Hi there, I'm Jill.
I'm a psychotherapist based in Dublin, Ireland.
I work with clients navigating a broad range of mental health struggles, and have a specialist interest in working with leaders, managers, founders managing burnout, performance related stress and anxiety.
I like to work in a way that marries both pragmatism and deeper 'meaning making' to help you navigate life's challenges with greater confidence and trust in yourself.
I consider being a therapist a dream come true and a great privilege. I'd love to work with you.
Who I Work With
For me, the ultimate goal of therapy is to enable discovery, nourishment and expansion of our relationship with ourselves.
I work with adults navigating a wide range of psychological and emotional difficulties, including:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Burnout
- Grief and loss
- Relationship challenges
- Identity uncertainty
- Redundancy
- Periods of life transition
Alongside this broader work, I have a specialist interest in supporting individuals navigating high levels of responsibility in professional settings, including:
- Leadership
- Management
- Founders
In particular, I bring a depth of experience to work with women in these contexts, where identity, self-trust, and systemic challenges often intersect in complex ways.
My Approach
My work is grounded in psychotherapy and informed by clinical training, lived experience, and over a decade working in and alongside leadership roles within corporate settings.
I like to take a person-centred approach and draw predominantly on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as my core modality. In short, this approach allows the creation of a space grounded in openness and curiosity, enabling non-judgemental exploration of whatever challenge you may be facing.
Pragmatic
Practical strategies you can apply to your daily life straight away.
Meaning-Making
Exploring the deeper patterns and stories that shape how you experience the world.
Collaborative
We work together as a team. You're the expert on your life — I bring the therapeutic tools.
Therapy for Leaders
As individuals within organisations move into positions involving people management, leadership, higher stakes decision-making, and accountability for group performance, the conditions around them change. The higher you progress in an organisation, often, the more isolated you become. Opportunities for sharing mental burdens reduce, connections with colleagues morph into a new kind of dynamic, and the weight of responsibility increases. Over time, without appropriate support and intervention, this commonly contributes to burnout, and difficulty regulating stress.
Although this work can support performance, that is not its primary objective. I work with people as whole individuals, not as roles or functions.
I believe there is a gap in how performance-oriented environments account for and protect against the mental and emotional strain they place on individuals. My work sits in that gap, focusing on the mental and emotional impact of sustained responsibility.
Human progress is driven by people who are willing to strive, lead, and carry responsibility. Performance environments ask a great deal of these individuals, yet often fail to acknowledge that they remain human, with finite emotional and psychological capacity. My work is rooted in acknowledging that with higher performance comes higher risk for mental struggle, and those shaping the future require support so they can do so with resilience, clarity, and care for themselves and others.
Services
I work both online and in person in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
I also offer more creative options like park walks if this is more accessible to you and your needs.
Content Corner
Short videos on therapy, mental health, and navigating life's challenges.