Nessa is a qualified Psychotherapist & Supervisor working in private practice in Dublin City Centre, Dublin 2 (5 minute walk from Stephen's Green), and Clontarf, Dublin 3. She provides adoption Counselling & Psychotherapy for natural mothers, adopted adults, adoptive parents, adopted adolescents, and children. You can find Adoption Counselling Dublin on the Post Adoption Service Directory of the A
doption Authority Ireland. Nessa worked as a volunteer counsellor for Barnardos Post Adoption Service seeing adopted adults for individual counselling sessions. I also assisted the project leader in parent training and support groups for adult adoptees. More recently she completed my MSc dissertation on adoption: Developing a sense of self as an adopted person (Muller, 2013). This year Nessa held training workshops in:
Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) in the context of adoption
Trauma in the Context of Adoption
Nessa's work in primary schools also includes engaging with adoptive and foster families around school and family issues. Overall, I have extensive experience in working with questions & concerns related to both, domestic adoption and inter-country adoption. Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training:
• Post Grad Dipl Clinical Supervision @ TCD
• MSc in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy@TCD
• Clinical Dipl in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy @ IICAPP
• Cert in Systemic Family Psychotherapy @ UCD
Adult Psychotherapy Training:
• MA in Clinical Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (adults)
• Higher Dipl in Counselling and Psychotherapy @ DBS
• Post Grad Dipl in Psychoanalytic Studies
• Cert in Theories of 'Race' and Ethnicity @ TCD
General Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice:
I trained and worked in numerous clinical settings such as: Psychiatric settings (training positions, adult and adolescent psychiatry, inpatient and outpatient services), Barnardos Post Adoption Service with adopted people, The CARI Foundation with survivors of child sexual abuse (C.S.A.), Dublin based schools with young people from deprived socioeconomic areas, Teen-Between, and private practice. Adoption Counselling Dublin
I provide counselling and more in-depth psychotherapy for adopted adults,adopted children & adolescents, natural mothers, and adoptive parents. Clinical Supervision
I am a clinical placement supervisor for students on the MA programme in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Dublin Business School. I am trained in generic supervision and also provide supervision for front-line staff such as social workers, social care workers, teachers, volunteers, family support workers etc. Websites:
www.nessapsychotherapy.com
www.child-psychotherapy.com
www.adoptioncounselling.net
