to best support each client. Her work may include psychodynamic, gestalt, psychosynthesis, and CBT, while being grounded primarily in a humanistic approach. She believes the therapist’s role is to sit with the client and explore which approach fits best, always beginning by meeting them where they are. From that safe and supportive space, a therapeutic journey can unfold in a way that is unique to each person.