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  • Psychotherapist
    Ciara Heaslip

    Ciara is qualified with an MA (Clinical) in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy and is registered with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). She mainly works with adults at Centric Mental Health.

    Ciara also has over 15 years of experience working as a Social Care Practitioner and Social Care Manager in homeless services. Through this work, Ciara has developed a compassionate, empathetic and non-judgmental approach to her work, and has experience supporting people with diverse backgrounds through traumatic and challenging personal experiences.

    Ciara is strongly guided by the principles of Humanistic Psychotherapy, which focuses on the client’s individuality, choice, responsibility and strengths. She aims to provide a safe, supportive and accepting environment in which to explore the client’s current struggles, increase self-awareness and create change in their lives. Ciara uses a range of approaches, including Psychodynamic, Gestalt and Mindfulness, and has training in Body Psychotherapy and Body-Oriented Coaching.

    She is available for online and in person appointments at Centric Mental Health.

  • Psychotherapist
    Jiyoung Kim

    Jiyoung has a special interest in working with young people and adults to understand and work through persistent difficulties which arise as a result of experiences in childhood and has had a particular focus in the area of trauma for many years.

    She uses a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic approach to explore and begin to make sense of the individual’s existing situation as well as the feelings, thoughts, beliefs, behaviours and memories that are brought about by this situation. Jiyoung provides a space in which one can speak completely freely and begin a rewarding journey of self-discovery and healing.

    She is available for online and in person appointments at Centric Mental Health.

  • Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist
    Emille Boland

    Emille is an Integrative Psychotherapist & Counsellor with 3 decades of clinical practice. As a therapist, she has continuously refined her skills to facilitate individuals to overcome life's difficulties. Emille has a broad base of experience having counselled in ‘not for profit’ organisations, Employee Assistance Programmes, and specialising in the HSE Addiction Services and private practice. She has specialist training and considerable expertise with grief, trauma and substance misuse.

    Emilee’s initial training was in Person Centred Psychotherapy. Her work is eclectic and integrative. She aims to provide relief from psychological and physical pain using the most powerful effective and efficient agents for change.

    Emille draws on a wide range of modalities and practices including Mindfulness and somatic-based interventions; Solution-focused brief therapy, and Choice therapy/ Reality Therapy which is a behavioural approach. Latterly she has incorporated methods that stem from aligning psychology with developments in neuroscience such as the Emotional Freedom Technique and Havening Technique: – a psycho-sensory therapy that has been proven to alter the emotionally traumatised brain.

     She is available for online and in person appointments at Centric Mental Health.