I find it a privilege to work with those who have experienced trauma or are caught in depression. I am passionate about opening access to life changing therapeutic processes. I delivered Dialectical Behavioural Therapy to clients caught in a storm of intense emotion, as part of a specialised mental health team for many years. My experience shows me that there is a way out of suffering.
I work with people who feel restricted and caught in depression, who know something is missing from their lives and are seeking a connection to themselves and thereby joy and fulfilment.
To experience low self-esteem, self-consciousness, shyness, and self-rejection is to suffer. The root of low self-esteem is having feelings that you do not like, do not understand and having the belief that something is wrong with you.
I work to support growth through development of self -understanding. This process makes space for the arising of compassion and thereby decreasing critical self-judgements. I work to support connection to natural wisdom in the body.
There is always hope. We can be reconciled with and befriend the parts of ourselves that we have separated from. When we feel alive, we feel connected, and when we feel connected, we feel alive.
Gerardine’s training and influences
• Transforming the Experienced Based Brain (TEB), with Dr. Steven Terrell (works with complex and developmental trauma)
• Neuro Affective Relational Model Principles (NARM) with Dr. Laurence Heller
• Creative therapies as a way of finding healing.
• Mindful Inquiry and Student of the Diamond Approach for15 years
• Somatic, Relational & Attachment Focused Approaches
• The Hearing Voices Approach provides a framework for working with individuals who hear voices.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) a cognitive skill based approach
All of the above provide me with knowledge, understanding and tools to help people find their way out of suffering, to live lives connected to joy.
Contact me with any questions or to schedule a session. PHONE:, 00 353 87 6103331
