Aideen is a Senior Art Therapist and Cross Professional Supervisor based in Cork City. She has an honours MA in Art Therapy from the Crawford College of Art and Design (CCAD/MTU) and a Professional Diploma in Cross Professional Supervision. She is a fully registered accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT). Aideen also participates in regular clinical supervision in alignment with the IACAT Code of Ethics. She provides supervision for MA trainee Art Therapists, practicing Art Therapists, and professionals from various disciplines. Additionally, she is trained in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI). 

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Aideen is a senior Art Therapist in Specialist Palliative Care services and her particular area of research and interest in art therapy has been working with end of life and Bereavement support for both adults and children in Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand. (See section on art therapy and palliative care). Aideen also works in Cancer support services (ARC house).

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Aideen  delivers lectures and workshops to both health care practitioners, students and teachers. She is a core lecturer on the MA / MSc Art Therapy Professional Training Course and Co-ordinator of the Art Therapy Summer School (CCAD/MTU) 

 

Aideen has over 10 years experience working with children and young people both in Ireland (education, mental health and residential care services) and abroad including South Africa and India. Aideen feels very passionate about the use of art therapy as a way to gently heal  trauma and resolve behavioural problems in children and young people. (see section on About -art therapy). 

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Aideen is client centred and has an integrative approach combining creativity with psychodynamic approaches including  Jungian and humanistic perspectives all held within an art psychotherapy framework. Her approach puts an emphasis on the here and now of relationships and focuses on the Personal development of the client through Meaning Making to facilitate change. Where the need is expressed the existential or transpersonal needs of the client can be explored. Aideen guides clients through the art therapy process which can offer transformative potential to reach places of depth where initially no words may even exist.

 

Aideen values her own experiences of  motherhood as an informative part of her practice.

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 Aideen see's clients  individually (see sections on adults and children/ young people) and with institutional and community based based organisations. (see section on groups).

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