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Workshop Title: Presence of Place Date: 26 September 2026Time: 10am - 4pmLocation: La Verna Centre, Ballinderry, Mullingar, Westmeath, N91K680
Facilitator: Jim FitzGibbonCPD: 6 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/
Date: Tuesday, 29 September 2026 Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm Location: Online CPD: 2 hours
For this meeting we will be joined by James Parrin.
When Our Connection Feels at Risk?
Attachment, Emotion and the Therapeutic Encounter from an Emotionally Focused Perspective
Both individual and couples therapists are warmly welcome to this talk.
In this talk, we will explore what an Emotionally Focused perspective, developed by Dr Sue Johnson, can offer therapists when distress begins to organise the therapeutic encounter.
Rather than viewing attachment simply through the lens of history, style or category, we will consider it a present-moment relational process that becomes especially visible when safety, connection, belonging or responsiveness feel uncertain. Emotion brings us closer to the lived experience that organises these responses: the fear, hurt, shame, longing, anger or helplessness that can lie beneath familiar patterns of protection.
As therapists, we, too, are relational beings. What happens to us when a client’s distress, withdrawal, anger or need creates pressure for action? When we feel the pull to reassure, explain, solve, move the work forward or relieve suffering? What relational strategies do we reach for when connection feels uncertain, and how might our responses become part of the process unfolding in the room?
Using attachment, emotion and attunement as guiding principles, we will consider how protective patterns develop, how they shape our relationships with self and others, and how they can show up within the therapeutic relationship itself.
At the heart of the talk is a simple invitation: attachment is not only something we understand about our clients. It is something we participate in. By paying closer attention to what happens when connection feels at risk, we may become better able to remain alongside experience rather than moving too quickly to change it.
James Parrin, MIAHIP
James Parrin is an accredited psychotherapist and supervisor with IAHIP, and an ICEEFT-certified Emotionally Focused Therapy trainer, supervisor and therapist. He founded the EFT Ireland Community in 2012 and has been involved in developing and supporting the growth of EFT in Ireland for many years.
Before specialising in Emotionally Focused Therapy, James trained extensively in Process-Oriented Psychotherapy and is a Process Work Diplomate. Alongside EFT, this background continues to inform his interest in relational process, experiential work, therapist participation, and the moment-to-moment ways change emerges within the therapeutic relationship.
Based in County Wicklow, James works with individuals and couples and provides recognised EFT training, supervision and learning groups for therapists. He has trained and supported EFT practitioners in Ireland and internationally for many years.
At the centre of his work is an ongoing curiosity about relationships: how we create sufficient safety for exploration, how therapists participate in and respond to what is unfolding between us, and how attention to attachment, emotion and relational process can support meaningful change.
Workshop Title: Play and Creativity in Supervision: A workshop to enliven and enrich Supervisory Practice Date: 3 October 2026Time: 9:30am - 4.30pm Location: Online
Presenter: Kate LucreCPD: 6 CPD hours
Workshop Cost: Free to IAHIP Supervisors
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.
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).
Minimum number: 20
Maximum number: 40
Material: The Explosive Child by Ross W Greene
Facilitator: Terence McKeon
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.
Date: 10 October 2026 Time: 10am - 4pm Location: Enniscoe House, Crossmolina, Co Mayo F26 EA34
Theme for the day: Engaging the Wisdom of the Body CPD: 6 hours
Further information/details will be sent closer to the time of the gathering.
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.
Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026Time: 7pm - 8.30pmLocation: Online (Zoom)
Thinking about IAHIP Accreditation?
Join us for an informative session on IAHIP membership and the accreditation process. Learn about the key criteria for accreditation and gain insights into what's involved.
In this session we will cover the key criteria of Bye Law 2A and Bye Law 2C.
This event is open to anyone interested in IAHIP Accreditation - whether you are just exploring, ready to take the next step or a supervisor keen to stay up to date with the latest accreditation criteria.
Workshop Title: Supervising in an Organisational ContextDate: Friday, 16 October 2026Time: 10am - 1pmLocation: Online (Zoom)
Presenter: Maeve LewisCPD: 3 CPD hours
Workshop Cost: €50 for IAHIP Supervisors
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.
Minimum number: 10
Maximum number: 16
Workshop Title: Sexology in Practice: Working Competently and Confidently with Sexual Health, Dysfunction and Intimacy in the Therapy Room Date: 17 October 2026Time: 10am - 4:45pmLocation: Dublin - The Address Citywest, Old Naas Road, Citywest, D22 W580
Facilitator: Orlagh ReidCPD: 6 CPD hours
Workshop Cost: €30 for IAHIP Members€45 for General Admission
Refreshment and lunch are included in the cost.
Please note that this workshop is being offered at a reduced cost, with IAHIP covering the majority of the 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.
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.
Maximum number: 50
Workshop Title: When Psychedelic Experiences Enter the Therapy Room Date: 24 October 2026Time: 10am - 4pm Location: Dublin - The Spencer Hotel, Excise Walk, IFSC, Dublin 1, D01 X4C9
Facilitator: Kathryn LeddenCPD: 5 CPD hours
Workshop Cost: €50 for IAHIP Members€190 for General Admission
Please note that this workshop is being offered at a reduced cost to IAHIP members, with IAHIP covering the majority of the 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.
Why this Workshop:
As public awareness and research into psychedelics grows and psychedelic-assisted therapies continue to evolve, psychotherapists are increasingly likely to encounter clients who bring questions, experiences or curiosity about psychedelics into therapy.
This CPD offering provides an evidence-informed introduction to the contemporary psychedelic landscape but does not train participants to deliver psychedelic-assisted therapy, nor does it advocate for or discourage psychedelic use. Instead, it explores how therapists can engage in ethical, non-directive and clinically grounded conversations when these topics arise in therapy.
Drawing on perspectives from psychedelic research, psychiatry and harm reduction, the programme is designed to complement the relational expertise that humanistic and integrative psychotherapists already bring to their work.
Educational Approach:
Given the rapidly evolving nature of psychedelic research and policy, the educational content is designed to present the current evidence base while acknowledging areas of ongoing debate and uncertainty.
This programme builds on previous invited teaching on psychedelics and psychotherapy and has been thoughtfully developed to meet the interests and learning needs of humanistic and integrative psychotherapists.
Evidence-informed teaching is combined with reflective discussion, experiential learning and case-based exploration. The CPD offering is designed to encourage reflection on clinical practice, therapeutic stance and professional judgement, recognising that confidence develops through reflection, dialogue and experience, as well as knowledge.
FACILITATOR - Kathryn Ledden
Kathryn (Kat) Ledden is a medical doctor undertaking Basic Specialist Training in Psychiatry in Dublin, with academic and clinical interests spanning psychedelic research, harm reduction, mental health, and the social and cultural dimensions of healing.
Kat is a member of the Psychedelic Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, having worked for two years on psychedelic assisted therapy clinical trials. Kat is also a Founding Director and Volunteer Trainer at PsyCare Ireland Welfare and Harm Reduction CLG. Kat holds a medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, a BSc in Psychology from Dublin City University, and will shortly commence a Master's in Medical Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
Prior to studying medicine, Kat worked in homeless and social care services, supporting people experiencing mental health difficulties and substance use issues. This experience continues to inform a compassionate, person-centred and harm reduction approach to clinical practice and education.
Kat's teaching draws together perspectives from psychiatry, psychedelic research and harm reduction, with an emphasis on supporting thoughtful, ethical and clinically grounded conversations across disciplines.
Minimum number: 25
Date: 12 November 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.
Date: 12 November 2026
Time: 7pm - 8.30pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
Are you a qualified and experienced Clinician looking to apply for IAHIP Accreditation?
Join us for an informative session on the new IAHIP accreditation criteria for Experienced Clinicians which is outlined in Bye Law 2D.
In this session we will cover the key criteria of Bye Law 2D for Experience Clinicians only. If you are not an experienced clinician and wish to apply for IAHIP accreditation you can find details of the accreditation pathways at www.iahip.org/Accreditation. Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries.
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.
Material:
Facilitator:
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.
Date: 20 November 2026 Time: 10am - 12pm Location: Tralee - Shanakill Family Resource Centre, Shanakill Estate, Tralee, Co. Kerry CPD: 2 hours
Workshop Title: Introduction to EMDR TherapyDate: Saturday, 21 November 2026Time: 9.30am - 1.30pmLocation: Online (Zoom)
Presenter: Gus Murray CPD: 4 CPD hours
Workshop Cost: Free to IAHIP Members and Associates
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.
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:
Workshop content: The workshop will include
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
Minimum number: 30
Maximum number: 100
Date: 21 November 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.
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.
Workshop Title: Sexology in Practice: Working Competently and Confidently with Sexual Health, Dysfunction and Intimacy in the Therapy Room Date: 16 January 2027Time: 10am - 4:45pmLocation: Portlaoise - Midlands Park Hotel, Jessop Street, Portlaoise, Co. Laois, R32 KV20
Workshop Cost: €80 for IAHIP Members€190 for General Admission
Refreshment and lunch are included in the cost
You can read more information here.
Minimum number: 60
Maximum number: 80
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