B.Ph. Philosophy, Dip Social Studies, MSc Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, EMDR Practitioner, Reality Therapy Certified & M.I. Trainer (Motivational Interviewing).
Main Theoretical Approaches
Peter currently works in private practice and has also been involved in the provision of both drug counselling and drug education for the past twenty-five years. Peter is also a practitioner in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) and brings this Adaptive Information Processing approach to bear in his client work. His clinical background is psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and he is an accredited member and supervisor of both the A.C.I. (Addiction Counsellors of Ireland) and the Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Ireland (A.P.P.I.).
He specializes in several areas from relationship difficulties to stress management, loss & bereavement, addiction disorders (toxic media, gambling & pornography) to trauma PTSD, anxiety & depression, and low self-esteem. The unconscious in mental health and in particular the ways in which the past can get repeated/played out in the present, but also the process of change and how people can shift out of difficult subjective states into more adaptive and healthier functioning.
