Join the Team
The Phoenix Practice is a newly established service and we are currently in a period of growth. Are you an experienced and fully accredited practitioner? Would you like to talk about joining us? We’d love to hear from you.
The Phoenix Practice was established by Dr Niamh De Rossa and Helena Texier in 2021.
CLINICAL DIRECTORS
Dr Niamh De Rossa
BSc Psych, D.Clin Psych, PG Dip Clin Supervision, PG Dip Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Filial Therapist, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy levels 1 & 2.
Dr De Rossa is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years experience working with children, young people, and their families, as well as adults with mental health, behavioural, emotional or relationship concerns in community and children’s hospital settings and latterly in independent practice. Niamh has lectured in a number of Universities and published articles in peer reviewed professional journals. She has particular expertise in attachment, anxiety disorders, depression, and trauma.
Services include Clinical Psychology evaluation, Consultation; individual therapy; parent sessions for parenting challenges; parent-child relationship work and individual and small group supervision.
Helena Texier
M.Sc. psychotherapy, Registered Practitioner APPI, Reg. ICP, Clin. Fellow NPSA
Helena Texier is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and psychoanalyst working in independent practice for more than 25 years. Over that time, she has worked with individuals, couples, and older adolescents, experiencing life difficulties from across a very broad range, including those with long-standing mental health issues.
She was involved in teaching at TCD, St Vincent’s University Hospital UCD, on clinical training programmes, to Masters’ level. Helena is currently working towards a professional doctorate in psychotherapy research. She has been invited to speak at professional congresses internationally, was editor of a psychoanalytic journal, has had articles published in English, French and German and contributed to the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. She has an interest in neurodiversity.
Services include Psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis; Consultation; Working with individuals, couples, and older adolescents; short-term or long-term work as appropriate to the presenting problem; Supportive psychotherapy for autistic adults of all ages; Supervision for mental health professionals from a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic perspective.
CLINICIANS
Aileen Garrihy
Bsc(Hons) Occupational Therapy; Psychotherapist IRRAPT (UK) Cognitive Analytic
Psychotherapy; YTT200 Yoga Teacher Training.
Aileen Garrihy is a Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist and Occupational Therapist with over 20 years experience in mental health. Her areas of expertise are eating disorders and anxiety disorders. As a relational psychotherapist, and influenced by recent studies on the impact of trauma on body and mind, she has undertaken yoga teacher training to integrate nervous system regulation into her work. Her focus is on the interplay between internalised (learnt) ways of being in the world, and the impact this has had in the past, (and continues to have in the present), on the nervous system. Supporting clients to understand their experiences of relational trauma and how they currently manage the impact, eg eating disorder, she works to support clients to regulate their nervous systems in more compassionate ways.
She was director of training for the Irish Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy from 2012 – 2021.
Services include Psychotherapy assessment and intervention for adults (18years+) for a broad range of mental health and relational difficulties., with particular expertise with anxiety disorders and eating disorders.
Larry Maguire
MSc. Work & Org Psych., BA (hons) Psych., M.Ps.S.I., M.A.C., R.Q.T.U.
Larry Maguire is a psychologist specialising in the behaviour and performance of people at work. He is a peer-reviewed author and lecturer in psychology at Dublin Business School, with a business background extending to over 20 years in Ireland. He is registered with the British Psychological Society RQTU to administer and analyse psychometric assessments in occupational settings.
Services include motivation, leadership, culture, performance, careers, stress and well-being at work. Larry is best positioned to assist people and organisations who seek to develop themselves, their management teams, or their staff in both personal and professional contexts.
Catherine O’Kelly
Dr Catherine O’Kelly is a Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years experience working in the areas of mental health, disabilities and brain injury in the HSE, private services and independent practice. Catherine has worked in acute hospital settings, community teams and mental health rehabilitation services. She has published articles in peer reviewed professional journals and has an interest in advocacy and rights-based, person-centred mental healthcare. She has particular expertise in adult autism assessment and adult mental health using a compassion focused therapy informed approach.
Services include adult autism assessments and individual supervision.
Carol Sheridan
BA, Applied Social Studies,
Postgraduate Diploma Play Therapy,
MA, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, IAHIP,
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, ISE
Carol Sheridan is a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, with over 10 years clinical experience.
Carol is trained in Child and Adolescent psychotherapy and works with children and adolescents in a developmentally and age appropriate way, using various approaches including play, creative mediums and attachment informed therapy. Carol also tailors therapeutic support for parents and carers, working systemically to support the development of children. Carol provides consultation on emotional and behavioural difficulties and has extensive experience with the symptoms of trauma, attachment/relationship and developmental issues.
Carol has a special interest in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and provides this intervention to both adults and adolescents. Somatic Experiencing is a comprehensive form of healing that recognises the integral relationship between body and mind in moving towards greater resiliency and well-being. SE understands that both stress and trauma is a natural part of life that affects us all. Trauma, chronic stress and overwhelming experiences can contribute to nervous system dysregulation. Sometimes we can be left feeling shut down, disconnected, anxious, emotionally charged, coping with physical illness/pain or other lingering problems. SE works to increase capacity to regulate the nervous system and release stuck patterns. It supports a movement towards living in the present in a healthy balanced way.
To find out more about SE, please visit https://traumahealing.org/
Services include: Somatic Experiencing, Individual psychotherapy, parent/child relationship work, therapeutic parental support, consultation
Dr Deirdre Walsh
BA Psych, MSc Clinical Child Psych, D.CounsPsych
YTT200 Yoga Teacher Training
Dr Deirdre Walsh is a Counselling Psychologist with over 10 years clinical experience working with chil-dren, young people and their parents, as well as adults with a broad range of mental health and relational concerns in a variety of hospital, community settings and in independent practice. Deirdre works with children and young people to help overcome emotional and behavioural difficulties. She offers supportive parent sessions to help with parental challenges and the parent-child relationship. She has particular ex-pertise in anxiety disorders, trauma, attachment and relationship issues. Deirdre has a strong interest in the mind body connection which led her to yoga teacher training where she studied and integrated the areas of Self-Compassion and Loving Kindness both into her own life, and in her work with adult clients, and she believes that these are fundamentals along the healing path.
Services include individual therapy, consultation, parent-child relationship work, parent sessions for pa-rental challenges