At the Threshold

I founded The Threshold Practice as a space for reflection, depth, and care — for the moments when life asks us to change, and for those who hold space for others to do the same.

My work is relational, trauma-informed, and eco-based.
Sessions take place online or outdoors, often walking in Phoenix Park, because therapy at its best isn’t confined to four walls.
The natural world has its own quiet way of helping us slow down, listen, and begin again.

People come here in times of both dramatic change and quiet unease, when something has shifted or when something is not quite wrong but not quite right.
It might be the end of a relationship, a loss, a change in direction, or simply a sense that the way you’ve been living no longer fits.
And often, beneath it all, there’s shame — the quiet, private feeling that something about you is not enough, too much, or out of place.

Here, we work with that feeling gently and directly.
Because shame isn’t a flaw to be erased. It’s a signal that something vital is waiting to be met with compassion.

Whether through therapy, supervision, or reflective practice, the process is guided by presence: two people meeting truthfully, held by time and by care.
The work happens together, not alone but side by side.

Roots and Evolution

Before founding The Threshold Practice, I created Rainbow Minds, one of Ireland’s first and still one of its leading therapy services for LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent communities.
That work continues to thrive and remains a part of who I am and how I practice.

Over time, the work widened.
It became clear that the same questions of identity, belonging, shame, and transition live in all of us.

The Threshold Practice grew from that understanding: that we all cross thresholds, and we all need spaces that meet us with honesty, curiosity, and care.

While much of my current work explores masculinity, shame, and identity, I continue to work with adults and adolescents from all walks of life, including those navigating LGBTQ+ experiences, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence.

These are not just specialist areas. They are part of the human landscape I have come to understand most deeply through years of practice, teaching, and lived experience.

The REPT Model

Relational • Emotional • Processing • Transitional

The REPT model is my way of understanding psychological movement.
It brings together years of work across psychotherapy, supervision, and teaching, drawing from relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed, somatic, narrative, and ecological perspectives.

Each stage reflects how change unfolds:

• Relational — how we are with ourselves, others, and the world.

• Emotional — how we feel and stay with what arises, including shame and the emotions we often avoid.

• Processing — how we make meaning from experience and integrate what we learn.

• Transitional — how we carry that meaning forward into the next phase of life.

We can get caught in any of these stages, what I call the choke point, where reflection stops and repetition begins.
The work of therapy or supervision is to notice where that happens and to restore movement.

Sitting with what’s hard is not passive. It’s active, supported work, relational and real, and it’s held.
The work happens together, with care and attention.
I do it because it works.

Teaching and Supervision

I am the founder and programme director of Ireland’s only IACP-approved year-long Diploma in GSRD (Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity) Therapy, which supports therapists to work with depth, humility, and skill. In 2026 with a colleauge we will launch a professional certificate in working with ADHD across the lifespan for therapists and allied professions.

I speak internationally on neurodivergence, gender, and intersectionality, and regularly teach on men’s work, shame, and identity — areas that hold deep personal and professional meaning for me.

In supervision, I work with counsellors, psychotherapists, and allied professionals in Ireland and abroad.
My approach is reflective, creative, and grounded, a steady space to explore how the work shapes us, and how we can meet it with integrity and care.

Background and Memberships

I hold a Diploma and Honours Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy, a Graduate Diploma and Master’s in Adolescent Psychotherapy, and am a qualified Clinical Supervisor.
I am trained in ACT, DBT, Coaching, NLP, and other integrative approaches that bridge psychological insight with practical change.

My background in adolescent psychotherapy deeply informs my work with adults.
For many of us, the patterns of behaviour and the soul wounds that shape our adult lives were formed during adolescence, a time of immense sensitivity, longing, and becoming.

In therapy we often speak about the inner child, but it is often the inner adolescent that carries the shame, defiance, and unmet need to be seen for who we are.
Learning to meet that part of ourselves with understanding is one of the most powerful ways to heal.

Professional memberships:

• Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP)

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

• European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH)

In Essence

The Threshold Practice brings together everything I have learned so far:
the precision of psychotherapy, the compassion of community, and the quiet ecology of being alive in the world.

Every life crosses thresholds.
The task is not to hurry through them,
but to walk them with presence and care.