Embrace Therapy

Dr Jason Noone is a qualified music therapist working in Clare and Limerick. He works mostly with children and adults with developmental disabilities, favouring a person-centred approach. He specialises in developing innovative applications of music technology for creative music making in disability contexts. Jason's doctoral research used participatory and rhizomatic methods to investigate these applications in collaboration with service owners at Enable Ireland. Enable Ireland is a non-profit state-funded organisation that provides free services to children and adults with disabilities and their families in Ireland. https://www.enableireland.ie/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonnoonemt/

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For more info on Jason's doctoral research please see the link below

https://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/7570

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Sarah is an IACAT accredited Music Therapist, a Neurologic Music Therapist, a Clinical Supervisor, and founder of Keating Music Therapy. Sarah holds an MA in Music Therapy from the University of Limerick and has experience in a wide variety of settings including intellectual and/or physical disabilities, neurological conditions, mental health (including older adult services), children living with developmental delay, trauma, and neurorehabilitation. Sarah currently provides music therapy and supervision services in the Clare, Tipperary and Limerick regions and provides online therapeutic and supervisory services where appropriate. If you would like to contact Sarah, you can do so in the following ways:

Instagram & Facebook: @keatingmusictherapy

Twitter: @KeatingMTherapy

Website: keatingmusictherapy.iacat.ie

Email: [email protected]

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Keshet is an Expressive Arts Therapist. She offers therapy in person from Artonomy, Dublin, Ireland and online therapy sessions are available through the Covid 19 crisis and beyond. In Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA) clients are supported through engagement with various creative art processes such as visual arts, creative writing and movement. Both life and art require improvisational skills, resilience and the necessary hands on experience of shaping from materials available. When working with creative processes, we gain insight previously unreachable which supports us with life challenges; psychological, emotional, behavioural, trauma, relationships or transitions. Keshet works with both adults and children. Her experience includes working with adults on the autism spectrum and children with life threatening illness. Keshet’s practice is trauma informed and person centred.

Expressive Arts Ireland work in four main areas:

• Therapy

• Education

• Social Change

• Performance and Community Arts

We offer:

• Therapy sessions for individuals and groups.

• Unique M.A. training program aspart of the European graduate School in Switzerland. 

• Dynamic groups for personal development. (Weekly sessions)

• Storytelling and Performance for events in schools, festivals, communities, libraries...

Expressive Arts Therapy is founded on the premise that everyone is capable of making meaningful art and that the process and/or product is always helpful to the client.

Therefore, we embody a low skill, high sensitivity approach. We are not technique oriented, but rather gear all our groups and sessions so that any person, regardless of their artistic talent or previous experience, can enter into the process.

We guide the client into their senses and their sensitivity to create work. We look together observantly at what has been created without critique or judgment. There can often be educational or instructional components to the art making that are naturally imbedded within the 

groups.

We also hold that the client is the expert of their art and therefore will let meaning emerge through a reflective process that assists the client in discovering their own resources. We call this Aesthetic Analysis, which gives careful attention to what is actually there on the page, in the dance or song and allows for the whole experience to touch them. We do not codify images, colors, movements to any external meaning other than the client’s own experience.

We work in the arts modalities such as: music, theatre, writing, visual arts, storytelling, nature, dance/movement and will often incorporate more than one modality into a session. Intermodal refers to our ability to shift into different art making modalities to bring more of the senses into play, to receive more information about an image, and or to facilitate where the images are leading the client. The therapist is knowledgeable in the language of all these art forms and how they interrelate.

We are grounded in theories from philosophy, sociology, education, ecopsycology, and anthropology as well as psychology that acknowledge arts as medicine. In expressive arts we practice that the making and finding what arrives with reflection is a healing act.

Creating art with sensitive awareness is a similar process as creating our lives.

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Kate Brennan is an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist passionate about supporting children, adolescents and their families. She believes in the grounding of the therapeutic relationship as the predominant factor in growth and healing. Kate works with parents and caregivers in using their own relational space at home to enhance this growth.

Kate is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (I.A.C.P)

B.A (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy

M.Sc Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Facebook: @kbchildpsych

Email: [email protected]

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In this podcast episode the host is in the hot seat. This week I answer questions about my profession and share some personal truths of my journey so far. I began this podcast about a year ago and felt it was the right time to introduce myself.

Vicky facilitates courageous journeys with individuals and groups into our darkest nooks and crannies only to shine light on our vulnerabilities and imperfections. Helping those of all ages to recognise and celebrate their unique story and accept their authentic self. Vicky holds that creative expression within a therapeutic relationship can assist in maintaining a good mental health. Art psychotherapy helps to resolve conflicts and problems for a client.

Art therapy is a less threatening approach for those experiencing emotional disturbances or trauma. Vicky maintains a client led approach and holds a non-judgmental space for all her clients.

Thank you so much for listening, Vicky

MA Art Therapy, Crawford College of Art and Design / CIT

Vicky Linnane is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of

Creative Arts Therapies (IACAT) and is a council member of IACAT since 2021.

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Gabi Beuchert’s interest in the healing capacity of art became evident to her while teaching ceramics and crafts to children, teenagers, and adults over 35 years in a variety of settings.

She began her art therapy career in Art Therapy upon the completion of a Post Grad Diploma in 2006 and has since been working with children, young people and adults who have suffered bereavement, stress, anxiety, trauma and interpersonal difficulties. Gabi’s experience also includes facilitating groupwork for adults (ARC house, Alzheimer Society, St John’s Central College and other).

Having completed her MA in Art Therapy in 2012, Gabi became involved in the MA Art Therapy at Crawford College of Art and Design, CIT as a lecturer and member of their Interview Board. She also works in private practice and schools.

https://www.instagram.com/gabibeuchert.familyfun/

https://www.iacat.ie/find-a-therapist?kw=gabi

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Bernadette Moran is a music therapist and founder of Anam Ceol Music Therapy. She is experienced in working with adult disability services and older age and dementia care. Bernadette practices in the Midlands, Ireland and is accredited by the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists.

anamceolmusictherapy.iacat.ie

https://www.facebook.com/anamceolmt

Twitter: @AnamCeol_MT

IG: @anamceolmusictherapy

LinkedIn: anam-ceol-music-therapy

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As an Art Therapist, Leah deeply believes that each piece of art she creates is like a therapy session, giving her an outlet for whatever challenges she is working through.

Creating art can be life-changing, and as a Board-Certified Art Therapist, I get the incredible opportunity to offer online therapy sessions that provide healing and transformation. I truly believe life is your masterpiece. 

Please see Leah's website for further details.

https://leahguzman.com/

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Heather is an HCPC registered dramatherapist based in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. She graduated from Maynooth University in 2018 and works full-time as a dramatherapist in an adult male mental health residential facility. Heather is the Northern Irish Allied Health Professions (AHP) rep for dramatherapy in AHPFNI (Allied Health Professionals Federation Northern Ireland), and also holds the role as the Northern Irish Link Person for BADth. (British Association of Dramatherapists). Heather is extremely passionate about ensuring dramatherapy is widely accessible within the healthcare system and that reaches its full clinical potential. She has a specific interest in mental health and specialises in one-to-one sessions.

In this episode Heather discusses a public webinar at the end of February 2021, that is free to all. You can attend by registering your place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clinically-creative-the-future-role-of-creative-arts-therapies-in-the-hsc-tickets-137785571353?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

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Ed Kuczaj is a retired Art Therapist and Supervisor

He was Chair of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists 2018 - Oct 2020

Head of Arts in Health & Community Practice, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design 2005 - 2017

Course leader PG Dip Art Therapy, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design 2000 - 2005

Art & Dramatherapy Therapy Manager and clinician in UK working within the field of Learning Disabilities 1986 - 2000

BAAT Council member 1995 - 1998

Vice Chair BAAT 1998 - 2000

Artist

Arts Consultancy

IACAT registered member 

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