IAHIP upcoming events

Co. Kerry Regional Network Gathering (17/07/2026)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Date: 17 July 2026
Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Tralee - Shanakill Family Resource Centre, Shanakill Estate, Tralee, Co. Kerry
CPD: 2 hours

Join us for the Co. Kerry Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to catching up and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

Governing Body Meeting (19/07/2026)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Accreditation Committee Meeting (29/08/2026)

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Please note that accreditation applications must be fully submitted, including the completion and approval of supervisor reports, at least two weeks prior to the meeting in order for the application to be passed on to the Accreditation Committee for review.

Re-Accreditation Committee Meeting (03/09/2026)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Please note that re-accreditation applications must be fully submitted, including the completion and approval of supervisor reports, at least one week prior to the meeting in order for the application to be passed on to the Re-Accreditation Committee for review.

Life's Next Chapter Peer Support Group (10/09/2026)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Date: 10 September 2026
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
CPD: 2 hours

Whether you are actively planning your retirement or have already taken the leap, this peer support group offers a valuable opportunity to gain insights, share experiences, and connect with others in similar situations.

Please note the last meeting of 2026 is scheduled for 12 November 2026.

Introduction to EMDR Therapy (12/09/2026)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Workshop Title: Introduction to EMDR Therapy
Date: Saturday,12 September 2026
Time: 9.30am - 1.30pm
Location: Online (Zoom)

Presenter: Gus Murray

CPD: 4 CPD hours

Workshop Cost: Free to IAHIP Members and Associates

Please note that this workshop is being offered to members at no cost, with IAHIP covering workshop expenses through the savings from the transition of the Inside Out Journal to a digital format, in line with our commitment to reinvest these savings into member services and CPD opportunities.

As spaces are limited, we ask that you only register if you fully intend to attend. If you register and your plans change please let us know as soon as possible and at least 72 hours in advance of the workshop so that we can offer the place to another member that is on the waitlist.

Free events often experience high levels of registration but lower attendance, and we have experienced this ourselves. To ensure the best possible experience and fair access for everyone, we kindly ask that you register thoughtfully and only if you are confident that you can attend.

Please note that members who register and do not attend without prior notice may not be eligible to register for future free events.

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

Introduction: EMDR Therapy is the among the most widely disseminated and researched trauma treatment systems in the world with up to 30,000 practitioners in Europe alone. EMDR is promoted as a therapy of choice by the World Health Organization (WHO) for children, adolescents, and adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Aim: This workshop aims to provide participants with an initial introduction to the principles and practices of EMDR Therapy.

Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn:

How traumatic and other disturbing experiences are encoded in the brain and in the body and how they intrude on current functioning.
Why “talk therapy” alone is limited in its capacity to access and resolve these memories.
How EMDR therapy can facilitate the effective processing of traumatic or disturbing life experiences to an adaptive resolution.

Workshop content: The workshop will include

Illustrated presentations of relevant material
Video demonstrations
Discussion and questions

PRESENTER - Gus Murray

Gus Murray is an EMDR Europe Accredited Senior Trainer and Consultant with over 25 years’ experience in the use of EMDR therapy.

He is a highly experienced Counselling and Psychotherapy trainer having been Programme Director and Lead Trainer at the Cork Institute of Technology for over 25 years.

He is an Integrative Psychotherapist, accredited with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has also completed standard and advanced level trainings in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and is an accredited SE practitioner.

Additionally, he has completed standard and advanced level trainings in Internal Family Systems (Ego State) therapy and has extensive experience in the teaching and practice of Ego State therapy.

Gus was the recipient of the Carl Berkeley memorial award (2017) from the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the Counselling and Psychotherapy profession.

Gus is founding president of the EMDR All-Ireland association. He has presented at EMDR conferences and events throughout Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Contact details:
Website - https://www.emdrtraining.ie/
Email - gus@emdrtraining.ie
Mobile - 086 8215551

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 30

Maximum number: 100

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/

Co. Cork Regional Network Gathering (12/09/2026)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Date: 12 September 2026

Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Cork - Douglas Community Centre, Church Road, Douglas,T12 C840
CPD: 2 hours

Join the Co. Cork Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to connecting with local peers and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

Governing Body Meeting (13/09/2026)

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Co. Kerry Regional Network Gathering (18/09/2026)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Date: 18 September 2026
Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Tralee - Shanakill Family Resource Centre, Shanakill Estate, Tralee, Co. Kerry
CPD: 2 hours

Supervising in an Organisational Context (18/09/2026)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Workshop Title: Supervising in an Organisational Context
Date: 18 September 2026
(NEW DATE - Please note this is a rescheduled date as the workshop had to be re-scheduled due to unforeseen circumstance)
Time: 10am - 1pm
Location: Online (Zoom)

Presenter: Maeve Lewis
CPD: 3 CPD hours

Workshop Cost:
€50 for IAHIP Supervisors

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

This short online training course aims to explore the issues that arise when engaging in clinical supervision with psychotherapists who are working in an organisational context. It considers the difference between line management and clinical supervision and the management of dual roles; working within a complex network of relationships and identifying the locus of power; organisational culture and unconscious processes; contracting and ethics.

The course includes information inputs, case studies and small group work.

FACILITATOR - Maeve Lewis

Maeve Lewis is a psychotherapist, supervisor and training consultant working in private practice.

From 2008 -2024 she was CEO of One in Four, an NGO providing psychotherapy and advocacy services to adult survivors of child sexual abuse and to their families together with a sex offender intervention programme. One in Four engages actively in influencing the policy and legislation that impacts the clients.

A psychotherapist specialising in sexual trauma, Maeve has also worked overseas in post conflict situations in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, training local trauma counsellors. She is a registered expert witness in sexual trauma at the International Criminal Court at The Hague and has given evidence before the Court.

In 2024 Maeve received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Limerick for her contribution to society.

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 10

Maximum number: 16

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/

South Connacht Regional Network Gathering (19/09/2026)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Date: 19 September 2026
Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Galway, SCCUL Enterprises Centre, Castlepark Road, Ballybane, Galway H91 RH32
CPD: 2 hours

Join us for the South Connacht Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to catching up and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

North Dublin and Surrounds Regional Gathering (19/09/2026)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Date: 19 September 2026
Time: 11am - 1pm
Location: St. Brigid's Community Centre, Beechpark Lawn, Castleknock, Dublin
CPD: 2 hours

Join us for the North Dublin and Surrounds Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to catching up and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

Presence of Place (26/09/2026)

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Workshop Title: Presence of Place
Date: 26 September 2026
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: La Verna Centre, Ballinderry, Mullingar, Westmeath, N91K680

Facilitator: Jim FitzGibbon
CPD: 5 CPD hours

Workshop Cost:
€70 for IAHIP Members
€100 for General Admission

Refreshments and light lunch are included in the cost

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

I am delighted to share time with you in this workshop to help you explore your lived experience of place. The indoor and outdoor spaces in the lovely La Verna Centre, Mullingar Westmeath N91K680.

As an entry requirement you and each of the other participants will have your own personal support in place, in the form of ongoing psychotherapeutic support.

This workshop is about how we bring with us some experiences of different places and leave some behind and reflection on your learnings about the quality of supports you found or were absent in places and what adaptations you needed to feel you belong in a place.

Using the supportive environment of facilitated group, with a gestalt lens of body oriented inquiry you will have the opportunity to tell your story different ways including art, words, sounds, movements, an ancient ritual, visualisations body sensations.

We will explore ways to experience energy, life, soul, breath, gravity, ground.

The group will offer support to evoke our past/present relationships with life in places, lands, oceans, skies and rivers.

Hopefully, this gives a chance to integrate and redefine your experience of the place where you began your journey, on to the next place and so on.

PRESENTER - Jim FitzGibbon

Jim FitzGibbon has been a psychotherapist since 2007. He was born in Cork City, raised in Co Dublin. In a former life he was a soldier.

He successfully facilitated warring parties to agree to actually stop killing civilians only to be held hostage in no-man's-land, a place where truth is the first casualty. He and his family experienced mental and physical torture of life and death in war in that time and place.

He found a key to recovery is living by the river Shannon and by availing of support in the community there.

Jim loves personal development with Gestalt psychotherapy and supervision.

He welcomes contact with participants in this workshop who are similarly committed and have their supports in place in the form of ongoing personal therapy.

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 15

Maximum number: 20

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/

Supervision Committee Applicants Meeting (02/10/2026)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Play and Creativity in Supervision (03/10/2026)

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Workshop Title: Play and Creativity in Supervision: A workshop to enliven and enrich Supervisory Practice
Date: 3 October 2026
Time: 9:30am - 4.30pm
Location: Online

Presenter: Kate Lucre
CPD: 6 CPD hours

Workshop Cost: Free to IAHIP Supervisors

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

This workshop will explore the supervisory relationship as an attachment relationship with all the complexities that this can bring, as well as space to explore and bring compassion to transference, projection and splitting in the supervisory relationship. This workshop will explore ways to bring creativity, play and action methods as an antidote to the potential for shame in the supervisory process.

We will explore role taking and chairwork within the supervisory process, how to set this up and create safeness for the work to be undertaken.

This day will include theoretical and practical discussions, demonstration of techniques and opportunities to practice. We will also explore the practical aspects of setting up, contracting and offering supervision.

PRESENTER - Dr. Kate Lucre

Dr. Kate Lucre is a Birmingham-based Consultant Psychotherapist and Supervisor accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(BACP). She specialises in working with complex attachment and relational trauma in both groups and individual therapy, particularly with people who may attract a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.

For over 20 years, she has been developing, delivering, and evaluating Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy (CFGP) programmes within the National Health Service(NHS) and beyond. Her approach integrates Action Methods, Group Analysis, and Compassion Focused Therapy.

Dr. Lucre runs workshops across the UK and internationally on group psychotherapy, staff support, and clinical supervision. She has formal training in Action Methods, Group Analysis (as an IGA Approved Group Work Practitioner), Clinical Supervision (IGA Approved Clinical Supervisor), and Compassion Focused Therapy (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Accredited).

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 20

Maximum number: 40

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/

Reading Group - Northwest Regional Network (03/10/2026)

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Material:

Facilitator:

Accreditation Committee Meeting (10/10/2026)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Re-Accreditation Committee Meeting (15/10/2026)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Supervising in an Organisational Context (16/10/2026)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Workshop Title: Supervising in an Organisational Context
Date: Friday, 16 October 2026
Time: 10am - 1pm
Location: Online (Zoom)

Presenter: Maeve Lewis
CPD: 3 CPD hours

Workshop Cost:
€50 for IAHIP Supervisors

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

The course includes information inputs, case studies and small group work.

FACILITATOR - Maeve Lewis

Maeve Lewis is a psychotherapist, supervisor and training consultant working in private practice.

In 2024 Maeve received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Limerick for her contribution to society.

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 10

Maximum number: 16

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/

Sexology in Practice: Working Competently and Confidently with Sexual Health, Dysfunction and Intimacy in the Therapy Room (17/10/2026)

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Workshop Title: Sexology in Practice: Working Competently and Confidently with Sexual Health, Dysfunction and Intimacy in the Therapy Room

Date: 17 October 2026
Time: 10am - 4:45pm
Location: Dublin - The Address Citywest, Old Naas Road, Citywest, D22 W580

Facilitator: Orlagh Reid
CPD: 6 CPD hours

Workshop Cost:
€30 for IAHIP Members
€45 for General Admission

Refreshment and lunch are included in the cost

DETAILS OF WORKSHOP

Sexual health, intimacy concerns and sexual dysfunction are common presenting issues in psychotherapy practice, yet many therapists report limited formal training in sexology and sexual health. In Ireland, cultural influences, religious history and gaps in comprehensive sex education have contributed to silence, shame and uncertainty around discussing sex openly — both for clients and clinicians.

This one-day CPD training aims to equip psychotherapists with the knowledge, language and clinical confidence required to ethically and competently address sexual health and intimacy issues in the therapy room.

The training integrates humanistic and integrative psychotherapy principles with clinical sexology, offering practical tools, reflective practice, and a bio-psycho-social informed framework for working competently with sexology in counselling and psychotherapy.

PRESENTER - Orlagh Reid

Orlagh Reid is a qualified professional Personal & Business Coach, Counselling Psychotherapist, Clinical Sexology Psychotherapist, Addiction and Recovery Counsellor and Fertility Counsellor located in Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland. She is also a health, positive psychology and wellbeing writer.

Her private practice is primarily online providing online therapy and coaching to clients in Ireland and worldwide. She has been an accredited member of the Irish Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists (IACP) since 2015.

you can read more information here.

PARTICIPANTS

Minimum number: 20

Maximum number: 50

This workshop will proceed subject to minimum numbers.

Full terms and conditions are available at www.iahip.org/Events-TermsAndConditions/

Governing Body Meeting (18/10/2026)

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Life's Next Chapter Peer Support Group (12/11/2026)

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Date: 12 November 2026
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
CPD: 2 hours

Co. Cork Regional Network Gathering (14/11/2026)

Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Date: 14 November 2026

Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Cork - Douglas Community Centre, Church Road, Douglas,T12 C840
CPD: 2 hours

Join the Co. Cork Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to connecting with local peers and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

Governing Body Meeting (15/11/2026)

Sun, 15 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

South Connacht Regional Network Gathering (19/11/2026)

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Date: 19 November 2026
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
CPD: 2 hours

Join us for the South Connacht Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to catching up and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

Co. Kerry Regional Network Gathering (20/11/2026)

Fri, 20 Nov 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Date: 20 November 2026
Time: 10am - 12pm
Location: Tralee - Shanakill Family Resource Centre, Shanakill Estate, Tralee, Co. Kerry
CPD: 2 hours

North Dublin and Surrounds Regional Gathering (21/11/2026)

Sat, 21 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Date: 21 November 2026
Time: 11am - 1pm
Location: St. Brigid's Community Centre, Beechpark Lawn, Castleknock, Dublin
CPD: 2 hours

Re-Accreditation Committee Meeting (26/11/2026)

Thu, 26 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Accreditation Committee Meeting (28/11/2026)

Sat, 28 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Supervision Committee Applicants Meeting (04/12/2026)

Fri, 04 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMT

South Dublin and Wicklow Regional Network Gathering (04/12/2026)

Fri, 04 Dec 2026 19:30:00 GMT

Date: 4 December 2026
Time: 7.30pm - 9pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
CPD: 1.5 hours

Join us for the South Dublin and Wicklow Regional Network gathering where we will dedicate time to catching up and having open discussion on any topic or topics that might emerge as we get together.

Governing Body Meeting (13/12/2026)

Sun, 13 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMT