Dr. Aoife Durcan is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with over 10 years experience in the field of psychology. Aoife is a graduate of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at the school of psychology, Trinity College Dublin. Aoife has worked in a variety of services including Psychiatric hospitals, Universities, Private and Public hospitals, Child and adolescent services, Prisons, Educational settings and Primary Care Centres.

Aoife’s work involves the delivery of psychological intervention to adults, teenagers and children experiencing a wide range of difficulties. She has years of experience helping those who are experiencing complex psychological pain across a variety of diagnoses. Aoife works in a strengths based, trauma informed and neuroaffirmative way.

Aoife is involved in the delivery of workshops and groups for adults experiencing deep emotional pain and emotion dysregulation, teaching skills on Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Mindfulness and Interpersonal Effectiveness. She runs groups for children and teenagers using an integrative approach helping them learn how to regulate their emotions and develop self compassion. She is passionate about helping people live their lives in the most fulfilling way possible, and strongly believes in the inner strength and resilience in people.

Aoife works in an integrative way using evidenced-based practice. She tailors her treatment depending on the client’s presentation using approaches such as Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Aoife also has advanced training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). She has a particular interest in working with emotions and completed her Doctoral thesis on Anxiety from an Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) perspective. Her goal is to help people recognise that if they can begin to understand and change the underlying emotions that maintain their worry/anxiety/depression they can combat these overwhelming feelings.